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The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has placed housing as "the main problem" in Spain and has blamed the Government for the increase in prices, also linking the housing crisis with the increase in immigration. "The main vulture fund is the Government," stated the ultra leader in La Revuelta, where he also assured that the arrival of "almost six million people in five years" has stressed the real estate market.

Meanwhile, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, predicts a participation greater than 70% on 29-N. "We are going to a progressive majority. I have a lot of confidence in my country," he said in La Séptima. On the other hand, the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has defended in Palma a policy based on "order, security and housing" and has accused the Government of "taking a profile" in the face of irregular immigration arriving in the Balearic Islands and of "chronicizing the problem" with the opening of new reception centers. "Spain has the right to decide who enters, how they enter and why they enter," stated the popular leader, who has also committed to "recovering control of the borders." Meanwhile, the PP has accepted the PSOE's proposal that the debates be organized by the Television Academy, with participation in the design of the campaign directions of the different political parties. The proposed dates are 16N, for a face to face between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez, and 26N, for a debate between the leaders of the main national parties.

Santiago Abascal has defended in La Revuelta the elimination of taxes linked to the purchase of the first home and has blamed successive governments for having "little by little destroyed the housing market." The leader of Vox has maintained that taxes such as VAT, property transfer tax or documented legal acts make access to housing more expensive and has proposed eliminating them to lower the price by "at least 30%."

Asked about the role of investment funds in the real estate market, the Vox leader has avoided focusing the debate on these actors and has pointed out the public sector as the main responsible for the situation. "The main vulture fund is the Government," he stated. Abascal has accused the administrations of financing themselves through land and taxes related to housing.

The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has placed housing as "the main problem" in Spain and has blamed the Government for the increase in prices, also linking the housing crisis with the increase in immigration. "It is impossible to access housing, young people cannot start a family and salaries are absolutely far from the price of rent and housing," he stated in La Revuelta.

During the interview with David Broncano, Abascal defended that the Government's policies have caused a 74% increase in housing prices and rents in recent years. As he has maintained, fiscal measures, immigration policy and obstacles to construction are behind this increase in prices.

The Vox leader has also assured that the arrival of "almost six million people in five years" has stressed the real estate market. "These people, logically, need a roof over their heads, they are not going to live on the streets. And that absolutely strains the housing market when only 400,000 homes have been built," he argued.

Santiago Abascal has defended Vox's position on violence against women in La Revuelta and has insisted that the laws promoted by recent governments have failed to reduce the number of sexist murders. The leader of Vox has assured that his party fights the "ineffective rules" that, in his opinion, promote the "confrontation of the sexes." During a first tense exchange with David Broncano, in a tone very different from the program's usual one, the presenter argued that the increase in complaints is due to more women feeling supported to report attacks and violence. "I think there are more complaints because there are more women who dare to report because they find themselves in a judicial, legal and political framework that supports them a little more than there was before," she said.

Abascal has replied that current legislation allows a complaint to lead to the immediate arrest of the accused and has questioned that mechanism. "The laws are not helping to ensure that fewer women are murdered in Spain," she stated, while advocating for reviewing the current regulations. Broncano has also reproached the Vox leader for having been "not very protective" of the situation of inequality suffered by women. Abascal, for his part, has defended that the aggressors should receive "the full criminal reproach" and has reiterated that rapists should not be released from prison.

The presenter of La Revuelta has clarified the doubts about the audience that has filled the theater where the program is recorded. He said that Vox "had a certain fear that the regular audience of the well-known trend program would make the conversation difficult," and for this reason "they requested that they take charge of managing the audience through an agency."

"We are very proud of our audience. But it is true that you have transformed it into a more left-wing audience," David Broncano told Santiago Abascal, as soon as he got on the set. "And then there's a part too. I wouldn't want the interview to end with you getting kicked out."

In addition to the council planned to approve housing decrees after failing in the plenary session of Congress, Sánchez has assured that "there will be three councils of ministers in this legislature if there is not an extraordinary one." Any extraordinary? Will there be anything extraordinary? the presenter Javier Ruiz asked him. "Yes, there are going to be extraordinary ones," Sánchez responded bluntly, but he has avoided stating whether in one of them the pardon for the former state attorney general will be approved. "That is one of the issues that we have in process right now and, in short, you know what is the position that I have expressed, that the Government of Spain has expressed. But I cannot answer that question at this moment." "[The decision] has not been made, among other things because the pardon process continues."

