Feijóo urges Sánchez to call general elections in the face of the housing crisis

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Saturday urged the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, not to “make any further threats” and call general elections immediately so that Spaniards can express themselves at the polls. During his closing speech at the VIII edition of the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum, held in O Grove (Pontevedra), the opposition leader assured that his demand for early elections does not respond to “revanchism”, but rather to the fact that the country “cannot take it anymore”.

Feijóo has stated that Spain has “the right to decide now” given the lack of stability of the Executive and the parliamentary blockade. In his speech, he contrasted the management of the current Government with the alternative of its formation: "Spaniards must take the floor as soon as possible to choose between those who have colonized and corrupted the institutions or those who have a project to regenerate them and return them to the service of the citizens," he stated.

The statement by the PP leader comes one day after the Congress of Deputies overturned the two royal decree-laws on housing approved last Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, and on a day marked by demonstrations and social mobilizations in various parts of the national territory demanding solutions to access to housing.

In this regard, Feijóo has placed residential policy as the “symbol of failure” of Pedro Sánchez's Cabinet. Faced with the Government's response, the president of the Popular Party has guaranteed that, if he assumes the presidency after an electoral process, he will present a comprehensive proposal on housing "in the first month of Government." As explained, this measure will be transferred to the social agents, political parties and affected sector to incorporate their allegations, based on a plan in which the training is already working.