In the streets of Madrid, reproaches for the housing crisis have been heard in recent hours directed at both sides of the political spectrum. But if Pedro Sánchez, this morning, ignored those who attacked him and blamed PP and Vox for not applying the Housing Law in their communities, the right has also rejected this Sunday any possible share of responsibility for the problem. Some, the popular ones, have done so by attacking the Government's policies, while Vox, supporting them, has also pointed to the arrival of immigrants as "one of the reasons" for the crisis.
In the opinion of the main opposition party, "any demonstration there is [regarding housing] is telling Sánchez: 'We have been in your CIS telling you that this is the main problem of the Spanish people.'" And the popular ones believe that the young people who protest about the difficulty of accessing a house "put the focus on Sánchez." "He is responsible," said this morning the popular deputy secretary responsible for this matter, Juan Bravo, who has reproached the president for "instead of looking for solutions to the problems, he looks for culprits" - "the banks, the electricity companies or the City Council and the Community of Madrid."
Exhibiting his disagreements on housing policy, the popular leader has not reached out to facilitate the Government's approval of the anti-eviction decree and the extension of rents requested by the protesters. "Advertisements are not worth it, interventionist policies are not worth thinking that with a one-page BOE you are going to fix it," Bravo criticized, warning Sánchez that "he cannot expect to fix in four days what he has destroyed in eight years."
And so, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo already did, his deputy secretary has asked for steps to be taken to implement popular housing policies: "That Spaniards can speak and can decide who they give their support to," he demanded, urging Sánchez to call the polls. This Sunday the PP sent to the media a decalogue of economic measures that includes a chapter on housing, which includes its already announced proposals: "creating the conditions to build a million homes in four years", an anti-squatting law, public guarantees and tax reductions for young people and "ending stressed areas."
The party on the right of the political spectrum has shown greater toughness, as usual. Given the social mobilization for housing, Vox has attacked the Government not only for its policy on this matter, but also looking at the increase in immigrants as "one of the reasons" for the housing crisis. "All of Spain knows that if instead of Maricarmen it were Morocarmen, it would have a house," he summarized the training in a message on networks, and Santiago Abascal himself later delved into that thesis: "Neither for Maricarmen nor for Marta and Dani who just got married. Always for the newcomers," he wrote about the distribution of social housing that, in his opinion, Sánchez applies "foreign priority."
The Vox leader has pointed out - without citing the source of the data - that, in the eight years of the Socialist Government, "eight million foreigners have entered Spain and less than 90,000 homes have been built per year." A situation that, he believes, is behind "the impossible prices, the frustrated emancipations of millions of young people and the families that cannot make ends meet." This is the first calm position given by the formation after the eviction of Maricarmen and the social mobilization that was unleashed afterwards, since before yesterday Abascal limited himself to saying that "the Spaniards have been evicted by the Government for a long time", without going into the matter.
The criticism of the leader of the hard right has not remained in the Executive, but has also been directed at the demonstrators who remain protesting in Puerta del Sol, calling them "Sanchez's militias." "They are camped to protect the criminal government," considers Abascal.
