The PSOE assures that it is "always" sitting at a table "willing to negotiate"
The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, assured this Saturday that her party is “always” sitting at a table “willing to negotiate”, although she has questioned whether this is also the attitude of Junts with the housing decrees of the Government of Pedro Sánchez that Congress rejected yesterday. Previously, Junts spokesperson in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, had called on the PSOE to “sit down” to negotiate its own proposal for a decree on housing to try to channel the debate towards an agreement.
"What more do you want? We have been working on documents for weeks in which many political parties have made their proposals, their contributions, and those of Junts per Catalunya were also there," Mínguez remarked in statements to RAC1. According to Mínguez, the PSOE “never gets up from the negotiating table.” "The Socialist Party is always sitting at a table to negotiate, to solve people's problems. It is always willing to negotiate. We will do everything possible to give peace of mind to the people who are asking for solutions," he insisted.
However, he has questioned Junts' willingness to reach an agreement, because "the vast majority of its proposals are included" in one of the decrees that it rejected yesterday and which, on the other hand, did receive the "support of nationalist parties" such as ERC, Bildu, PNV or BNG. "Junts likes to vote with PP and Vox. The worse, the better," denounced Mínguez, who considers that "surely there is also an electoral calculation here" on the part of Carles Puigdemont's party.
Junts calls on the PSOE to sit down and negotiate its housing proposal: "It depends on them"
Junts spokesperson in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, called on the PSOE this Saturday to sit down and negotiate its proposed decree on housing to try to channel the debate towards an agreement: “It depends on them.” This was stated in statements to RAC1, after yesterday Friday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, opened a period of analysis and reflection to decide whether or not to advance the general elections after seeing how Congress refused - with the votes of PP, Vox and Junts - to validate his decrees on housing.
For Nogueras, the package of measures that the Government wanted to validate was “a poorly formulated, poorly written, legally non-applicable law,” and therefore “did not solve the problem,” but rather “made it worse.” "Hopefully the PSOE will sit down again. That will mean that it wants to work on this solution," said the Junts spokesperson in Madrid, who has shown herself to be "tired of this permanent campaign" by those who "demonize" her party for not thinking the same as the Government and its partners.
Nogueras has invited the Government to negotiate the proposed decree that Junts delivered “in hand” to the Minister of Housing yesterday: “It is up to them to decide if they want to provide a solution to an emergency situation or they want to continue feeding a story that is a lie and they want elections,” he stressed. However, she has been convinced that "all this is being done in an electoral manner", because both the PSOE, the PP, and all their partners have "the most focused eye on the campaign." Until Monday, he explained, Junts believed that the Government had a "real will to solve the problem", but "suddenly they allowed themselves to be dragged by the blackmail of ideological extremes" and approved some decrees that went in another direction.
Pablo Bustinduy (Madrid, 43 years old) speaks to EL PAÍS right after the end of the plenary session of Congress that repealed the two decrees on housing this Friday. The Minister of Social Rights, in charge of defending in the chamber the text that included the automatic extension of rental contracts, admits he is tired, after intense work in recent weeks. But when he responds, he does not skimp on words and makes clear his indignation at the vote against the right. “Junts' position is political suicide,” he maintains. He does not take a position on whether the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, should call elections, but warns that the elections will be “a referendum on housing.”
Sun dawns with rain after the seventh night of camping
By Sergio Aires Machado
The protesters camped in Sol wake up from their seventh night again in the rain. The drops patter on the tents and tarps after a night of light but constant rain, which at least has not caused structures to fall as happened last night due to the wind. This will be one of the most important days of the camp, marked by a demonstration that will depart at 12:00 from four different points that will converge in the Plaza de Cibeles.
The camped protesters focused their efforts early on in emptying the puddles that have formed in the square during the night. They form chains with brooms to sweep it out of the camp and also try to empty the accumulations of water in the awnings and tents.
It was written and measured, and the phrase said it all: “Do the right thing because history will judge you sooner than you believe and more forcefully than you imagine.” Upon listening to her, a good part of the chamber interpreted in that “sooner than they think” that Pedro Sánchez has already fully decided to bring forward the elections imminently, on the first possible date, November 29. The reality, according to various sources close to the president and people who spoke with him during the long day in Congress, is that Sánchez has not yet made a final decision, although the immediate electoral advance is on his table.
Good morning. The Tenants' Union has called for dozens of demonstrations this Saturday in the main cities of Spain, with a large march in Madrid, while calling for a general strike. Mobilizations called to denounce the fall of housing decrees and demand a 50% reduction in rents, the demand for indefinite contracts and also the expropriation of homes to vulture funds.
Meanwhile, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has opened a period of reflection to decide whether or not to advance the general elections, after Congress overthrew on Friday, with the votes of PP, Vox and Junts. Decrees with which the Executive wanted to stop evictions and extend rents, among other measures.
