Madrid (EFE)
This circumstance limits some of the decisions that it can adopt, according to the so-called Government Law, which dates from 1997 and which has undergone various partial revisions since then.
In accordance with this law, the President of the Government may not propose to the King the dissolution of Parliament, nor raise the question of confidence, nor submit to the monarch the call for a consultative referendum.
Nor may the Government approve the bill for the general budget of the State or present other bills to Congress or the Senate.
In addition, the legislative delegations granted by the Cortes Generales will be suspended during the entire time that the Government is in office.
Holidays of the Council of Ministers
The law obliges the outgoing Executive to facilitate the normal development of the formation process of the new Government and the transfer of powers and will limit its management to the ordinary office of public affairs.
It also expressly determines that it must refrain from adopting, except in duly accredited urgent cases or for reasons of general interest whose express accreditation justifies it, any other measures.
But with these limitations, the Government will maintain its powers and there will continue to be meetings of the Council of Ministers every week.
However, due to the holiday period, it will be Sánchez who decides how many weeks he will not meet the members of his Government during the month of August.
The forecast, according to what government sources have informed Efe, is that the last meeting of the Council of Ministers before the holidays will be this Tuesday, July 25, and it will be convened again, foreseeably, in the second half of August.