Podemos confirmed this Thursday that it will vote in favor tomorrow in Congress of the two Government decrees on housing.
The formation of Ione Belarra, which had been very critical of the Executive for proposing two separate texts (one only to extend the rents indefinitely) has announced its decision after meeting with the Confederation of Tenants' Unions this morning.
“We can be a tool in the hands of the social movement, we are going to listen to that call but without losing sight of the fact that the fundamental thing is that the mobilization continues,” Belarra justified on TVE.
The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has the “hope” of being able to approve the decrees that are voted on tomorrow, but asks for caution. “I understand that the text that has come out of the Council of Ministers cannot satisfy everyone,” he said this Thursday in an interview on Cadena SER.
The Official State Gazette (BOE) today publishes the second Royal Housing Decree approved on Tuesday, which includes the automatic and successive extension of rental contracts for five years and compensation to tenants if the owner decides to terminate the contract without a reason included in the regulation.
Meanwhile, the Sol camp faces its sixth day a few hours before the ultimatum imposed by the Community to ask the Government Delegation to order the eviction expires.
Alicia del Río, representative of the Tenants' Union, has once again asked on TVE that the parties support the housing decrees this Friday even if they are "minimum" and has criticized that dividing the measures into two laws is "a trap."
Del Río has called to maintain the mobilizations beyond this Friday. "The most important thing is that the mobilization continues. I want to call on all people to participate in the demonstrations this weekend, to call for a general strike, because only from there, from that mobilization, will the measures that we really need to put an end to the housing business and speculation will emerge," he asked.
The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, assured this Thursday that her party “will fight until the last minute” so that the two housing decrees that are voted on Friday in Congress go ahead.
“They are two decrees that are very brave and very ambitious and, therefore, the negotiation has to be fought until the last minute,” he said in an interview on La1. “People have to understand that there are 171 deputies who are the Popular Party, Vox and UPN, who always vote against the social majority and protect the interests of the people.”
The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has assured that she has the “hope” of being able to approve the housing decrees in Congress this Friday, but asks for caution in an interview on Cadena SER. Rodríguez has assured that all groups have had to make resignations, but that "everything that is within this rule is good for 100% of Spaniards."
Sumar wanted to increase the pressure on the parliamentary groups that have not yet revealed the meaning of their vote on the two housing decrees that will be submitted to the scrutiny of the Cortes this Friday.
To this end, it has announced the estimated number of households that would benefit from the automatic two-year extension that tenants with contracts that expire before December 31, 2028 can benefit from, a formula included in the great decree published this Wednesday in the BOE.
According to the calculations handled by the training through the Household Panel, which should be taken as a forecast and not as a closed figure, there are around 1.9 million potential contracts.
Applying to that volume the average of 2.5 people per household used by the INE, the Government's minority partner speaks of a reach of close to five million people.
The extraordinary two-year extension of rental contracts approved this week by the Government and included in the first royal decree published this Wednesday will not be added to the new automatic renewal deadlines if the second housing decree comes into force, the text of which has been published this Thursday in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
The rule expressly establishes that this two-year temporary extension “will not apply when the extension provided for in article 10.1” of the Urban Leases Law is applicable, the new system that makes the continuity of contracts the general rule.
Among the tents and organization posts, there is also space for volunteers who are in charge of preparing and distributing food.
One of the young people who works within the camp and is part of the organization explains that about 2,000 people are fed free of charge every day.
The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Thursday the second Royal Housing Decree approved on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, which includes the automatic and successive extension of rental contracts for five years and compensation to tenants if the owner decides to terminate the contract without a reason included in the regulation.
The decree provides that at the end of the contract and if none of the parties has communicated in a timely manner the desire to conclude it, it will be obligatorily extended for successive periods of five years, or seven years if the lessor is a legal entity.
Early this Thursday morning, the cleaning services of the Madrid City Council removed the posters and accessories that those camped in Puerta del Sol had placed on the statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree.
The statue, a symbol of the city, was covered with a Palestinian flag, a reflective vest from the Tenants' Union, posters and several stickers from the CGT, Liberar Madrid and Socialist and Libertarian Feminism.
Around 7:30, City Hall workers proceeded to clean the statue, but several of the campers put them back, this time, on the protection fence that was placed around it yesterday.
The protesters have already started the sixth day of camping in Madrid's Puerta del Sol to demand that measures be approved against the housing crisis.
This Thursday at mid-morning the 48-hour deadline given by the Community of Madrid for them to vacate the square is met. The protesters' idea is to remain at least until Friday, the day the decrees will be voted on in Congress.
"Impunity and disorder cannot continue to run rampant. We have just sent a request to the Government delegate to give the appropriate instructions within 48 hours to vacate Puerta del Sol," Miguel Ángel García Martín announced on Tuesday.
