Unidas Podemos and government partners view Sánchez's plan to mobilize 50,000 Sareb homes as electoralist

The PNV, the PDeCAT and the CUP distance themselves from the Housing Law, which will support Más País and Compromís

MADRID, 18 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Unidas Podemos, Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and EH Bildu have welcomed the recent initiative announced by President Pedro Sánchez to mobilize 50,000 Sareb homes, but they also consider that it seems "electoralist" for it to be announced just in the run-up to the elections for the next May 28 and after months and years in which the PSOE refused to support the measure.

The co-spokesperson for Podemos, Javier Sánchez Serna, has made ugly at a press conference that the president has "made his own" a proposal that the confederal group had been launching and that the PSOE rejected in plenary session of Congress a little over six months ago. In his opinion, the announcement is a "first step", but he believes that the figure of 50,000 homes is "modest", since in his opinion "all" of the company's homes should be on the market.

"We celebrate that the ideas of Podemos open the way," remarked Sánchez Serna, who has pointed out that his group's proposals in this regard go "much further", although he has not offered details in this regard. The leader of Unidas Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, also spoke along these lines.

For his part, the spokesman for Esquerra Republicana (ERC) in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, specifically said that "it hurts to see the PSOE move due to an electoral emergency."

In fact, it has gone further and has indicated that the supposed formulas that the Government wants to use to transfer these properties to the autonomous communities do not seem good to them. As Rufián explained, the Government's intention is to put these properties owned by Sareb up for sale to the CCAAs.

The spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurúa, has also spoken on this matter, who considers that it is a good measure, but that it arrives late and with a mainly electoral reason, since months ago the PSOE itself was the one that rejected this initiative.

Finally, both Mireia Vehí, from the CUP, and Néstor Rego, from the BNG, have expressed the same opinion, recalling that on more than one occasion the Socialist Group said that this mobilization of real estate was not possible.

Last September, when a non-legal proposal by Unidas Podemos was debated in Congress to, among other things, transfer Sareb properties to the autonomous communities and make them available to the public, the PSOE opposed it, alleging then that The state company did not have as many properties for this task, nor was it the main instrument in Housing policies.

On the other hand, the agreement that the coalition government reached with ERC and Bildu to unblock the Housing Law has added the support of Más País, whose spokesman, Íñigo Errejón, considers that broadly speaking it is "positive", while the PNV , the PDeCAT and the CUP have so far stood out for "invading powers" and being "insufficient", respectively.

In a press conference in Congress, Errejón has welcomed the regulations, although he has also warned of some "gaps", such as the regulation of temporary rentals or that the norm is left to the "regulations of the autonomous communities".

This, as explained by the deputy of Más País, will cause that in communities such as Andalusia or Madrid, where the right governs, the regulations will not be applied. Just the opposite situation would occur in Valencia, where Compromís and the PSPV govern. These formations have announced that, when the law is approved, they will request that the city be declared stressed to limit the increase in rental prices.

On the issue of jurisdiction, the spokesperson for the PDeCAT, Ferran Bel, has spoken, but to criticize just the opposite. For the deputy, the housing regulations "cut off" and invade the powers of the autonomous communities in this matter. The PNV also spoke in this sense.

He has also pointed against the parliamentary processing of the norm, which after more than a year blocked in Congress is going to be accelerated in a presentation this Tuesday and, foreseeably, it will reach commission on Thursday or Friday, according to Bel. "It is that we are not serious, it is that we do not take care from the same Congress how we do things", the deputy protested at a press conference.

Facing the accusations of jurisdictional invasion, EH Bildu has been placed. His spokesman in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurúa, has assured that this invasion of jurisdiction has been overcome, which in his opinion was observed in the original bill, but not after the agreement reached.

On this point he has charged against the PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, who also considers that the law invades the powers of the autonomous communities in this matter. "Mr. Esteban is lying, because we have taken care of ourselves seriously and with total clarity so that there was no invasion of jurisdiction", he has added.

However, he has said that in this week's 'express' negotiations no modification is renounced, although he has clarified that it is "difficult" to introduce new changes in the regulations, which in his opinion give communities "all the tools they need " to regulate the housing market.

Lastly, the deputy of the CUP, Mireia Vehí, has pointed out that the law has positive aspects, such as the fact that the fees are borne by the owner and that a predetermined date and time is set to carry out an eviction, but she considers that the agreement is "insufficient" because "it fails to protect the right to housing" and the rental market should be intervened to stop the rise in prices.