The PP recovers its plan against wildfires from last year and will take it to Congress as a bill proposal.

As of today, there is not enough official information to specify the exact stage of parliamentary processing of the PP's bill on fire prevention. What sources do show is that the PP registered a “law to strengthen fire prevention” in the Congress and that, at least until the end of 2025, the Popular Party itself denounced that the Congress had been “delaying the processing” of that initiative for months. Everything points to a bill admitted and formally in process, but without substantive progress and likely stalled in initial phases (consideration and/or amendment period). Without direct access at this moment to the specific parliamentary file (case number), it is not possible to go further without resorting to conjecture.

What we know for sure about the PP initiative

The only direct reference to the “law proposed by the PP to strengthen fire prevention” comes from an official note from the Popular Party itself in Brussels. In that communication, MEP Carmen Crespo literally states that:

• “The Congress has been delaying the processing of the law proposed by the PP to strengthen fire prevention for months, a necessary measure to protect our forests and reduce risks against forest emergencies.”

This statement appears in a PP press release dated August 26, 2025, in which Crespo criticizes the Government's management and explicitly mentions that legislative text registered by her party in Congress as a fire prevention law pending progress in its processing. It can be consulted in the PP's own note on forest policy.

Therefore, at the end of summer 2025:

• The PP's bill on fire prevention was registered in Congress.
• The PP already considered it “in process,” but denounced that the lower chamber kept it blocked or very slowed down.

In parallel, the Popular Party's underlying political plan was embodied in a package of 50 measures against fires, presented by Alberto Núñez Feijóo and detailed by the newspaper Demócrata in an extensive analysis about the plan of 50 measures. Additionally, the Senate approved a PP motion that included much of those proposals, demanding a “Comprehensive Plan for aid, recovery, and fire prevention,” as the party itself reported in another note on the Senate motion.

However, neither the PP documents nor the Demócrata pieces reviewed detail the specific case number of the state bill nor the technical “status” (whether it is in “consideration,” “amendments,” “committee,” etc.) in the Congress database.

Why the parliamentary phase cannot be specified further

To answer precisely a question like yours, it would be essential to identify:

• The full official title of the bill as it appears in the Congress Bulletin.
• Its case number (format 122/0000X in Congress, and the corresponding one if it had reached the Senate).

With those data, the official file of the initiative would clearly show if the bill:

• Is still pending consideration.
• Has already been considered and is in the amendment period (with successive extensions, something very common in the current legislature).
• Has moved to committee or working group.
• Has been sent to the Senate or even concluded (approved or lapsed).

In the available information, that file or case number does not appear, nor is there a parliamentary or Demócrata news item indicating, for example, “Congress considers the PP's bill on fire prevention” or “the amendment period opens for the PP's fire bill,” as happens with other laws (for example, anti-squatting or those related to national symbols) that Demócrata follows in detail.

How you can check the exact phase yourself

Since this is a very specific procedural question, the only reliable way to know today what phase it is in is to go directly to the official records:

• In the Congress initiative search engine (section “Parliamentary activity” at [link]), filtering by:
  • Type: Bill.
  • Group: Popular Parliamentary Group.
  • Keywords: “forest fires,” “fire prevention,” etc.
• Once located, the initiative's file will show the current “status” (for example, “Amendments,” “In Committee,” “Sent to Senate,” “Concluded,” etc.).

In summary: we know that this PP bill on fire prevention exists, that it was already registered and formally in process in Congress, and that the PP denounced its delay. But, with the available information, the specific phase (consideration, amendments, committee…) in which it currently is cannot be identified without direct access to the official parliamentary file.

As Secretary General of the Popular Party, Miguel Tellado serves as the party's “number two” under Alberto Núñez Feijóo and leads the General Secretariat and the Organization area of the party. His responsibilities focus on coordinating the internal structure, activating the electoral machinery, and ensuring that the political line set by the presidency translates into strategy, messaging, and personnel. The consulted sources do not provide detailed articles from the PP Statutes, but they do offer a fairly clear portrait of his practical functions and how his team has been configured.

