The Government of Pedro Sánchez will hold two extraordinary meetings of the Council of Ministers on the coming Fridays 13 and 20 November, in the middle of the general election campaign of 29N. The Executive will also keep its ordinary meetings on Tuesdays 17 and 24, so there are still four sessions before Spaniards go to the polls.
The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, has confirmed this Tuesday the schedule through his social networks, where he has advanced that the upcoming meetings will serve to approve new social measures. "More rights, more improvements and more reinforcement of the welfare state, now and in the next 4 years of progressive Government," he wrote.
The Executive has not yet specified what initiatives it will bring to each of the extraordinary Councils, although Sánchez had already signaled his intention to call additional meetings to approve pending measures before the elections.
Four meetings before the polls open
The first extraordinary meeting will take place this Friday 13 November, coinciding with the official start of the election campaign. The second will be held on Friday 20, when the parties will be immersed in the second week of events and rallies.
These appointments will be joined by the ordinary Councils on Tuesday 17 and Tuesday 24 November, the latter just five days before the elections.
The election call does not prevent the Government from continuing to approve initiatives. The Executive retains its ordinary powers until the holding of the election, when it will pass into caretaker functions in accordance with Article 101 of the Constitution.
Although the Cortes are dissolved, the Government may approve royal decree-laws if circumstances of extraordinary and urgent necessity arise. In that case, it is up to the Standing Committee of the Congress to pronounce on their validation.
The four meetings announced will allow the Executive to maintain its regulatory activity during the two central weeks of the campaign. For now, Bolaños has only anticipated that the decisions will be related to new social measures, without detailing their content.