The Government has returned to live on the wire in Congress due to the discrepancies with its partners and has been about to lose the vote to validate the royal decree that modifies the maternity supplement in the pensions and that has large families outraged by the cut out those with more than four children.

It was Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) that saved the Executive from defeat after its parliamentary allies turned their backs on it for different reasons.

And it is that, both those regular partners and parties such as the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos have incisively criticized that the Government has installed itself in the strategy of the "hodgepodge" decrees, for which it presents in an "indivisible pack" of issues that they have nothing to do with each other and then force them to vote jointly in a kind of "blackmail".

In this case, the royal decree mixed the maternity supplement in pensions, changes in the minimum vital income or the recognition of Covid with occupational disease for health workers and other groups, among other issues.

"This way of working is putting a lot of tension in the rope and it can break sooner rather than later. Today has been ready", has warned ERC deputy, Jordi Salvador, who has called to "change things" in this way of working to not to be on the edge of the abyss and gamble on "penalties".

And it is that, it has affected that it is being done "many" times to put together subjects "that have nothing to do" and seeking to corner the parties to a "moral dilemma" that "is not correct" because there are issues that may seem good and others not.

ERC has abstained, as has EH Bildu, while the PNV has voted against it.

A serious warning to the Government, which has suffered until the end to get the minimum vote: 168 votes in favor, 164 against and 16 abstentions.

And Junts being decisive.

As diverse were the subjects contained in the royal decree, diverse have been the motives of the parties to abstain or reject it.

PP, Vox and Ciudadanos have justified their opposition in the consequences against large families, while the nationalist parties disagreed on matters of competence between the central and regional administrations related to the minimum vital income.

In the most controversial matter of the royal decree, which will now be processed as a bill and may receive amendments, is the change in the maternity supplement in pensions, with which mothers who have seen their professional careers reduced for having had children.

he PP has denounced that with the modification of the current regulation an "unprecedented cut" in benefits will be made that affects mothers with more or two children but that, above all, the consequences of economic loss will be even more serious for those who have had four or more.

Vox has accused the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, of "ignoring" and "penalizing" large families and has indicated that the "more children more cuts" is to impose "anti-natality laws."

Citizens, also very critical, applaud the part of the change that will benefit women with only one child, but it has been warned that it cannot be done "at the expense of other women" due to having "more than two children ".

"It does not go through a penalty."

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