A week after the floods on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, which hit the province of Valencia particularly hard, where there have been at least more than two hundred deaths, the Congress Council focused its usual meeting on the need to provide response to these floods. affected by the storm. The President of the Lower House, Francina Armengol, attended the meeting with a proposal under her arm which was unanimously approved: the institution will allocate thirty million euros for direct aid to people affected by isolated depression at high levels (DANA The weekly meeting of the La Table, the governing body of the Congress, has carried out a monograph on the decline of cold in Valencia and other provinces of Spain and the rest of the issues, as reported sources close to the Presidency of the Lower House, will be discussed in a second meeting to be held later, electronically Armengol herself announced the measures approved by the commission for the appointment of the new directors of Radio Televisión. Española (RTVE) after Vox deputy Manuel Mariscal requested its suspension: “This has nothing to do with the Spaniards who are suffering from an immense tragedy.” The President of Congress, who heads said commission, then defended the need to maintain the essential parliamentary activity and welcomed the aid approved by the Council: fifteen million euros which will be given from the rest of the Lower House and another fifteen which come from the budget of the Cortes Générales, which also depend on the Senate. On Thursday of last week, Vox wrote to the body chaired by Armengol to request that the money for “consumable” expenses be allocated to those affected by DANA, such as, according to this party, the expenses for translators from Spanish towards co-official languages. The Congress will not stop investing in the interpretation of Catalan, Basque and Galician, a commitment of Armengol to the separatists, but it will send this sum of money to the victims of the cold drop. On the other hand, the Council accepted that deputies from provinces hit by DANA could exceptionally telework so that they could combine their parliamentary work with the help they can offer on the ground. Armengol has already suspended his official trip to the Summit this Monday. The G20 parliaments in Brazil have convened the Table held this Tuesday and a meeting of the Council of Spokespersons which will take place on Thursday. There, your honors will discuss the agenda for next week’s plenary session, where the questions postponed from last Wednesday will accumulate and, probably, the deputies will be allowed to clarify, refine or modify the questions they will address to the Government during the control session. On Wednesday, President Armengol, supported by the majority of the Council of Spokespersons, decided to suspend the monitoring session and pending votes on non-legislative proposals and motions, as well as the planned tribute events for the victims of the civil war and. the Franco dictatorship last week. However, against the criteria of the PP and Vox, he chose to maintain the validation of the royal decree-law which ensures the government and its partners control of the board of directors of RTVE, which still had more than half of the allotted time limit. must be approved by Congress. This week, consultative sessions take place with candidates for public entity administrator positions.
