Spain’s Socialists in 2008: 4 weeks of paternity leave. The law passed in 2009, but the four weeks only came in 2017
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)February 2008 · PSOE programme for the 2008 general election
«We will extend paternity leave to 4 weeks.»
A law on four weeks was passed in October 2009 but took effect only on 1 January 2017; until then paternity leave stayed at 13 days.
Fact: BOE, Ley 9/2009 de ampliación de la duración del permiso de paternidad (консолидированный текст)
The law was to take effect in 2011, but budget laws kept postponing it. All those years paternity leave stayed at 13 days.
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Spain introduced paternity leave in 2007: 13 days. Before the 2008 election the Socialist party promised to extend it to four weeks, and won the election.
First the words: who said it, when and where, verbatim (translations are ours). Answer Yes or No, or just open the answer: the stamp is the outcome, below it what came of it. On the chart the dark line is the fact year by year up to the deadline, the pale one after it; the blue dashed line is the promised number from the year of the words to the deadline, the light band the time the promise gave; the ring on the line is when it was said, the ring in the stamp’s colour the fact in the deadline year, beside it how far it landed from the goal. The numbers on the right are the scale.
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), PSOE programme for the 2008 general election quote
«Ampliaremos a 4 semanas la duración del permiso de paternidad.» — We will extend paternity leave to 4 weeks.
PSOE, Programa Electoral Elecciones Generales 2008 (PDF, копия Internet Archive)
- What happened late
A law on four weeks was passed in October 2009 but took effect only on 1 January 2017; until then paternity leave stayed at 13 days.
BOE, Ley 9/2009 de ampliación de la duración del permiso de paternidad (консолидированный текст)
Quote: the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party 2008 election programme (psoe.es). Fact: Law 9/2009 extending paternity leave, consolidated text in the Official State Gazette (boe.es). Outcome: «came true» — the promised number reached by the deadline («about» within 5%), an event happened before the end of the year promised; «exceeded» — with room to spare; «nearly» — short by no more than 10%; «late» — reached, but after the deadline; «did not come true» — not reached; «came true, then undone» — reached, then reversed. The deadline is the end of the year named.
The last postponement, to 1 January 2017, was made by the People’s Party government. In 2019 paternity leave was extended further, to 16 weeks by 2021; that is a separate claim of the set.
A question for this picture
What counts as keeping a promise: the law passed or the day it took effect?