SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Popular Party candidate for the Senate for the Gran Canaria constituency, Sergio Ramos, has stated that with the Sánchez government “families have been reviled, some like the many persecuted, and the single-parents deceived.”
Sergio Ramos pointed out that with the excuse of the approval of a Families Law “sectarian and ideological in its content and which has declined due to the electoral call” no “effective initiatives have been carried out to help families or to solve problems that our country has in terms of birth rates”.
Ramos has insisted that Spanish families “have also remained in the forgotten drawer of the Sánchez government, which has not understood that it is one of the pillars on which our society revolves,” he said.
The candidate explained that the Popular Party, led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has drawn up a family support plan that includes issues such as guaranteeing the right of workers to enjoy a four-month leave before their son reaches eight years, a leave for caregivers of five working days a year, extending maternity and paternity leave to single-parent families to 26 weeks and promoting a bank of hours that employees can manage freely in agreement with the company.
In reference to the birth rate, Ramos stressed that having children “cannot be a luxury”, for which reason his party is committed to four major measures: to reinforce assisted reproduction services in Health; give employers and companies bonuses when they hire a working mother indefinitely; increase the amount and scope of the benefit for dependent children, which may be collected from the fifth month of pregnancy; and increase the family income tax minimum attributed to the second child.
The PP also proposes a specific plan for large families that, among other issues, allows the title of large family to be maintained until the last of the children turns 26 because “it is fair that families do not lose the social bonuses of which have”, sentenced Sergio Ramos.
In the same way, the plan of measures that the PP has prepared advocates that from the fourth child large families be recognized as special category. Regarding Education and Training, he defends opening schools for longer; guarantee the schooling of special education students, and that it is carried out in accordance with the wishes of their parents; as well as guaranteeing free education for children from 0 to 3 years old, co-financed between the central government and the Communities.