Position in the PP organizational chart

According to the leadership review by Demócrata in “New leadership in the PP: this is Feijóo’s team”, Tellado moves from spokesperson in Congress to taking charge of the General Secretariat and Organizational tasks, which “ratifies him as the president’s number two.” He is, therefore, the figure who articulates the party’s day-to-day, below Feijóo but above the other deputy secretaries and functional areas.

The same newspaper highlights in the political profile of the Feijóo–Tellado duo that he has become the “go-to man” for the Galician leader by occupying the General Secretariat after years as his right hand in Galicia, according to “Tellado and Feijóo: a journey with no return ticket”. The Popular Party itself, in announcing his appointment as Secretary General, emphasizes his “organic” experience, as opposed to Ester Muñoz’s parliamentary experience, in the party’s website note [link].

Organization and strategy leadership

A central element of his responsibilities is the integration of the Organization area within the General Secretariat. According to the analysis by Redacción Médica, Feijóo’s internal reorganization implies that “Miguel Tellado will integrate the Organization area into the Popular Party’s General Secretariat with the objective” – a text the medium directly links to preparing future electoral cycles. Demócrata also explains that Feijóo’s team reform seeks to activate the PP’s “electoral machinery,” placing Tellado at the center of that mechanism.

In practice, this translates into responsibilities over:

• Design and supervision of the internal structure: defining the General Secretariat and the deputy secretariats, as detailed in the piece on internal appointments [link].
• Strategic and polling planning: the Board of Directors approves, under his umbrella, a Strategy and Planning area, with profiles specialized in data and audiences.
• Coordination with sectoral areas: working jointly with deputy secretariats such as Sectoral Coordination (Alma Ezcurra) or Health and Social Policy (Carmen Fúnez).

Territorial and parliamentary coordination

Another key aspect of his responsibilities is territorial coordination. In an official PP note, “The PP strengthens unity of action with autonomous parliaments…”, a meeting in Génova is detailed where “the Popular Party’s Secretary General, Miguel Tellado,” meets with autonomous parliamentary spokespersons alongside the Deputy Secretary of Regional Policy. In fact, a substantial part of his role is to align the action of autonomous and local groups with the national strategy, both in legislative agendas and political messaging.

This coordination role has also been seen in specific episodes covered by Demócrata: his involvement in the PP’s strategy in Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura, his leadership in the party’s response to crises such as the Adamuz accident or fiscal and health debates (for example, pieces on his criticism of the fiscal decree or the management of the railway tragedy: [link], [link]).

Execution of the political line

The sources do not reproduce the Spanish PP Statutes, but Demócrata explains, regarding the Secretary General of the European People's Party, that the responsibilities of a general secretariat are usually linked to the “organizational apparatus and the daily execution of the political line,” directing the executive’s work and supervising the performance of its officials ([link]). Although this refers to the EPP, the scheme fits the role that the PP itself and Demócrata attribute to Tellado in Génova.

Added to this is his function as the main political spokesperson of the leadership: his statements on pacts with Vox ([link]), on the reform of regional statutes ([link], [link]) or on major electoral events ([link]) show that he concentrates the responsibility of setting the PP’s official narrative against the Government and its partners.

In summary, Miguel Tellado’s responsibilities as Secretary General combine organic command, control of organization and electoral strategy, territorial coordination, and a very visible role in executing and communicating the political line designed by Feijóo. No further information is available in the consulted sources about the article-by-article detail of his statutory functions.

Other contexts where his role or the functioning of the General Secretariat are reflected can be seen in these pieces from Demócrata and other sources: [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link], [link].

To create in Spain a hypothetical “National Registry of Arsonists” (people convicted of arson crimes), it would be essential to establish it through a law of organic rank, strictly respect the fundamental rights of the Constitution (honor, privacy, data protection, and social reintegration), and fit it within the already existing system of criminal records (Central Registry of Convicts and other support registries for Justice). Additionally, it should comply with the data protection framework (GDPR, Organic Law 3/2018, and Organic Law 7/2021) and the regulations on judicial registries and files of the Ministry of the Interior. In practice, the legally viable model would resemble more a technical subregistry, with very restricted access for judges, prosecutors, and Security Forces, than a “public list” of convicted persons.

