Spain’s Minister for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Bañez, proposed this week that the country agrees to a social and political pact to end the standard working day at 6pm.
She also recalled that the proposal to change Spain’s time zone and ending work days at 6pm are part of the programme of the People’s Party (PP) that was pushed before the elections on 26 June.
Mariano Rajoy, leader of the conservative People’s Party, returned to office as Prime Minister in October following 10 months of bickering, failed deals and two inconclusive general elections.
Should Spain put its clocks back to be on a par with Portugal it would bring to an end a 70-year-old Francoist legacy; Spanish dictator Francisco Franco turned the clocks forward in 1942 in solidarity with his allies, Nazi Germany.