UP raises the tone before the PSOE to unblock the housing law before the PGE: "It cannot be government and opposition"

He reproaches that Sánchez's turn to the left may remain in rhetoric by not including the mortgage ceiling in the contingency plan

MADRID, 20 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can has raised the tone to demand that the PSOE immediately approve the housing law and fulfill once and for all the commitment that they reached in the coalition two years ago, by disfiguring the socialists who "cannot be government and opposition" to the time.

In addition, he has questioned the non-inclusion of his proposal to limit the rise in variable mortgages and the freezing of rental prices in the contingency plan, which will be approved by the Council of Ministers, and has conveyed his "concern" that the "turn to the left" shown by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the Debate on the State of the Nation remains "rhetorical".

They have also stressed that this unblocking must be undertaken before the approval of the General State Budgets for 2023, although Comú Podem has advocated taking advantage of the budget negotiation again to complete this rule, which is essential for the confederal space.

This has been transferred in two press conferences by the spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, and the president of the confederal group, Jaume Asens, to make clear these differences with the socialists in housing matters.

The leader of En Comú Poden wanted to make a "wake-up call" to the PSOE regarding housing regulations, the processing of which is not progressing in Congress, because in approximately 14 months there will be general elections, an appointment in which citizens will vote "according to of what they have promised and done.

In this regard, he stressed that Sánchez promised long ago to the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, to make a law that would regulate rental prices and that two years ago they already reached an agreement to make that measure a reality, endorsed in the last pact on current public accounts.

"We are in mid-September and the situation is still stuck. We need to speed up, not slow down or go half throttle," Asens emphasized in clear reproach to the PSOE. And it is that he has insisted that the housing law is a "historic opportunity" to place himself at the same level as countries like Germany or France, which have legislation that regulates rent.

For the leader of the confederal space, people would not understand that the price of masks or gas is regulated, but not done with "abusive rents" while, in addition, salaries remain "frozen".

Therefore, he has warned his coalition partner that being in government implies complying with "the agreements" and that the PSOE "cannot be government and opposition at the same time." "It seems unimaginable to us that the PSOE does not keep its word and I do believe that the timing of the PGE is appropriate to put this issue on the table," he noted.

Meanwhile, Echenique has specified that they have transferred to the PSOE that this law must complete its processing before the approval of the PGE and in line with the amendments that have been registered, to increase the protection of the tenant with the regulation of prices against increases in areas of a stressed market and incorporating Sareb's homes into the public park, especially when it is a "nationalized" entity and now has "empty homes" that can be put at the service of the people.

Yesterday, the second vice president also urged to unblock the Housing Law and disassociated this rule from the negotiation of the General Budgets, because they are two different laws that have "nothing to do with each other."

For his part, Echenique has expressed his concern that the contingency plan does not have actions to contain "the increase in the housing bill", since neither rents are frozen nor mortgages are met as they had demanded.

Especially when it comes to the higher cost for families, in a context of rising inflation, which cannot continue to be allowed. In this way, he has questioned whether Sánchez's "turn to the left" remains "rhetoric."

And it is that he has reasoned that "it is good to point out the economic powers to which the PP is due", but it is necessary to "carry those words into action". "It is NOT worth just saying it, we must take measures that the Government must put in front of the great economic powers and protect families."