The Catalan Parliament approves appealing the Housing Law to the TC at the proposal of Junts and ERC

The opposition reproaches ERC for voting in favor of the law in Congress and now asking to take it to the TC

The plenary session of Parliament has endorsed appealing the Housing Law before the Constitutional Court (TC) for alleged invasion of regional powers at the proposal of ERC and Junts, with the support of the CUP.

The PSC and the communes have voted against, while Cs, Vox and the PP have abstained.

In August, and at the request of Junts, an opinion of the Council of Statutory Guarantees (CGE) ruled that the state rule allegedly violates the exclusive competence of the Generalitat in matters of housing and the principle of financial and spending autonomy.

The opinion pointed out the alleged unconstitutionality of a dozen provisions on housing policies, subsidized housing and public parks, among others.

The Republicans had voted in favor of the Housing Law in Congress, but joined Junts' request to appeal it before the TC after the CGE's ruling.

The Junts spokesperson, Mònica Sales, has criticized ERC for the inconsistency, in her words, of having negotiated the law with the Government and now joining the appeal that her group first raised: "But the approach is welcome."

Pau Morales has defended that ERC negotiated to preserve regional powers and make progress in rent regulation, and has accused Junts of "hide behind Catalan sovereignty" to stop, among other things, measures against evictions.

The socialist Eva Candela has recalled that two members of the CGE endorsed the constitutionality of the law in a private vote, and has shown her surprise that ERC defends appealing a rule that its own deputies negotiated, thus aligning itself with "PP governments".

"You cannot be at mass and ringing", said David Cid (communs), who has reproached ERC for negotiating the law with the Government and now wants to appeal it, and has accused ERC and Junts of wanting to cover up their ideological differences with an appeal for jurisdictional reasons.

Maria Elisa Fuster (Vox) has maintained that the Housing Law completes the "abandonment of ordinary citizens" that, in her opinion, the Government has carried out with the support of the independence movement, and has reproached ERC and Junts for proposing appeal it for jurisdictional issues.

From the CUP, Montserrat Vinyets has warned that Catalonia is undergoing a "legislative expropriation process" of its exclusive powers, and has advanced that her group will soon present a bill on the right to housing in Parliament.

Noemí de la Calle (Cs) has lamented that the independentistas "only pay attention to the CGE when they are interested", and has criticized that in the investiture negotiations they ask for an amnesty instead of measures to facilitate access to housing.

The popular Daniel Serrano has maintained that the PP government appeals against the law are logical because the party opposed it, unlike the ERC: "We are facing an exercise in political hypocrisy. It is a game between two former partners of the Government in the we're not going in."

CAPELLA DEFENDS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT

After the debate, the Regional Minister for Territory, Ester Capella, took the floor to defend the Government's housing policies: she assured that Catalonia was a pioneer in "subtracting the right to housing from the logic of the market", and that That continues to be a priority for the Government.

In addition, he has ensured that some hide behind the defense of regional powers to defend an "unlimited right to property", in reference to Junts, and has maintained that the Generalitat is the only administration that, for the moment, has initiated the Procedures to apply the containment of rental income.