The road was becoming clear. Primero Podemos plucked the daisy with the 'yes' to the Government after the Tenants' Union asked for support for the Housing decrees. Afterwards, the PNV sowed "critical" support for the broadest, most extensive text, and a 'no' to the automatic renewal of rent, which it never had any expectations of taking hold. The same pot in which the Canarian Coalition was planted. The sowing was pending on Junts, all the pressure and focus for the Catalan independentists, which did not seem to make an impact. In a night meeting of the leadership of the Catalan independentists they decided to ask the Government to withdraw the decree and approve a new one that includes their demands. If they do not do so, they will not give their favorable vote, they will vote no, according to sources from the party leadership told this newspaper. The Executive does not contemplate that scenario.
More than cold, the Government and the socialists were frozen. His plan was to be able to carry out the most comprehensive and extensive document, the one that brought together all the measures, and to be reversed in the text that only contemplates the automatic renewal of rents. The contacts in these months with the groups and the latest movements to probe made all the ministers, even Pedro Sánchez himself, appear "optimistic." In the work to prepare the texts, the Ministry of Housing had tried to include, to a greater or lesser extent, demands made by all parties. That the groups were represented although they consider the measures insufficient. "There is great predisposition from everyone"; "There is no real argument to vote against," said members of the Executive.
Junts found arguments. And, once again, it dealt a very severe setback to the Executive, leaving Sánchez in the ICU, because it is confirmed that La Moncloa is unable to assemble a parliamentary majority and turns the desire for Budgets into an even greater utopia. Legislature in a coma just a few months before the elections, with assisted breathing until Sánchez decides to disconnect the machine by calling elections. "It's terrible," government sources said late on Monday.
“It is a failure,” added socialist sources. "They will have to give explanations," they delved into the Executive. "A turning point," summed up a prominent socialist. "The Government has done its part", "it has fulfilled", members of the Government repeated in the last hours, with a certain fly behind their ears, pointing out that it was no longer in their hands to be able to do more, after trying to reflect the requests of their partners. «This Friday each parliamentary group will have to decide which side they are on. We have already done it. "We are on the side of the people," is the message in the form of pressure that Sánchez launched this Thursday, but also with a certain burden of disclaimer.
The Catalan secessionists argue that the current decrees "will cause the opposite effect that they intend" by "reducing the supply of rental housing, increasing prices and making access to housing even more difficult for people with less economic capacity."
Furthermore, they criticize that the current wording "does not stop the vulture funds", that "they may continue acquiring homes and promoting evictions of vulnerable tenants", that "the protection of vulnerable tenants is not adequately resolved because payment by the Administration is not guaranteed" and that "certain measures involve the expropriation by decree of the savings of three generations of families", by opening the door for tenants to buy the home before it passes into the hands of the heirs.
With the rest of the investiture bloc giving a cascading yes to a text with which they do not agree 100%, Junts breaks the deck and distances itself, at the last minute, and asks that the Council of Ministers prepare a new proposal. The Government sees the order and uploads it: it will not withdraw any of the texts. "We have worked on them for months to accommodate the vision of the different parliamentary groups and build a consensus that lives up to the demands and needs of citizens," the Executive responds.
Canarian Coalition, which ended up showing its favorable vote, did manage to get the Executive's commitment, as they explained, to process the proposal as a bill and not a decree, which allows the parties to propose proposals for change.
Sánchez proposed an express housing operation to take advantage of the Maricarmen effect, the pressure from the street and to avoid situations that would make it possible for the parties to change their minds. He had 30 days to validate the decrees and asked to do it in 72 hours. But the reverse will also be express.
