PSOE and Podemos try to lower the tension over the Housing Law to avoid breaking the negotiations

After last week’s storm between PSOE and United We Can On account of the model to regulate rents in Spain, both parties are trying in the last hours to reduce the tension in order to achieve meeting points that will save the future Housing Law and prevent the negotiations from blowing up permanently. It is not only the norm itself that is at stake, but the survival of the alliance of the two partners of government.

This is probably why the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Josà © Luis à ?? balos, has made a threat to reach out this Monday to the game purple after the warnings that Pablo Iglesias and his team launched last week. The Socialist Party presented a proposal for bonuses to encourage owners to lower the rents of their rental homes, but the team led by Ione Belarra, the Secretary of State for Agenda 2030, said proposal not only seems insufficient to them, but they believe that it does not respect the commitment to limit prices that the PSOE itself signed in the Government agreement and in the commitment for the General State Budgets.

That is why Vice President Iglesias appealed to said agreement and that is why the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, also warned that, if they do not comply with it, they will withdraw their support for the norm. “It could only come out if it goes ahead with the breach of the government agreement with the support of the PP, with the change of partner by the PSOE“, said the person in charge of Equality.

The answer came this Monday in the words of Minister à ?? balos, whose Department has led the bill since its inception. “The law will be born of the agreement because we socialists govern seriously and fulfill our commitments and I think that finally, after all the controversy, we will reach an agreement“, has said in a press conference from Ferraz.

From his lectern, Ã ?? balos has reiterated that “the Housing Law will stop the abusive increases in rents, it will favor the supply of affordable housing for people with lower income and especially for the young population and social groups. “It is vulnerable. It will regulate housing policies as a public service of general interest and we will continue working tirelessly to create a true public housing stock that cannot be alienated as the PP did.”

The main problem is that the formula defended by the PSOE to stop the “abusive” increases in rents in some cities of the country is not the same as the one defended by United We Can and none is willing to change their position. Faced with the socialist bonuses, UP sources reiterate to THE WORLD what “they will not support a law that does not include rent limitation “, although they recognize that they are not yet on the stage of getting up from the negotiating table.

Strategic issue

Neither they nor the PSOE. For both, the future Housing Law is a crucial mission. For the Socialists, because the Government promised to carry out the first regulation of its kind in our country at a time when access to housing is one of the biggest social problems in Spain.

For United We Can, it is also a question of identity before his electorate, especially now that Pablo Iglesias has just a few weeks left to start his electoral campaign for the Community of Madrid. Participating in this campaign with the Housing Law under one’s arm would be a banner with which to present themselves in their political battle against Isabel DÃaz Ayuso and they are not willing to renounce it.

That is why neither one nor the other wants to blow up the negotiations, although both have missed the deadlines that were given. At this point, the rule should be between the Council of Ministers and the Congress of Deputies, however neither party nor the other dare to set new dates. “The important thing is that it goes ahead and its content,” say sources of the negotiations.