Sumar demands that the PSOE expropriate the Maricarmen apartment and freeze rents

Sumar increases the pressure on the PSOE and demands the expropriation of the apartment where Maricarmen lived until yesterday in the new royal housing law decree that is being prepared. This text has been brewing for months within the Government and in negotiation with its parliamentary partners but, after the controversial eviction of the 87-year-old woman, it has become a political necessity to maintain balance both in the Government coalition and within the minority partner, where many look expecting a forceful reaction.

The images of Maricarmen leaving on a stretcher amid protests and the wave of indignation that an eviction of these characteristics has generated tightens the ranks of Sumar. So much so, that Ada Colau has called for the Government to break with the PSOE if it does not now take a turn in housing policies. "It cannot be that our political space is complicit in this cowardice of the PSOE. It's over. We cannot maintain our presence in a coalition government if it is not to make the maximum effort to confront the vulture funds and the big landowners," said the former mayor of Barcelona yesterday.

Not even 24 hours have passed and Sumar is making a move within the coalition government. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has demanded that the PSOE "approve the expropriation of Maricarmen's home" in the new royal decree on housing, as well as "a package of measures to freeze rents." The idea in this sense is to recover the prohibition of raising them beyond the CPI as was already approved in another previous royal decree and which ended up being overturned in Congress with the votes of PP, Vox and Junts.

In a coordinated action by Sumar's ministers, Pablo Bustinduy and Sira Rego have also come out with messages similar to Díaz to put maximum pressure on the PSOE to make it move. The head of Social Rights has insisted on social networks that the Executive has to undertake the expropriation of Maricarmen's home as a political message, in addition to the approval of the royal decree law occurring next "Tuesday", after several months of continuous postponements in search of consensus with Junts.

"After a year of negotiating, time is up," stated the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, in a call on social networks to quickly move forward with the housing decree.