The spokesperson for the Junta de Extremadura in functions, Elena Manzano, has highlighted that the decree-law agreed with Vox evidences a “total predisposition” to “continue advancing” in the community and to place it “where it always had to be”.
This Friday, in an extraordinary meeting, the Governing Council has given the green light to a decree-law agreed with Vox that modifies the Law on the Regulation of the Transition Process between Governments of Extremadura, with the purpose of adjusting the situation of guardan acting Executive to the “real needs” of the citizenry.
Asked by journalists about whether this approval brings closer a possible government agreement with Vox, Manzano has insisted that what is relevant is that public services continue to be guaranteed and that Extremadura “continues to grow”.
"All the legal guarantees"
The also acting Minister of Finance and Public Administration has stressed that the decree-law ratified this Friday has “all legal guarantees”, as well as favorable opinions from the legal profession, and that it is “perfectly legal”.
In this regard, he explained that an acting government is enabled to approve this type of regulations in order to guarantee the continuity of services, and that, in this case, the decree-law modifies a regulation that imposed “very important” limitations on the normal functioning of public services.
“That regional law is even much more restrictive than the state one and than the one existing in most autonomous communities and in this way what it will allow us is to continue with what is important,” Manzano remarked, who mentioned, among other issues, the possibility of approving agreements, executing public funds or calling for public examinations and processes that “have already been agreed upon and are very necessary.”
The importance of services
Manzano has also recalled that law 4/2015, promoted by the government of the 'popular' José Antonio Monago, was approved in a “specific temporal moment”, with elections that used to be held around the month of May.
“Think that what has happened this year is exceptional, that they are an election call in a month in December, and that implies that we start a budgetary exercise, a new exercise, without that very important tool, that we start in a starting situation and with a very restrictive law that could prevent ensuring what is most important for our Government, which is that provision of public services to the people of Extremadura”, he/she has pointed out.