Podemos has already stood up to the Government's maneuver of trying to solve the housing problem by approving two decrees with measures, the first already published in the BOE and which includes proposals from Junts and the PNV, and the second, which will be published tomorrow, and which includes Sumar's demands.
The general secretary of the purple party, Ione Belarra, has confronted the first vice president of the Government, Carlos Body, in the control session in Congress, warning him that on this occasion the strategy "is not going to work." Belarra has accused the Executive of "cheating" by "cutting up the decree" with the aim of silencing social protest. The Podemos deputy has demanded that the Government "withdraw" the first decree that it has already published in the Official State Gazette and send a "complete" one to Congress.
"If you don't do it for love, at least do it for electoral interest," the leader of the purples in the Chamber snapped. To this, the first vice president has responded by stringing together the most substantial measures included in the first decree and has urged the parliamentary formations to "start on Friday" to solve the problems by voting in favor of the validation of the rules designed by the Executive.
After this intervention, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has accused the Popular Party of being "on the side of soulless speculators." The minister has spoken this way in response to the intervention of the popular deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo who has reproached the Government for its "use" of the eviction of an elderly woman and the Puerta del Sol mobilizations that she has defined as the "15 meme." The PP has also criticized the Executive's decision to divide the housing measures into two decrees and, in addition, take them with utmost urgency to validation in an extraordinary plenary session this Friday.
The division of the decree does not convince a part of Sumar either. Enrique Santiago has been one of the voices that has spoken out against it. "It would not be worth it for us to approve the first one and not the second, which is the one that solves the problem," he assured. For Santiago, the "technical arguments" that have been given to explain the fragmentation and the delay in the publication of the second of them "do not" convince him "at all."
The presidency of the Chamber, by virtue of the provisions of article 69 of the Regulations, has sent to the parliamentary spokespersons the text of the decrees that will be debated and voted on Friday in Plenary starting at 11:00 a.m. The aforementioned article of the regulations establishes that "no debate may begin without the prior distribution, to all the members of the Chamber with the right to participate in the plenary session or in the commission, where appropriate, at least forty-eight hours in advance, of the report, opinion or documentation that must serve as a basis for it."
From Junts, Marta Madrena has also complained about the Government's "lack of rigor" when it comes to legislating and has reproached the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, for not even knowing what she approves and for having "a real cocoa."
For her part, the spokesperson for the PNV, Maribel Vaquero, has regretted that the Government intends to solve a problem as serious as housing through decrees. Vaquero has asked for "more carrot and less stick" and has warned that with the rules that are intended to be validated on Friday the situation will not be fixed.
