Madrid (EFE) and Migration and the party of Ínigo Errejón.
The Minister of Inclusion, José Luis Escrivá, and the spokesman for Más País in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, met yesterday afternoon to agree on the technical work to implement the future permit to accompany people at risk of suicide.
The leader of Más País will report on this agreement at a press conference at 10:30 a.m. in the Congress of Deputies.
The Government will analyze this new type of work permit with employers and unions so that people “in specific situations of imminent risk of suicide” can be “accompanied and cared for.”
The permit, according to the parliamentary proposal, would last a maximum of fifteen days and would not imply a decrease in the salary for the companion.
Suicide remained in 2022 as the leading external cause of death, with 4,003 deaths.
According to sources from Más País, the evidence shows that close accompaniment by people around them is one of the most important tools to help people at risk of suicide.
Más País, convinced that the support against suicide comes out this legislature
The leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has been convinced that the Government will approve permits to accompany people at risk of suicide before the end of the legislature, since he is confident that the agreement reached with the Ministry of Social Security will be endorsed by employers and unions.
“This has to come out yes or yes before the legislature ends,” Errejón said at a press conference in Congress, since his formation closed on Monday afternoon with Minister José Luis Escrivá the technical work to put into measures such as sick leave of one week extendable to two for accompanying people who are at risk of suicide.
“There is a lot of understanding with Social Security to be able to apply it as soon as possible”, said Errejón, who recalled that the diagnosis of suicide risk will come from a doctor and that the permits for companions will be paid regardless of the economic situation or employment of that person.
Errejón has appreciated that it was his formation that two years ago opened a national debate on mental health in Parliament despite receiving “half-mocking” comments and recalled that in Spain eleven people take their lives every day: “His boarding is a priority.”