Spain's Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, has said his department will "accelerate" so that the royal decrees on MIR and on tobacco, together with the statutes of the Public Health Agency, can be approved.
According to the newspaper El Mundo, the early election has brought down the framework statute, medicines and patients legislation in parliament, cutting the legislature short.
Padilla nonetheless defended how he ran the ministry through that abrupt end, telling El Mundo:
"No one can reproach us for not having tried."
