In the Government they know that it is one of the most relevant issues for their partners. They will negotiate to avoid amendments to the entire Budget.
The menu to prepare the General State Budgets always ends up being very varied. Despite the fact that the Government’s intention is to arrange a closed letter, with pecking investments, infrastructures, financing… there are always requests outside of the letter. And the Executive knows it. This year the star dish is the Housing Law, the object of desire of partners such as ERC y collectwhose votes seem decisive to validate the Public Accounts in Congress.
The Housing Law stands as a ticket to overcome the first check point of the Executive: that none of its partners present this week an amendment to the entire Budget that threatens to overthrow them, as happened in 2019, when new elections were called. In the Executive they trust that none will be presented by their allies.
Sources from Bildu and ERC explained to this newspaper that no decision is ruled out. Although the channel of communication and negotiation with the Government is open, they consider that there is no considerable progress. The government’s need for votes – it has 153 seats out of the 176 it needs – makes its partners press for political gains.
In fact, the PSOE It already assumes, as confirmed by the sources consulted, that this Law will be one of the issues to be discussed and negotiated with its partners, to make modifications that encourage their support. or, at least, that they don’t threaten to topple them first. As, for example, it happened last year with the Audiovisual Law.
It happens that the Housing Law was one of the great points of friction between the PSOE and United We Can in the negotiation within the Government coalition to seal a Budget pact. The purples They tried to place their release in Congress as a red line, demanding that issues on the limitation of rent be addressed: the extension of restrictions to small holders and that it not only affect the large ones. But the Treasury refused to let it be a bargaining chip and that it be at the negotiating table, considering that the Law had been promoted by the Council of Ministers and there was nothing to discuss within the coalition.
That its blockade persisted was one of the great defeats of Podemos in the negotiation that, however, called for mobilization in the street against the Government of which it is a part to demand its entry into force and seeks to strengthen with ERC and Bildu. Their demands have the support of Podemos. “Solutions must be found now because we cannot wait any longer,” they warn the Government from Bildu.
“I see the cold government in relation to the Housing Law. We have presented clear measures such as capping the price of rent or the impossibility of evicting anyone without a housing guarantee. We have also presented measures that refer to the use of land. The response of the government to our demands is that it is difficult, that it collides with I don’t know what interests…”, was the warning this weekend of Oskar Matutedeputy of Bildu.
“They promised to approve a Housing Law that would cap rents and really curb the abuses of the big holders. Where is it? Ladies of United We Can, where is it? The biggest lever to do this is the budgets,” he stated a week ago in the Congress Gabriel Rufin, ERC spokesman, while Pedro Sanchez he exclaimed “Here in Congress!” from his seat in response.
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