Podemos will vote in favor of the housing decrees in Congress after a request from the unions

The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, announced this Thursday that her party will vote this Friday in Congress in favor of the two housing decrees approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers.

Belarra explained, in an interview on TVE, that she will give her support to both decrees in line with what the Confederation of Tenant Unions has "asked" of them, in a meeting they held this morning.

After admitting that the "crumbs" contained in the decrees are "better than nothing", he warned that "the rent cannot be paid with crumbs", that the approved measures "are of no use" and that the Government should not, in his opinion, have "chopped them up" into two decrees. "This is a trap that the PSOE always makes, it wants a part not to be approved," he added.

"They have cut up a decree by making a trap. We share [with the Tenants' Union] that and that the most important thing is that the mobilization continues, the call for a general strike, only from there will measures come out. And they have asked us to support these measures because the objective is another, that the mobilization continues. The fundamental thing is that the social mobilization continues. We are going to vote in line with what the Tenants' Unions have said"

Belarra has stressed that Podemos is a "tool" in the hands of the tenant unions and that, therefore, they attend to what they have asked of them.

However, he has predicted that, within a month, rents "will continue to skyrocket, people will continue to be evicted and the housing business will continue to be very buoyant with vulture funds investing."