Housing will be the central issue of the budget agreement reached by Canteli and IU Oviedo/Uviéu. Although the transfer to the Principality by the Oviedo/Uviéu City Council of three plots for the construction of 300 homes for young people had already been agreed in May 2023, IU is confident that the pact with the PP allows promoting the creation of a municipal housing office and “rationalizing housing for tourist use.”
The councilors Alejandro Suarez and Cristina Ponton This Wednesday at a press conference they defended the autonomy of their formation to reach agreements with the right, in the face of criticism from the PSOE to “whitewash” Canteli, which he called “frivolous.” “The strategy of the Oviedo left has been failed and the defeats must be analyzed,” said Suárez, who stressed: “it is a specific agreement, not a mandate.”
The councilor and head of strategy for IU Asturies defended the consistency of the agreement with the message launched by his party since the campaign, when Gaspar Llamazares offered Canteli to reduce the buildability in La Vega in exchange for your support. “We are going to move from chronicle to politics,” announced Suárez, who advocated overcoming “the perpetual confrontation” and avoiding “four lost years for the left in the opposition.”
The pact, which is not yet completely closed, will include, according to Cristina Pontón, reinforcements in social services, supervision of privatized services, promotion of urban renaturalization, review of San Mateo, and, conditionally, the study of the rate municipal tourism.
Although the PP does not need IU’s votes to push the budgets forward, Canteli has already announced his support for a “historic agreement”, while calling the socialist Llaneza “clumsy”, “liar” and “unreliable”.
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