Nogueras accuses Sánchez of acting in an electoral manner after rejecting the housing decrees

Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has criticized that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has acted "more in an electoral manner" than to solve the housing problem, in reference to her party's refusal to support the two royal decrees presented by the Government this Friday. At the same time, Nogueras has called on the PSOE to sit down and negotiate his proposed decree on housing to try to channel the debate towards an agreement: "It depends on them."

In an interview given to Catalunya Ràdio this Saturday, Nogueras insisted that the Junts proposal prohibited the purchase of housing by vulture funds and included proposals that, he says, are working in countries of the European Union, and he said that the Executive has fallen into the "ideological blackmail of the extremes."

"It is not a good law. Yesterday [this Friday] what we did was prevent a worsening of the situation," he defended, adding that until last Monday there was an agreement in principle, but that after the partners' press conferences they were sent a new text very similar to the decrees that had already been passed in Congress previously.

He has maintained that the Junts housing model is "neither the Colau model nor the Ayuso model", and that what his proposal included was the guarantee of giving legal security to what he calls small owners because, he affirms, they are 90% of the owners in Catalonia.

Thus, he assured that when the decree was published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) "in 24 hours more than 4,000 apartments were removed from the market", and he pointed out that the Government's proposal did not stop the purchase of housing by vulture funds and could not prevent evictions.

"These people have not dared to use vulture funds. This law allows vulture funds to continue buying," he said.

Likewise, in statements to RAC1, Nogueras added that "I hope 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 this Friday Junts delivered "in hand" to the Minister of Housing: "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.

Puigdemont and Rufián

Asked about a possible return of the former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, if the amnesty is applied to him, and if she would be willing to give him the position as head of the Junts list to Congress, she said that they are not thinking about elections, although she adds that they are "prepared." Regarding Puigdemont, he has said that the scenario is not on the table and that he is the "best candidate for the Generalitat."

"What is happening with the issue of the decrees is exactly what happened with the amnesty law"

"What is happening with the issue of the decrees is exactly what happened with the amnesty law. We were told everything for voting no the first time. The amnesty law was not a well-made law, it was not a law that could amnesty everyone," he explained.

Regarding the statements of the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, during this Friday's session, where he expressed that he would like Junts to end up in ostracism, Nogueras has reproached him for not having presented any proposal: "We dedicate ourselves to working, let him dedicate himself to speaking, if that is what he knows how to do. And that's it. I will never work so that Esquerra is ostracized," he concluded.

The PSOE responds to Junts that it is "always" sitting at a table "willing to negotiate"

For her part, 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.

"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 leaves the negotiating table."

"The socialist party is always sitting at the 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 PNV or BNG.