1. Constitutional basis and need for organic law

A registry of this type directly affects several fundamental rights of the Spanish Constitution, in particular:

• Article 18 CE: right to honor, privacy, and, in its section 4, the right to data protection, which orders that “the law shall limit the use of informatics to guarantee honor and personal and family privacy” (text in the Spanish Constitution).
• Article 10 CE: dignity of the person as the foundation of the political order.
• Article 25.2 CE: orientation of custodial sentences towards re-education and social reintegration, which acts as a limit to registries that eternalize stigma.

Since it affects fundamental rights and the processing of data related to criminal convictions, the creation of a specific registry of arsonists requires an organic law (art. 81 CE), just as happens with the general regulation of data protection and criminal records.

2. Personal data protection framework

The processing of data on convictions for arson crimes is subject to an especially strict regime:

• Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR): considers criminal convictions as special category data that can only be processed under reinforced guarantees.
• Organic Law 3/2018, on Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (LO 3/2018): develops the GDPR and art. 18.4 CE in Spain.
• Organic Law 7/2021, on the protection of personal data processed for the purposes of prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of criminal offenses and execution of criminal sanctions (LO 7/2021): specifically regulates the processing of criminal data by competent authorities.

From this framework derive key requirements:

• Strict purpose: only prevention, investigation, and prosecution of arson crimes and execution of penalties/security measures linked to that scope.
• Clear legal basis in organic law, with delimitation of data categories, recipients, and retention periods.
• Very limited access (never a “public” registry): judges, prosecutors, justice administration lawyers, Security Forces, and, if applicable, civil protection, under the terms set by law.
• Cancellation and deletion periods coordinated with the cancellation of criminal records, consistent with reintegration principles.

3. Fit within the existing system of criminal registries

In Spain, there is already a system of criminal registries and support to the Justice Administration, regulated by Royal Decree 95/2009, of February 6, on the System of administrative registries supporting the Justice Administration (RD 95/2009). Within this framework is integrated the Central Registry of Convicts, among others.

Additionally, specialized registries have been created, such as the Central Registry of Sexual Offenders, regulated by Royal Decree 1110/2015, of December 11 (RD 1110/2015), which serves as a technical and legal precedent: centralized registry, not public, with restricted access and very specific purposes (for example, controlling access to professions involving minors).

A legally reasonable “National Registry of Arsonists” should:

• Be created as a new administrative registry supporting Justice within the RD 95/2009 system, or as a submodule/specific code within the Central Registry of Convicts itself.
• Articulate its creation through an organic law that modifies criminal/procedural regulations and enables the development regulation.
• Provide coordination with the exchange of criminal records in the EU (Organic Law 7/2014, on exchange of criminal record information, LO 7/2014).

4. Police files and Ministry of the Interior

In the police field, there is already a regulation of personal data files of the Ministry of the Interior, through Order INT/1202/2011, of May 4, and its amendments (Order INT/1202/2011). This order is expressly issued under art. 20 of the former Organic Law 15/1999 and today must be interpreted in light of LO 3/2018 and LO 7/2021.

For an arsonists registry, it would be necessary to:

• Regulate the general file through organic law and royal decree integrating it into the judicial system.
• Adapt or create associated police files through ministerial order, complying with information, security, and access control requirements.

5. State–Autonomous Communities competencies and material limits

The competence over criminal and procedural legislation and the organization of criminal registries is state-level (Title VIII CE and Organic Law of the Judiciary), so the registry would have to be state and centralized, although Autonomous Communities with police or emergency management powers could access the information under the terms set by law.

In any case, the main material limits would be:

• Prohibition of turning it into a stigmatizing and public registry, incompatible with art. 18 CE and the reintegration function of art. 25.2 CE.
• Need for proportionality: the scope of the registry (included crimes, duration of registration, data transfers) must be justified in terms of necessity and adequacy to protection against arson.

Therefore, it is legally possible to configure a specific national registry linked to convictions for arson, but only under a very guarantee-based architecture: enabling organic law, fit within the criminal registry system, restricted access, clear cancellation periods, and full submission to the reinforced regime of criminal data protection.