The Government maintains the housing decrees and challenges PP, Vox and Junts to "portrait themselves" in this Friday's vote in Congress
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The Sol protesters accept the setback and ask to maintain the camp | Junts agrees to reject the two decrees | Canarian Coalition announces that it will support the Government's first housing decree and reject the second
Government sources have assured that the Executive will maintain the two royal housing decrees and will not withdraw any of them before the vote scheduled for this Friday in Congress. From the Executive they consider that the vote will serve for PP, Vox and Junts to "portrait themselves" and demonstrate whether they are "with the citizens or with the speculators", as well as "with the middle and working classes or with the elites." Junts per Catalunya refuses to validate the two housing decrees that the Government will take to the Congress of Deputies this Friday. In training it is assumed that positioning will have consequences. "We are not afraid of burning ourselves to continue defending the interests of Catalan families," said Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras. The spokesperson for the Tenants' Union, Valeria Racu, refuses to take a position, for the moment, on the announcement. Those who do have an opinion are the rest of the protesters in Puerta del Sol, who ask to maintain the camp. Meanwhile, the only member of the Canarian Coalition in Congress, Cristina Valido, will support this Friday the validation of the first housing decree and reject the second. The PNV has expressed itself in the same sense, considering that the automatic renewal of rents represents "an attack on the small owner", which leads this measure to failure.
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Yolanda Díaz responds to pressure on housing decrees: "There is nothing to withdraw"
The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, has defended the housing decrees and has assured that the Executive is "very clear about the path to fight against speculation" and that it "respects the agreements."
"There is nothing to withdraw," he stated. Díaz has also presented the vote in terms of a clash between those who are "with the people" and those who are "with the speculators." "Either with Spain and Catalonia or with Vox and the PP. We will vote on that tomorrow," he added in a publication on his social networks.
The Country
The Government maintains the decrees and challenges PP, Vox and Junts to "portrait themselves" in the vote
Government sources have assured that the Executive will maintain the two royal housing decrees and will not withdraw any of them before the vote scheduled for this Friday in Congress. According to what they defend, both texts are the result of months of negotiation to incorporate the positions of different parliamentary groups and build a consensus "at the level of the demands and needs of citizens."
The Government maintains that the measures included in the decrees are effective in stopping real estate speculation, limiting the actions of vulture funds, facilitating access to the first home, promoting affordable rentals and avoiding evictions without harming small owners. As an example of its usefulness, they highlight that one of the measures already in force has made it possible this Thursday to prevent Macarena, a resident of Barcelona, from losing her home.
From the Executive they consider that the vote will serve for PP, Vox and Junts to "portrait themselves" and demonstrate whether they are "with the citizens or with the speculators", as well as "with the middle and working classes or with the elites."
Likewise, they appreciate the support announced by ERC, EH Bildu, PNV, Podemos, BNG and Coalión Canaria, groups that, as they recall, have already confirmed their favorable vote for the decrees. "Spain can no longer wait. It needs solutions and a brave housing policy," government sources conclude.
The Country
Sol protesters maintain their protest after Junts' setback: "This is what the right wants"
By César Alepuz
Daniel Taboada, a militant of Izquierda Revolucionaria and participant in the Puerta del Sol camp, downplays the parliamentary setback after Junts' announcement and defends that the protest must continue. "This is what the right wants," he says after hearing the decision.
Taboada assures that he is not contemplating abandoning the camp. "I'm not going to move from here," he says, while demanding to maintain the mobilization in the street.
Asked about the possibility of the situation leading to elections and a possible change of government, Taboada insists that the mobilization would continue. "Even if there are elections and the right can win, we will continue to mobilize," he says.
The Country
Ayuso sees Sol's camp as a plot to perpetuate Sánchez: "A dictator has slipped in"
Juan Diego Quesada
Sitting in her office, Isabel Díaz can see the assemblies held in Sol without anyone hindering her and clearly hear the chants against her. His advisors peek out of the balconies all the time and are as alarmed as his boss. When the workers of the Community of Madrid pass each other in the hallways, they complain about the graffiti and the bad taste of putting up banners of the Bear leaning on the strawberry tree. "These communists..." said a counselor the other day, referring to the young people who have camped out in the heart of Madrid due to the housing crisis. Ayuso, however, suspects that they are hiding a much more elaborate and less noble plan. After several days of reflection, he has come to the conclusion that behind the protests there is a plot by the left to perpetuate the current president, Pedro Sánchez, in power.
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The camping in Plaza Catalunya exceeds 250 tents and redoubles the mobilization after the Junts announcement
By Sofia Giraldo
The protesters concentrated in the Plaza de Sant Jaume in Barcelona have moved to the Plaza Catalunya, where they have been received by the campers. There, the camp organizers have called a spontaneous assembly to encourage newcomers to join the protest. They have explained that the camp already has a central kitchen and organized work groups for cleaning tasks, the streaming of the assembly, information points and security, including a purple point. According to the organization, the camp now has 250 tents, more than triple the number of yesterday.
Attendees shouted "shame!" upon learning of Junts per Catalunya's vote against the two Government decrees on housing. A spokesperson for the Sindicat de Llogateres, megaphone in hand: "Let's be aware of what that means." He has called to maintain the mobilizations, promote a general strike and participate in the demonstration called for this Saturday.
The Country
Mónica García criticizes Junts' decision to overthrow the decrees
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has criticized Junts' decision to overturn the housing decrees and has contrasted "two ways of doing politics": "that of screwing up people's lives or that of providing solutions that improve their lives." "It cannot be free for the first ones," the minister added in a message released after the voting intention was announced.
