It has not taken the PP three days to respond, with its own initiative, to the new PSOE land law proposal registered last Friday together with the PNV. The socialist group in Congress and the formation jeltzale They presented a joint initiative after the Ministry of Housing had to withdraw in extremis his proposed law on urban planning on May 23, due to the lack of support. In the midst of the parliamentary war that the Popular Party has opened against the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party warned from that day that they would bring their own norm to the Cortes. A threat that the party’s senator and deputy secretary of Sustainable Development, Paloma Martín, materialized this Monday, next to the popular headquarters on Génova street in Madrid. “The Government repeats the same mistakes. She has carried out this initiative through her group without speaking to the main opposition party, which is the PP, without speaking to the autonomous communities or local entities,” she stated before journalists.
Last month, the socialist part of the Government overcame another setback in Congress by avoiding a vote on the land law that it had practically lost. The PP, which had positioned itself in favor of the proposal weeks ago, privately threatened to vote against a proposal that did not have Sumar’s approval. The initiative, therefore, was doomed to failure. A scenario that the popular people wanted to take advantage of to show “the parliamentary weakness” of Pedro Sánchez, within the framework of the Genoa offensive against the president. “Given the hopelessness, what I do is make this rule available to the groups,” said the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, after withdrawing the proposal. And that has been the path chosen to try to resolve the situation: last Friday the PSOE registered another text as a bill, instead of a bill emanating from the Government, through its parliamentary group and with the support of the PNV.
The wording of the new text is practically the same except with regard to jurisdictional issues that affect all the autonomous communities, whose modification has been introduced in article 4. The reform promoted by the PSOE aims to avoid a slowdown in the execution of those projects on which complaints fall due to minor and correctable defects in their urban planning. However, this approach is rejected by a large part of the parliamentary group, including Sumar.
“We trust that the rest of the parliamentary groups in Congress will support this reform that seeks to solve a problem that can affect all municipalities in the State,” stressed PNV deputy Maribel Vaquero. But, as far as the Popular Party is concerned, Feijóo’s party does not move a millimeter. “It is a law that is lame, because it is not going to solve the problem of housing supply and squatting,” Paloma Martín said this Monday about the joint initiative of PSOE and PNV. The popular deputy secretary has praised her own proposal, which will reach Congress in the next session, in September, and which incorporates the repeal of some articles of the current housing law.
The problem for the popular party is that, once the PNV has been ruled out as possible support by joining the PSOE proposal, they would have to look to Junts if they want the norm to obtain the approval of the lower house. “We are open to negotiating within the commission, where the law proposals presented by the different parliamentary groups are debated,” Martín responded to the question of whether they will maintain contacts with Carles Puigdemont’s party. “Over there [en la comisión parlamentaria] We will open a permanent dialogue with everyone, but we are very clear that the land law must necessarily be accompanied by the reform of the housing law. And there, where parties want to join and where we can all meet to respond to the serious housing problem that Spain needs, we will be willing to talk,” he added.
After the European elections, in which the PP won by two seats over the PSOE, Feijóo’s strategy is to break the parliamentary majority that supports Sánchez in as many votes as possible, seeking alliances even with the Junts independentists. Also with the PNV, which in this case has escaped them thanks to the anticipated movement of the PSOE.
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While the political pulse persists, the real estate sector sees the possibility of the land law becoming a reality receding. The president of the Association of Real Estate Developers of Madrid (Asprima), Carolina Roca, regretted in May that the Government withdrew the rule “due to the political situation”, because, in her opinion, the law “was very well written” and was “ very necessary.” It had also received the approval of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) when it was governed by the socialists, before the local elections of 28-M.
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