When the Congress of Deputies worked at cruise speed, plenary used on Thursdays. That is the day that is reserved to discuss and vote the initiatives that start from the government. However, the parliamentary block has led many ministries not to bring their laws to debate, so as not to lose voting. Therefore, there is almost never full on Thursdays.
But immobility is not there. It is no longer just that the laws are not being taken to debate, it is that many ministries do not even work to elaborate them. The reason has analyzed all the initiatives approved in the Council of Ministers throughout this 2025, and the most of the ministries have not approved a single law, or a draft law, or a royal-law in everything that goes for a year.
In total, there are 13 portfolios that have simply clouded when working in initiatives that may need the support of the Congress of Deputies. These are foreign issues, defense, science, education, economy, agriculture, inclusion, industry and tourism, culture, territorial policy, equality, youth and housing.
The only thing that have limited themselves to bringing to the Council of Ministers these portfolios are real minor decrees (which serve to develop the regulation of a law or grant a scholarship, for example, but that do not need to be validated by Congress), agreements (mostly administrative issues) and reports. But even within that generalized inactivity, there are more or less productive wallets.
Of the total, the ministry that has led to the Council of Ministers this 2025 is that of Dwelling. He has only approved nine throughout the year; Two reports, five agreements and two reais minor decrees. This lack of action clashes frontally with the argument that housing is one of the main priorities of the government and that wants to shield it as the fifth pillar of the welfare state.
This legislature, Minister Isabel Rodríguez has tried twice to carry out a law of the soil. The first time, he withdrew it from the vote not to lose it. The second, took it and lost it. Even parliamentary partners voted against. That last vote was earlier this year and, since then, housing has not elaborated any measure, despite the rampant crisis that Spain is experiencing. The Government’s argument revolves more around blaming the PP for not applying tensioning areas in some parts of the country.
The second least productive ministry is that of Youth. Although it has had enough political focus, with the minors migrants from the Canary Islands, for example, many of the measures it could have promoted have finally gone through the presidency or territorial policy, so it is blurred in statistics.
And the least productive third is Equalityanother flag for the PSOE that does not start. The minister, Ana Redondo, has announced that she will present a law to abolish prostitution after the various scandals in her party, but for now little more is known. What is known is that it does not have parliamentary support to carry it forward, so run the risk of being another toast to the sun.