Madrid, (EFE).- The socialist ministers Nadia Calviño and María Jesús Montero have assured that the agreement on the future Housing Law is “practically done”, while the parliamentary partners with whom the new legislation is being negotiated have denied these advances.
In the halls of Congress, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, defended this Thursday that the agreement is “practically done” and that “very little remains” to close it, without specifying more details.
When he was told that some partners deny that this consensus is close, he replied: “If they say no, then nothing.”
For her part, the First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, has assured that there are “very few issues to be closed”, specifically “two or three”, to reach an agreement with the parliamentary partners on housing.
“We have been working very intensively in recent weeks. I believe that there are very few issues left to be closed”, explained the also Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation in Congress.
In this sense, despite the difficulties that the Government is having to carry out the law, Calviño has defended the role of Spain as the country that has implemented “the most ambitious mechanisms to protect tenants in an extraordinary context such as the of the pandemic”.
Podemos and ERC deny the agreement
However, the Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has warned that there is still no agreement on the new Housing Law with her PSOE partners in the Government and that they are not “closer than yesterday” to achieve it.
“The Housing Law is very urgent for our country, but above all it is urgent that it be a good law that includes effective rent regulation and contributes to expanding the public housing stock. Unfortunately, today we are no closer to an agreement than yesterday,” Belarra published on social networks this Thursday.
In the same sense, the ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, has expressed himself, who has denounced that the PSOE “is leaking” that the agreement has been made but it is not true. “They talk more with the press than with us,” he pointed out.
Despite the discrepancies, he has confirmed that in the meetings they have held with the Socialists there has been talk of putting a maximum limit of 3% on the increase in rents in stressed areas but not in the terms in which it is being published in the media.