Negotiations on the future

Housing Law

are about to blow up as a result of the declarations of the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda,

José Luis Ábalos

, in which he refuses to limit the price of rents, thus breaching the agreement reached by the PSOE with its government partner, Unidas Podemos.

"We believe that it is more positive and more effective to promote than to impose

and it seems to us that there are elements and that is what we are working on, to bring homes to the market and do so at an affordable price, through incentives," Ábalos said in an appearance since the headquarters of the Socialist Party in Madrid.

"Obviously the most recurrent [incentives] in this case are the fiscal ones, but there may also be other measures that are not [are] imposing," he added.

These words could blow up negotiations that should have concluded on February 19 with the new rule on the table and that, however, have been stuck for weeks.

The Ministry of Transport itself decided to freeze the dialogue until after the Catalan elections on February 14 and Ábalos' words this Monday give a twist to the established script and

could force the president, Pedro Sánchez

, and the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias,

to intervene

.

It has already happened with other points of friction between both formations and sources familiar with the negotiations do not rule it out at this time.

The bridges are practically broken.

So far, the only reaction from United We Can has been a tweet from the Secretary of State for Agenda 2030,

Ione Belarra

, who leads Pablo Iglesias' team at the negotiating table.

"In order to comply with what was agreed in the coalition government agreement between UP and PSOE, both formations have agreed to regulate the containment of rental income in the Housing Law. The agreement is binding," Belarra wrote on the social network.

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