The president announces in the Assembly the extension of the aid to those under 35 years of age who negotiate a mortgage
The line of regional guarantees so that those under 35 years of age can acquire a new home will also reach those who manage a mortgage loan to get a second-hand one, as announced by Fernando López Miras this Wednesday in the Assembly. He did it in a control session, the first of the political course to the president, questioned by María Marín, from the Mixed Group.
The deputy of Podemos asked him about the measures put in place by the autonomous government to “stop the rise in the price of rents and guarantee the constitutional right to decent housing.” He assured that average rents in Murcia range between 700 and 800 euros per month, while salaries do not exceed 1,300 gross. He also considered a “shame” that the Cabinet of López Miras has not made “the slightest development” of the regional housing law and assured that Murcia has a problem with “speculation.”
In addition to the announcement of the extension of guarantees to young people for the acquisition of second-hand houses, the president ratified the refusal of his Government to comply with the new Housing law promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, using legal loopholes for this. He assured that in the face of the “interventionist” policies of the central Administration, he applies liberal criteria to facilitate young people’s access to housing and allow urban development. He recalled that his Executive has launched aid so that young people can acquire houses in towns with less than five thousand inhabitants and has also facilitated the construction of three hundred floors of official protection.
The regional guarantees for people under 35 years of age who intend to acquire their first home were implemented last year as a solution to eliminate the economic barrier that the payment of a ticket or signal implies. Said guarantee covers up to 20% of the appraised value of the home, so that the bank can finance 100% of the amount thereof.
Fight against poverty
López Miras was also asked by the socialist Diego Conesa about the measures of his Executive to reduce the rates of poverty and social exclusion. After a predictable response (“This government is doing everything in its power to help those who need it most,” he said), the president got rid of Conesa’s criticism, underpinned by the poverty and school dropout rates, attacking him with the memories of the failed motion of censure in March. Beyond that small friction, the only one in the entire control session, the socialist demanded that López Miras comply with the Pact to Fight Poverty that he signed in May 2019 and the president proposed the “economic recovery” and the creation of I use it as the two most suitable recipes to face these problems.
López Miras was also questioned by his political group, the Popular, about the impact on the Region of the General State Budget bill for 2022 and assured, in response to Joaquín Segado, that the most important law that Congress approves each year It has “become a big problem” for Murcians, since these accounts reward “those who want to destroy Spain” and harm communities loyal to the State. «They are a clear mistreatment, some sectarian assumptions. I have not listened to any representative of the Socialist Party and of Podemos defend a single strategic initiative of these budgets for the Region. That’s because they don’t answer any of your problems. ” As a significant case, he mentioned that there is not a single euro to fight against the pollution of the Mar Menor.
Money for the lagoon
About the Mar Menor, the spokesman for the Citizens Group, Francisco Álvarez, asked him. López Miras assured that he believed that in the meeting he held in August with the Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, “something was going to change”, starting with the cutting of water to illegal irrigation in Campo de Cartagena and the authorization for clean dry and mud on the beaches. But “it was not like that” and, since then, he has only found negative responses from the Government to improve the situation of the salty lagoon. And he also cited the ministerial resistance to dredging the Marchamalo gorge in order to allow the entry of water from the Mediterranean. “The lace has been zero euros for the Mar Menor in the General State Budgets,” he lamented. Faced with this situation, he said that “we cannot stand still” and guaranteed that “we will continue to act at source” with more agricultural inspections and compliance with regional law.
Likewise, the president asked the national deputies for the Region of Murcia to reverse the situation by presenting amendments to the draft General Budgets in Madrid. He promised to compensate in “what we can” with more money for the lagoon in the regional accounts for next year: “It will be the budgets of history that will allocate the most to the recovery of the Mar Menor.”
López Miras also confirmed, to questions from Juan José Liarte, from the Vox Group, that the request for the Covid passport to access events, celebrations and nightlife establishments will be at the expense of the organizers. Those who request it will be able to complete the capacity of premises; those who do not will have to meet the 75% limit. “The Covid passport will be an option, not an imposition,” he said.
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