The Basque parliament will not close and will return to work in January, delaying a possible electoral advance

The Basque Parliament will start work in January, albeit only for the presentation of Changes to the Children’s Actindirectly delaying the possibility of bringing forward next year’s regional elections to March.

January’s approval concludes that elections will at least no longer take place in March, and that any hypothetical electoral advance will not occur until April, after Easter, at the earliest.

The Council of Spokespersons of the Basque Parliament decided on Thursday to allow the month of January, when the Chamber traditionally closes, although it did this only for the tabling of amendments to the draft law on children and adolescents. This authorization has the vote against the PP.

The deadline for tabling amendments to this law is therefore brought forward from February 6 to January 8, and in this way, if there is an amendment to this law in its entirety, the plenary session to debate it can take place in January. can be finally approved in February.

In addition, tomorrow, Friday before the plenary session, the presentations will be made to discuss two other pending bills, namely that of Energy transition and climate changeand that of Cooperation. Both’s presentations can work without further ado in January, without enabling anything specific to them. The purpose of these moves is to complete the processing of the three laws so that they can be adopted in February.

The indirect consequence is that, with Parliament voting on three laws in February, the elections would no longer take place in March, as had been speculated, as 54 days must elapse between the calling of the elections and the resulting dissolution of Parliament and the day of the vote. .