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Iglesias raises the pulse with the PSOE for the Housing Law: “It is not only a market good and what is signed, is fulfilled”

Many and very varied have been the clashes between PSOE and United We Can since they became government partners, but very few have brought the coalition to the point of tension that the Housing Law is doing. Their positions are totally opposed and there is almost no margin: “Housing” is not only a market good, it is a right. And what is signed, is fulfilled “, said the still second vice president and leader of UP, Pablo Iglesias.

The purple formation has raised the tordago after knowing yesterday the proposal of the Socialists to regulate the rents. A proposal that rules out directly limiting rents -as Podemos wants- and proposes, in exchange, to establish a bonus system for owners who agree to lower prices in certain areas and to certain tenants.

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Josà © Luis à ?? balos, has defended his approach assuring that they are “measures at the forefront of Europe, the most progressive in Europe” and has asked his partners that “it goes down to the detail and the goodness of the proposal is valued.”

However, Iglesias has put on the table the Government agreement and the Budget agreement that both parties signed and in which they promised to regulate rents. “A government is of the left when it fulfills the signed commitments,” said the vice president.

For Iglesias and his party it is not just a government commitment. Others also signed and have not been fulfilled. In the case of the future Housing Law, it is a question of identity for Podemos. It is one of his main letters of introduction to his electorate and that, given the electoral race for the Community of Madrid in which Iglesias has embarked, is a crucial point. Hence part of his commitment and the commitment of the main representatives of the formation.

In fact, the strongest advocate has been launched by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who has even threatened to withdraw support for the PSOE. The Housing Law “could only come out if it continues with the breach of the Government agreement with the support of the PP, with the change of partner by the PSOE,” he said during the morning. Montero has also stressed that “you cannot breach a government agreement that is hopeful for millions of Spaniards” and has warned that “if we all respect the agreement, there will be no noise or tension.”

Ãbalos is confident that such an extreme will not be reached and both he and his negotiating team, led by Secretary of State for Housing, David Lucas, trust that Unidos Podemos will reconsider and study the proposal for bonuses in the next few days. There are still “spaces to converge” with Podemos in the Bill for the Right to Housing, the Minister of Transport has pointed out, who does not want to consider the negotiations with his partner “liquidated”

The first vice president, Carmen Calvo, has insisted on this same line. “To comply with the government agreements is to sit down to work on the contents, that is to be already complying with them,” he argued in statements to the press before an act at the Cervantes Institute headquarters. The also Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory has ruled out that the differences on the housing law could lead to a rupture between the partners, since they are no more than “day to day of a governing coalition “

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