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The PSOE rectifies the refusal to equalize the career of hospital researchers with the rest of scientists


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The Socialist Parliamentary Group in Congress has decided to withdraw two individual votes to the draft Science Law which will be voted on tomorrow in the plenary session of the Lower House to send it to the Senate, in order to withdraw two amendments incorporated into the text without socialist support, referring to the stabilization of university research staff Yet the linking public spending on R&D to GDP.

The PdeCAT had warned this Tuesday that the PSOE wanted to eliminate from the Science Law the provision referring to the stabilization of the career of university research staff in the National Health System and that went ahead only with the vote against the Socialists. In addition, the Socialist Group had presented another separate vote to withdraw an amendment to the PP approved in the same process to ensure public funding for R&D by linking it to GDP.

Sources from the Socialist Group have confirmed to Europa Press that they have finally decided to withdraw both particular votes from the text, so that tomorrow, if the text goes ahead, it will be sent to the Senate with both changes incorporated, although they have not been endorsed by the PSOE. However, there will still be parliamentary procedure in the Upper House, where modifications to the text can be reintroduced.

Precisely, the Spanish Association for Cancer Research (ASEICA), the National Association of Hospital Researchers (ANIH), the Association for the Study of Reproductive Biology (ASEBIR) and the Foundation for Excellence and Quality in Oncology (ECO) have requested this Wednesday to the Ministry of Science a comprehensive review of the draft Science Law or its withdrawal.

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« This Law is not the Law that Spain needs. There are many aspects such as lack of funding, lack of competitiveness and long-term plans that are not resolved, but that could have been improved with many of the amendments presented and not approved”, they explain from ASEICA.

These learned societies lament that only eleven new amendments and seven compromises of the more than 400 presented will be approved by the parliamentary groups during the proceedings of the Presentation and Commission that precede the debate of the text in the plenary session of the Lower House.

In addition, they warned of the possibility that the two aforementioned amendments would end up being withdrawn from the text, which will ultimately be maintained. In any case, despite the fact that the PSOE has rectified its decision and withdrawn the particular votes, they criticize other aspects of the law beyond those two amendments that they consider “essential” to keep within the text. For this reason, with a view to tomorrow’s debate, they ask for the approval of various amendments presented by the parliamentary groups.

Specifically, they want to eliminate the «discrimination« to the Spanish PhD researchers who carry out their activity abroad; improve the hiring modalities for Science to alleviate the “disaster” that the Labor Reform entails in research centers and public universities; avoid the obligation of the ‘previous reports‘ in scientific-technical contracts; o consider technicians and managers as part of the staff working in science; and they call to dignify predoctoral contracts.

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Also, they want the S&T Advisory Council depend on the Presidency of the Government and issue mandatory reports on any legislation that affects science, among other aspects that they consider can be improved in the text with the incorporation of amendments that are still alive for the debate that will take place this Thursday.

For all these reasons, ASEICA, ANIH, ASEIBIR and the ECO Foundation state that this Law is not the one needed by the system of ScienceTechnology and Spanish Innovation, for which they publicly request “its profound review”.

Finally, they ask that a new period of interlocution that allows reviewing the proposals presented by large associations and entities that represent the scientific community (in public research organizations, hospital centers, and universities), so that their voice reaches and becomes effective in the Council of Ministers and the Congress of the deputies.

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