The beat in the rhythm that unites the street with the institutions is sometimes out of phase. In recent weeks, citizens have starred intense mobilizations in many cities of the State to demand urgent solutions to a housing emergency that is considered the great cesspool of the family economy.
The clamor is clear: urgent solutions to a chronic problem that has been dragging on and aggravated for years. This Wednesday, The Congress of Deputies had the opportunity to match this clamor with a determined commitment to propose solutions and offer some peace of mind to citizens, but the residue left by the parliamentary debate is not along those lines.
The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodriguezstarred in an initial intervention in which he assumed that without regulation the housing problem would not be solved (especially that of exorbitant rental prices), and in which he recalled the failures of past experiences in which right-wing governments bet for the massive construction of real estate and land liberalization public.
Rodríguez recognized the category of “constitutional law” that the Magna Carta grants to housing, and advanced that the Government was “sensitive” with the existing housing emergency and that they were not going to “stop until it was resolved structurally.”
The minister went up to the platform to make a overview of all policies that the Government had deployed (which, although they have tackled certain problems, have not come close to solving the problem of prices or the level of speculation in the market, especially with regard to tourist and seasonal rentals).
A debate with tension and without proposals
However, did not present a single new proposalsomething that the parliamentary groups discredited in their interventions. They were especially tough Add (who asked him to choose between “investment funds” and the people who suffer the housing drama) and Can (which reminded her that the street had called for her resignation, accused the PSOE of making “the same policies as the PP in housing” and pointed out that Rodríguez herself was a “rentista” because of the properties she has and the policies deployed from her department).
The second part of the debate turned the plenary session into a pitched battle. The minister hardened her tone extremely and engaged in intense clashes with Sumar and Podemos. “When things go well, you get a medal, and when they don’t, it’s the PSOE’s fault. Nothing happens, we are the older brothers and we take charge. Who are you with, the Government or the opposition?” he snapped. to Alberto Ibáñez, deputy of Compromís-Sumar.
“With my three properties that you have mentioned, I don’t even have half to pay for the Galapagar villa; I’m sorry, I can’t afford it,” the minister responded to Ione Belarrain reference to the house of the former vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesiasand the former Minister of Equality and Podemos MEP, Irene Montero.
Most groups consider that the Government “has missed an opportunity to tackle the housing problem”
Virtually all the parliamentary groups consulted have pointed out that The Government “has lost a historic opportunity to provide a clear and convincing response to a national emergency that will continue to set the agenda in the future.
“Little empathy, little self-criticism and zero proposals. It is a lost opportunity and a disappointment. Nothing about how the PP is going to be forced to apply the law, nothing about tourist rentals, nothing about the prohibition of buying homes for speculation. “It leaves us worried and we will have to reflect on our next steps in terms of housing,” he concluded. Íñigo Errejónspokesperson for Sumar, after the Plenary Session.
In the opinion of Podemos (whose leaders ended the debate visibly upset with Rodríguez’s reference to Iglesias and Montero’s chalet), “the minister is eating espetos on the beach while a tsunami is coming“.
“This debate today is driven by the street and the urgency of the street. From the street we no longer receive echoes, but screams; There is no longer a need to teach about the need for the right to housing to be above business capacity; You no longer have to extract the data. These conditions from previous debates are superfluous because people are asking us to do something now. Intervention is missing, let’s move from words to actions,” he claimed. Oskar Matuteby EH Bildu, pointing to this gap between the debate on the street and that of Congress on housing.
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