The PSOE has decided to refrigerate the Animal Welfare Bill due to the clear differences with United Podemos regarding the treatment that hunting dogs should have in said regulation and given the doubts as to how this situation would be resolved after the failed experience that he already lived last week in a similar situation with Trans Law.

This Tuesday was going to be a key day to find out what the future of the law was going to be, but the PSOE has forced, by means of an SMS sent early in the morning, the revocation of the Social Rights Commission of Congress, where they were to be debated and vote on the amendments and the opinion made by the presentation.

This new delay has angered both the Ministry of Social Rights, led by

Ione Belarra

, and the parliamentary group of United We Can, who fear that the Animal Welfare Law will end up stranded in a "limbo" due to the difficulty of reaching an agreement.

In fact, if the commission had gone ahead, there was a chance that for the first time a government-sponsored law would have failed to pass through Congress.

Unidas Podemos complains that it found out this morning and that its partner in the Government has made the decision to suspend the commission "unilaterally", without even consulting them beforehand.

The Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda,

Lilith Vestrynge

, has denounced that the PSOE is putting the law "very at risk" and has accused the Socialists of placing themselves "on the side of those who mistreat, beat and torture dogs" for their defense of an amendment in which they remove these animals from the protection provided by the law.

The PSOE justifies that domestic animals should be separated on the one hand and those used in production tasks on the other.

In statements in Congress, Vestrynge has warned the PSOE of the temptation to rely on the PP because the socialist amendment affects the "heart" of the law promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights.

Hence, he has asked the Socialists for "responsibility" to find a solution to a problem generated by his proposal, which he attributes to its impact on the regional and municipal elections due to the weight of hunting in certain communities.

For his part, the deputy of United We Can,

Juantxo López de Uralde

, who also heads Alianza Verde, has urged the PSOE to urgently decide whether to fight against animal abuse or if, on the contrary, it stands with those who "hinder any progress " in that sense.

The "ball is in your court", he has warned him, and his will be the responsibility of "what happens with the law".

The Animal Welfare Law was intended to be approved before the end of the year, but now everything indicates that parliamentary work cannot be concluded until January at the earliest.

If the clash over the hunting dogs, the fact of the matter, gets to unlock at some point.

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