The President of the Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijooconfirmed this Monday that, as ABC has advanced, he will present the proposal of a new conciliation law to the Congress of Deputies during this month of September to guarantee that the Education from 0 to 3 years is free throughout Spain, after the success achieved in the implementation of the project defended by Carlos Mazón in the Valencian Community and that other autonomous governments of the PP have already implemented in Galicia or Castile and León.
This was announced on Monday by the leader of the “popular” group during a visit to the Nuestra Escuela Garabatos nursery school in Alicantein which he was accompanied by the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón; as well as by the party’s deputy secretary for Health and Education, Ester Muñoz, and the Valencian Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira.
Feijóo took advantage of his visit to Alicante to highlight the educational work of the Regional Executive chaired by Mazón, which in just one year has managed to implement free education from 0 to 3 years in public and private schools, which responds to a electoral commitment which was born just twelve months after the reconquest of the Palau de la Generalitat.
“This is a step with no turning back.“The welfare state starts here and free education is an obligation to favor the greatest drivers of the country and return the effort they pay through their taxes,” Feijóo stressed in his speech to the media.
The PP leader assured that the government had “given up on legislating” because “it does not have a majority in Congress” and said that the PP would try to “catch up”. Thus, it was proposed as a short-term objective to present to Congress this same month of September a new law that will serve to advance and guarantee the free first cycle of early childhood education, which includes children from 0 to 3 years old. , in all educational centers in Spain, as agreed by the popular formation of the Cordoba Declaration and this was reflected in all their electoral programs.
In this regard, he argued that the PP’s proposal implies a challenge to the government of Pedro Sánchez and that the conciliation measure is Co-financed at 50% between the Central Executive and the autonomous communities“For the General Budgets, this represents 2 billion euros, plus an additional 2,000 million from the autonomies, we will achieve a before and after in the education of our country,” stressed the Galician leader.
Mazón praises the “pioneer”
For his part, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, expressed his pride in the flagship measure of his educational project for his legislature and recalled that Feijóo was the “pioneer” in the application of free education from 0 to 3 years during his term before the Xunta de Galicia.
“Now education is universal in the Valencian Community,” added the freedom of choice“, not only on the choice of centers but also on the moment, because we do not choose when we are born,” said the regional president, who recalled other initiatives for the current school year such as the return of the subject Music in secondary school classes or the reinforcement of the hours of mathematics to the detriment of the “ideology” that was taught in schools under the previous government of the socialist Ximo Puig.
