The Prime Minister goes into campaign. And he does it with an announcement that has arrived just hours after he landed in Spain after meeting with Joe Biden, president of the United States, at the White House, and before participating in what is his first meeting on the tour with which he will tour Spain before the May 28 elections. Pedro Sánchez has promised to establish the right to be forgotten oncology immediately, already in the month of June.

This has been transferred to various associations in the fight against cancer, with which he has met in Seville, where this morning he stars in an act with Antonio Muñoz, Seville mayor who is at stake for re-election, and Juan Espadas, secretary general of the federation andalusian socialist. Among others, some of the organizations that have attended the meeting have been the Spanish Association against Cancer, the Spanish Federation of Parents of Children with Cancer or the Spanish Group of Cancer Patients. As Moncloa later reported, the president told them that “it makes no sense that, after having suffered a serious illness”, patients are penalized “with more burdensome conditions”.

The right to be forgotten oncology, which seeks that people who have suffered from cancer do not have to justify their history when taking out life insurance, buying a house or requesting a loan, was one of the main demands of the affected groups and, also of Europe, which had asked Member States to include it in their legislation before 2025. Sánchez's intention is to implement it as early as June.

The Government plans to approve a legislative initiative in the Council of Ministers that will declare void “all clauses based on cancer history that exclude or discriminate when contracting products or services; it will prevent cancer history from being taken into account” to impose more onerous conditions in insurance contracts; it will establish “for the first time the right not to declare that one has suffered from cancer when taking out insurance linked to a mortgage loan”.

It will be done through the reform of the Royal Decree that approved in 2007 the Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws. According to Moncloa, the new right will benefit people who have completed cancer treatment five years before signing the contract and who have not had a subsequent relapse.