The Country
The Sol protesters accept the setback of Junts and ask to maintain the camp
By César Alepuz
After learning that Junts will overthrow the Government's decrees, the protesters who remain in Puerta del Sol tonight assure that they were expecting the movement and call for the mobilization to continue.
The protesters do not plan to end the protest after Junts' announcement. On the contrary, they consider that pressure on the street can cause changes. "Right now we have the power to stay here and to keep things changing, because something has changed and it has to change," says one of them.
Regarding what should happen now, the participants appeal to maintain the protest and acknowledge that they do not know how long they will have to remain in Sol to achieve their objectives. "I don't know how long we have to be here for it to really change, but I think we have to continue because we have done something and we have to achieve it," they conclude.
The Country
The Tenants Union remains silent in the face of Junts' decision
By Sergio Aires Machado
The spokesperson for the Tenants' Union, Valeria Racu, refuses to take a position, for the moment, on Junts' announcement to reject the two housing decrees that Congress is going to vote on tomorrow: "We are not going to give statements yet."
Those who do have an opinion are the rest of the protesters, who are not surprised by Junts' decision. Juan Antonio Acedo, 35, complains that it is "impossible to depend on Junts", because "the same thing always happens." Sofía Estrella, 23, also expected it: "It's the right defending the right." He considered that the decrees were not enough, but he still hoped that they would be approved "even if it were the first," because it represented "a small step."
Paula Chouza
Sumar asks that the deputies vote on the decrees "publicly by appeal"
The deputy spokesperson for Sumar and deputy for Compromís, Alberto Ibáñez, has requested in X that each deputy vote tomorrow by call and publicly on the two decrees on housing that Junts is preparing to overturn. The parliamentarian has invoked article 85 of the Congress Regulations, which establishes that "two parliamentary groups or one fifth of the members of the Chamber" must request it. "Tomorrow is not another plenary session. Therefore, we must vote publicly by call, one by one, so that each one assumes responsibility for their vote and portrays themselves before society," he said on social networks.
The Country
HOUSING
Junts agrees to overturn the Government's two housing decrees
Marc Rovira
Junts per Catalunya overturns the two housing decrees that the Government will take to the Congress of Deputies this Friday. Dry setback for the Executive. The Catalan independence party has been internally evaluating what position it adopted on an issue that is considered highly sensitive material and has made the outcome public late this Thursday night. It is assumed that positioning will have consequences. "We are not afraid of burning ourselves to continue defending the interests of Catalan families," said Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras.
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The Country
Zaragoza also camps for housing
The Zaragoza Tenants Union has joined the mobilizations and calls for expanding the protests for the right to housing. Around 8:30 p.m., the protesters set up around twenty tents in the Plaza de España.
The Country
A group of protesters returns to Sol after the Cibeles cacerolada
By César Alepuz
A group of protesters who had participated this afternoon in the cacerolada called at 8:00 p.m. in the Plaza de Cibeles have returned to Puerta del Sol. They have entered through Alcalá Street amid shouts, cheers and the sound of pots and pans, and have joined the assembly that was being held in the camp. With their arrival, a part of the protesters who had traveled to Cibeles have gathered again in Sol.
Hundreds of people in Barcelona demand urgent measures in the face of the housing crisis
By Sofia Giraldo
Hundreds of people gathered at 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday in the Plaza de Sant Jaume in Barcelona, in front of the City Hall and the Palau de la Generalitat, to protest against the housing crisis. Shouting "It is not understood, people without homes and houses without people" and with banners and the noise of keys and pots, attendees have demanded urgent measures in the face of the increase in rents and evictions.
Spokespersons for the Sindicat de Llogateres de Catalunya, the Sindicat d'Habitatge Socialista de Catalunya and the Federació d'Associacions Veïnals de Barcelona (FAVB), as well as representatives of the Plaça Catalunya camp, have taken to an improvised stage to speak. Several groups, including the FAVB, have asked, explicitly addressing Junts per Catalunya, that a vote be taken in favor of the two Government decrees on housing, although they have criticized that the Executive has divided the norm into two texts: "The decrees can provide relief to many people, even if only temporarily," they have pointed out.
The protesters have remembered Maricarmen, Olga and other people who have taken their lives after an eviction and have called to support the camp set up in Plaza Catalunya and to attend the demonstration called for next Saturday, the 3rd, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Jacobo Garcia
The cacerolada for housing concludes without incident after an hour of protest in front of Madrid City Hall
The noisy cacerolada that for more than an hour has gathered hundreds of people in front of Madrid City Hall has peacefully ended. Summoned by the tenants' union, most have banged pots and spoons and others have moved keys or used whistles. During the rally, people shouted "general strike" and "renters out of our neighborhoods." The police had to partially cut off the Plaza de Cibeles between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., when the protest ended.
The Country
The rain transfers complaints about housing in Valencia to the balconies, in the form of a casserole
The rains that affect a good part of the Valencian Community have moved the protests to the balconies, in the form of cacerolada, to demand the validation of the two decrees on housing that had initially been called in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Valencia. The spokesperson for the Union of Llogateres de València, Andrea Aleixos, has assured that if the two decrees were approved tomorrow in the Congress of Deputies they would experience it "as a victory", but that would not stop "the pressure in the street", since this "is only the beginning".
In this sense, the spokesperson has highlighted that this cacerolada, which has been heard loudly in Benimaclet, "the student and most combative neighborhood of the city of Valencia", is the anticipation of the demonstration that will be held this Saturday, September 3 in the city
