The President of the Government will announce a new rule on Tuesday to force all administrations to be accountable to the citizens on the commitments that are being fulfilled
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez will announce this Tuesday a new rule to force all administrations to be accountable to citizens about the acquired commitments that are being fulfilled, as well as those that are still pending.
This was stated by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Francisco Martín Aguirre, in a meeting with journalists this week in which he presented the results of the ‘Complying’ report, which monitors the level of compliance with the commitments acquired by the Executive, which Moncloa places in the 66.7%.
Thus, he pointed out that the idea of the Government goes through approve a rule that makes it mandatory for all administrations to carry out an accountability exercise similar to that carried out by the Government from the beginning of this legislature. He also specified that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, would make an announcement along these lines next Tuesday.
The Chief Executive will hold an appearance this Tuesday in which he will also will carry out the traditional balance at the end of the year and will foreseeably present the new package of anti-crisis measures in which measures are expected to contain the price of food.
Governments, forced to explain themselves
Martín Aguirre has avoided providing details about this new regulation since it will be Sánchez who communicates it, but he has indicated that the objective of the Executive is “clear” and it happens because Governments have to be obliged to explain to citizens how they are progressing in fulfilling their promises.
They also have to do so, as indicated, in a systematic, periodic and comparable manner. “We believe that it is a very significant progress in democratic quality,” she pointed out. They want, therefore, to extend to the regional and local governments an exercise similar to the one already carried out by La Moncloa.
When asked if the Government intends to transfer this idea to the PP, since they would be obliged to carry it out if they win the 2023 general elections, Martín Aguirre has indicated that it would not be understood that another party with an aspiration to govern did not share it.
About thirty new commitments
Regarding the report itself, The Government now considers 66.7% of the commitments made to have been fulfilled, 1513 in total. In the last year, 32 new targets have been added to the list, stemming from the war in Ukraine and the measures announced at the State of the Nation Debate held this summer.
The Executive divides its commitments, according to their origin, in Sánchez’s inauguration speech, the coalition government agreement between PSOE and Unidas Podemos, as well as the commitments related to the Transformation and Resilience Recovery Plan and other manifestations and public statements that result in new promises.
Likewise, the Secretary General of the Presidency specified that the “decayed” commitments, that is, those that the Government already assumes that they will not be fulfilled, continue to be 12the same as in the last exercise presented in December 2021.
sedition and embezzlement
Regarding the reform of the crime of sedition, Aguirre has specified that it is a promise made by the President of the Government in an interview in January 2020 and since then it has been incorporated into the report.
At the moment in which the parliamentary procedure is completed, it will become part of the list of objectives achieved, although the crime has been eliminated ‘de facto’ and replaced by another one of aggravated public disorder.
However, the change in embezzlement has not been incorporated at any time into the report because, as Aguirre has argued, it was not a promise from the Government but an initiative that has been incorporated into the processing of a law.