Madrid (EFE) Julio has affirmed that the “most part of the population has no problem to continue paying the rent”.
Although the president of Congress has apologized for the statement and has rectified it, the popular ones have replied. Also Sumar, through her spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun.
The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, leader of Sumar, has emphasized the decision on the end of the extensions, which she does not share.
The PP: “The real Spain” does not make ends meet
The general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, in statements sent to the media, has said that “rents are skyrocketing and salaries are not coming.”
He blames the loss of purchasing power for the difficulties of “real Spain” in making ends meet.
According to the PP, the PSOE is unaware of the priorities of the Spaniards, which are “paying rent, mortgages and the shopping cart.” He censures the “economic triumphalism” of the Government when Spain leads the strike, has an “unsustainable debt” and is, according to the PP, “the one that has lost the most purchasing power.
Faced with the “populism” that they attribute to Pedro Sánchez, the PP assures that the measures promised by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, such as reducing personal income tax for income of less than 40,000 euros, will help Spaniards to make ends meet.
The PP calls for another course for Spain with measures such as auditing public accounts, reducing the Government or working so that European funds reach the real economy because these are the “priorities of a serious and responsible Government, far from a triumphalism that has nothing to do with the real Spain”.
The PP has promised to repeal the housing law, of which it rejects the rent ceilings, understanding that they reduce the supply of flats, contributing to the rise in prices.
Yolanda Díaz: “Ruling against the people”
The Minister of Labor and candidate for Adding to the generals, Yolanda Díaz, has criticized the decision of the Council of Ministers not to extend the 2% limitation on the rent increase: “It is governing against the people”, she has reproached the PSOE. She has assured this to journalists after meeting with the Taxi Federation in Madrid.
“I negotiated that clause myself, we devised the 2% rate, and today, unfortunately, many contracts may be renewed not with that limitation, but at the risk of what the homeowners decide. That is ruling against the people ”, she has deepened.
Without explicitly responding to Batet, he has influenced his argument: “I insist: in a country whose median salary is 1,542 euros, you cannot live with dignity.”
The person who has directly addressed the president of Congress and number one of the PSOE-PSC for Barcelona has been the spokesman for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, who, through his Twitter account, has condemned the ignorance of reality shown by the words of the socialist leader.
By the way, he has ruled against that point of the decree approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, that of the containment of rental prices.
Robles: A policy that sees “reality”
For her part, in A Coruña, the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has defended a way of doing politics that sees “reality”, and this shows, in her opinion, that “there are people who do not make ends meet”. .
“I have enormous respect for the president of Congress, but I think that reality must be seen and there are people who do not make ends meet,” Robles clarified.
He has defended the “very important effort” of the Government, for which “social policy has been essential and fundamental, especially with the most vulnerable”.
“The commitment of this Government is and will always be to continue working for the most vulnerable (…) We must recognize the reality, much has been done, but there is still much to be done,” he continued.
Robles recalled that there is “a very complicated economic situation as a result of the pandemic” in many families.