Ana Redondo accuses PP, Vox, Junts and UPN of being a "ruthless right" after overturning the housing decrees

The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, accused PP, Vox, Junts and UPN this Saturday of being a "ruthless right that does not spare evictions" for having voted against the two housing decrees promoted by the Government in Congress.

During the PSOE's 'Feminism now more than ever' event, the head of Equality thus referred to the repeal of the two housing decrees, one more general with measures to prohibit evictions of vulnerable people or tax credits for tenants and owners, and another to automatically renew rental contracts.

Redondo has admitted that the fall of the decrees has caused him "sadness" and "anger", but he has stressed the importance of "continuing to fight." "We have to be united, we have to weave networks, we have to achieve a feminist movement capable of putting a stop to and putting a limit on a ruthless right, which does not spare any attention to evictions, which does not spare any attention to kicking people out," Redondo stated during a speech at the event.

Along these lines, the minister has said that if the decrees had been validated today "the lives of many people and many women would be different" and has denounced that there are "many women" who "live on the knife's edge, thinking that they can be evicted, thinking that they can leave their home at any time with their daughters, with their sons."

Complaint that they voted against their electorate

Thus, the head of Equality has harshly criticized the political parties that voted against, alleging that the right "turned their backs on their constituents" and "broke the umbilical cord of their electorate", since "there are vulnerable people, vulnerable families, vulnerable women in all parties."

Redondo has reproached these formations for being "homeland savers" when, in his opinion, they defend the interests of "powerful elites, many times not even Spanish." "All these vulture funds do not even pay taxes in Spain," said Redondo, who has denounced that these companies "are squandering the wealth of our country and abandoning people, the most vulnerable people, to their fate."

The socialist minister has underlined the importance of housing as a fundamental right, arguing that housing is an "indispensable" condition for the rest of the fundamental rights, which is why she has stressed the importance of housing being a regularized market so that it does not fall into the law "of those who can do the most is the one who takes it."

Likewise, Redondo has highlighted that "eviction has a woman's face" and that it is no coincidence that Maricarmen has been the protagonist of the eviction that has caused a wave of demonstrations throughout Spain due to the housing situation.

At this point, he pointed out that 85% of single-parent families are women and have family responsibilities that often prevent them from making ends meet and not being able to pay "abusive" mortgages, and he added that "when a mortgage is raised, an entire family is being put at risk."