The new session in Congress starts with a surprise.

The first plenary session will be held on Monday and not on Tuesday, as is usual, because the Government has had time over it and did not have time to validate an extremely important royal decree: the extension of protection measures against Covid that guarantees that no one with vulnerability can be evicted or cut off electricity, water and gas supplies.

These are some of the star measures of its so-called "social shield".

The deadline to validate that Royal Decree 16/2021, which was approved on August 3 by the Council of Ministers, is on September 13, so the Bureau of Congress has been forced today to advance the Plenary Session one day to prevent it from decaying.

Article 86 of the Constitution establishes that Congress has to validate or repeal royal decrees within a maximum period of 30 business days.

Otherwise, it would automatically decay and its effect would cease to be in effect.

To avoid this, the deputies will meet on a day as unusual for them as it is a Monday.

Day on which the plenary session will start, and which will then continue, as is normal, until Thursday.

These last-minute rush could have been avoided if the Plenary had been convened this week, but that would have also implied a return of control to the Government.

And bring forward the confrontation with the opposition by one week, coinciding with the rise in the price of electricity.

The PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has reprimanded the president, Pedro Sánchez, precisely today for "fleeing" the control of the Government in Congress and having only come to the Chamber to hold "an anti-PP rally" in front of his deputies and senators in a meeting with the Socialist Group.

A very relevant decree

Royal Decree 16/2021 is very relevant because it extends until October 31 the measures of the so-called "social shield", which expired on August 9.

The Minister Spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, presented it at a press conference in Moncloa as a result of the Government's commitment to protecting the most vulnerable in the field of energy supplies, housing and care for victims of gender violence .

Those are precisely the most outstanding measures.

The guarantee that no one will have their electricity, water or gas cut off if they are in a vulnerable situation or that they will not be evicted either.

Similarly, services for the protection and assistance to victims of gender-based violence will continue to be considered essential.

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