Education warns that the legal delay will keep the Miquel Roldán case open next school year

PalmThe Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, has lamented that the modification of the article of the Law for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents (LOPIVI) to prevent people convicted of crimes against minors from working as teachers has been included within a broader reform that will not be in force for the next academic year.

After participating in the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Son Ferriol Learning Camp, Vera has criticized that the Balearic Islands depend on the “legislative engineering of Pedro Sánchez” to resolve the case of the teacher convicted of harassment Miquel Roldán, in reference to the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

Accelerate processing

The minister recalled that the Government asked the Minister of Childhood, Sira Rego, for an urgent modification focused solely on this article, with the aim of it being processed by a single reading in the Congress of Deputies and thus accelerating its approval. “As the minister has done it, in September we will not have the problem solved,” Vera warned. Along these lines, he remarked that the Ministry will continue to insist that the bill approved in the Parliament, which calls for modifying only this specific point, be processed.

As explained, it is foreseen that this initiative will be approved before the end of the current session and will subsequently be sent to Congress. Likewise, he asked the president of the chamber, Francina Armengol, to facilitate a quick processing. “At the latest, by September or October we would have it,” stated the minister, who insisted that the procedure proposed by the Spanish government will be “much slower” and will not allow the situation to be resolved with the desired speed.