Iñigo Errejón is the center of attention of Spanish politics. If you decide, as your bases ask, to be a candidate in November, Podemos, the political project that you helped found five years ago, will inevitably be touched. It is natural that Errejón tries by all means that Manuela Carmena adds to her formula. Errejón is only a dissident facing Pablo Iglesias . Errejón con Carmena, on the other hand, is a leftist proposal that could even subtract votes from Pedro Sánchez . As seen in the regional and municipal, Carmena compensates for the weaknesses of Íñigo; with her, Más Madrid took 30% of the votes of her constituency, while Errejón barely took 14.6% of his.

The most surprising thing is the mutation that has led Errejón to be considered a moderate. Despite the dogmatism he exhibited as a student, Errejón was the first to bet on miscegenation with the Socialists in 2016. But his credentials are fearsome.

His famous black scholarship has stood out a lot. But if this portrays his moral fiber, the fact that he accepted to elaborate the work Housing in Andalusia: diagnosis, analysis and proposals of public policies for the demercantilization of housing tells us about his economic thought: interventionist and enemy of the free market.

Errejón was deleted from the list of authors of the report and it is likely that the publicity he received caused it to end up being less radical than its authors thought when they chose the title. In fact, at work they admit "the importance of conceiving the demand for housing as heterogeneous", which confines the radical idea of ​​demercantilization to mere welfare.

This did not prevent them from reflecting their thinking in the text: "This research team shares the perspective that one of the causes of the serious situation of access to the right to housing derives from the transmutation that housing has suffered: from being a right human, recognized in the declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, has become interested in merchandise subject to commercial traffic.In addition, following the trend of increasing financialization of capitalist economies, housing has become a financial asset or failing that, it has supported the generation of derivative financial assets, which have acted as one of the diffusion vectors of the international financial crisis. "

That is, the team that Errejón was in believes that housing should not be a good produced, financed and acquired in the market. Demercantifying a good means subtracting it from the laws of commerce, that is, from the market economy.

If the thesis on Errejón's housing were imposed and these were produced and assigned by non-market methods, by decision of the Administration or by lottery or by waiting lists, for example, there would be much less housing available, as taught by the Experience from different countries. But the worst part is that existing homes would be worth what the bureaucrat on duty said. That means that the main good of saving of 80% of the Spanish families, would be worth what the BOE said. Demercantilization, seen this way, would be an expropriation process. Ideas of a moderate.

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