This Friday, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, insisted that the type of variable mortgages cannot be set “structurally” and announced that the Government offered banks “to give the option of freezing for a period”. That same idea is what the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, has defended today, insisted this Saturday in Valladolid in “freeze mortgage payments before the excessive rise of the Euribor in this country”, to avoid “greater risks” and guarantee “a dignified life”.
Díaz made these statements at the listening event that the Sumar platform held this Saturday at the Fundos Fórum Auditorium in Valladolid, which was attended by several hundred people and many others who remained standing or outside due to lack of space.
The leader of Sumar has maintained that one of the greatest difficulties faced by “vulnerable families” in all the Autonomous Communities has to do with the rise in interest rateswhose impact has been estimated at around 260 euros per month that “it is impossible for a family to assume, no matter where they are from”, so believes that “we must act”.
“At Sumar we think that Mortgage installments have to be frozen“, and in the face of criticism that this would encourage non-payment of these charges, he has defended that the last thing a working person does “is stop paying the mortgage, because that could mean losing your home.”
Díaz has also pointed out that there is “a great pending reform” in Spain, which is the Tax Reformwhich in his opinion “is not going to raise or lower taxes” but to avoid “the enormous tax privileges” that some companies have because those who “have the most to contribute”.
The leader of Sumar has maintained that “Talking about taxation is talking about our rights“and has taken the opportunity to thank the efforts of the professionals of the public health, educational or social services systems, “who are leaving their skin for this country”.
And he pointed out that there is “a serious social emergency that calls for decent housing”, for which reason “it is urgent advance housing law, clearly telling the big funds that they have to make the housing guarantee available to everyone”, which he has accused of having “benefits that are impossible to remember”.
In this sense, it has stressed that no autonomy has a public housing stock that would not only place Spain at the level of other European democracies, but also could “be a generator of collective wealth and many jobs”.
Likewise, the second vice president has indicated that at this time of “impossible inflation” it is necessary to unblock “collective agreements to be able to live with dignity” and it has made ugly the great directors of the technological companies to talk about the “year of efficiency” when they announce the dismissal of 70,000 workers because “it is cruel”.