The interview with the leader of Vox and candidate for the presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, begins on the program La Revuelta, on La 1. The far-right leader is the fourth candidate to pass through David Broncano's set, after the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián; and the leader of Podemos, Irene Montero.

Asked about the legal situation of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, one of his great supporters and faithful support in the socialist campaigns. Sánchez has claimed to have had "many meetings with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as President of the Government. Never, when I say never is never, has he spoken to me about Plus Ultra. And I can tell you that it is not about any company." He has said that with President Zapatero he has discussed "politics, politics in Venezuela", but "never about companies." And regarding the jewels, he pointed out that "knowing President Zapatero, and I know him because I already tell him that I have spoken with him a lot, the last thing he wants is to have those jewels again", which are now in judicial custody. "I'm convinced, I haven't spoken to him, but I know him. Come on, the last thing he wants is to have those jewels," he insisted.

Sánchez has flatly refused to talk about his future in politics in the event that he loses, something that he has said he does not even contemplate. "Faced with the 'Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch' that Vox and many of its members of the extreme right sing, I want to work so that on November 29, many people say about this Pedro Sánchez: 'What a son of a bitch!'" he explained in La Séptima.

Sánchez has referred in La Séptima to the poor result that the polls predict for the Podemos coalition with ERC for 29-N. "Social networks have their audience. I think Gabriel is a person who is brilliant on Twitter and is a brilliant speaker. And I have a lot of appreciation for him. And I also have personal affection for him. But I was very clear that this project, the way he was designing it, was very difficult to implement."

"Because at the end of the day Gabriel Rufián is still the head of the list of a Catalan independence political party, Esquerra Republicana, with whom we are understanding perfectly and we have passed very important laws, very important laws. For example, the labor reform," Sánchez said, although in reality ERC voted against this reform, which went ahead due to the error in voting by a PP deputy.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, predicts a participation of more than 70% on 29-N. "We are going to a progressive majority. I have a lot of confidence in my country. I believe that this is a country of hope," said the socialist leader during an interview in La Séptima. The President of the Government and candidate of the PSOE has predicted that on 29-N there will be "a historic mobilization." "It will by far exceed the 70% of the participation that we had in the 2023 elections and, therefore, just as has happened in the United States or that has also happened in Brazil and also in 2023 in Spain, we will once again repeat a majority of progress in Parliament."

The Compromís-Front Valencià ballot, which brings together the main parties to the left of the PSPV-PSOE, is the only one "that will defend the interests of Valencians", without "masters in Madrid", responding only to the citizens with a proposal for "brave left-wing policies". This is how the coalition's campaign for the general elections on November 29 was presented this Monday afternoon by its head of the list for Valencia, Águeda Micó.

The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has just left the Albéniz Theater, where the La Revuelta program that is broadcast tonight was recorded. "It has been a very serious debate. It has not exactly been an interview. Maybe on another occasion I can come to a calmer debate. I expected something else. But I really liked Broncano," said Abascal. The audience was waiting for him in the street, who had left the theater shortly before him. When the president of the far-right formation appeared, those attending the program began to applaud him and hail him as "president." Asked by this newspaper about how they have appointed, Abascal responded: "I don't know, ask Broncano."

The PSOE has celebrated that the PP has accepted that the Television Academy organizes the electoral debates proposed by the socialists since the beginning of the campaign: a face to face between the main candidates and a four-way debate with the main political forces. The Secretary of Organization and spokesperson for the PSOE, Rebeca Torró, who also serves as general coordinator of the campaign, has made herself available to the president of the Television Academy, María Casado, to close the dates and details of both debates.

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has defended in Palma a package of measures to facilitate young people's access to housing and has vindicated his commitment to "building a new generation of homeowners." "To solve the housing problem it is not a matter of issuing decrees. It is a matter of building houses, buildings and homes," he stated.

The president of the PP has reiterated the objective of promoting one million homes and has announced a 60% VAT reduction for young people who buy their first home, along with a "Young Home piggy bank", personal income tax bonuses during the first four years of employment and guarantees to cover up to 100% of the mortgage. In addition, it has assured that those under 40 years of age who purchase their first home will be able to defer the payment of certain taxes while they are paying the mortgage.

Feijóo has also criticized the Government's housing policy, to which he has attributed "the biggest housing crisis that Spain has experienced in decades", and has praised the management of the Balearic president, Marga Prohens, considering that the Balearic Islands are the community where young people pay the least taxes to access housing.