• Housing Law The PSOE proposes a 90% bonus to owners who lower the rent

Many and varied have been the clashes between

PSOE and United We Can

since they became government partners, but very few have brought the coalition to the point of tension that the Housing Law is doing.

Their positions are totally opposed and there is almost no margin: "Housing" is not only a market good, it is a right.

And what is signed, is fulfilled ", said the still second vice president and leader of UP,

Pablo Iglesias

.

The

purple

formation

has raised the order after hearing yesterday the proposal of the Socialists to regulate rents.

A proposal that rules out directly limiting rents -as Podemos wants- and proposes, in exchange, to establish a

bonus system for owners

who agree to lower prices in certain areas and to certain tenants.

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda,

José Luis Ábalos

, has defended his approach, assuring that they are "measures at the forefront of Europe, the most progressive in Europe" and has asked his partners to "go down in detail and the goodness of the proposal is valued. "

However, Iglesias has put on the table the Government agreement and the Budget agreement that both parties signed and in which they promised to regulate rents.

"A government is of the left when it fulfills the signed commitments," said the vice president.

The future Housing Law represents an identity issue for Podemos and that is key in the face of the autonomous communities that Iglesias faces

Behind the position of Iglesias and his party there is not only a government commitment;

They also agreed on other requirements related to aspects such as the labor reform or the Minimum Vital Income and they have not been met.

The future Housing Law represents

an identity and key issue for Podemos

.

It has always been one of his main letters of introduction to his electorate and that now, facing the

electoral race for the Community of Madrid

in which Iglesias has embarked, becomes even more important.

Iglesias leaves the Government with several internal battles lost and does not want the Housing Law to be one more.

Taking it forward with the demands that United We can put forward could be

one of the flags on which to build its campaign

towards the polls, hence its commitment and the commitment of the main representatives of the formation.

Change of partner

In fact, the most tense order has come from the Minister of Equality,

Irene Montero

, who has even threatened to withdraw support for the PSOE.

The Housing Law "could only come out if it goes ahead with the breach of the government agreement with the support of the PP,

with the change of partner by the PSOE,

" he said during the morning.

Montero has also stressed that "you cannot breach a government agreement that is hope for millions of Spaniards" and has warned that "if we all respect the agreement, there will be no noise or tension."

Ábalos is confident that such an extreme will not be reached and both he and his negotiating team, led by the Secretary General for Urban Agenda and Housing,

David Lucas

, trust that Unidos Podemos will reconsider and study the bonus proposal in the coming days.

There are still "spaces to converge"

with Podemos in the Bill for the Right to Housing, said the Minister of Transport, who does not want to consider the negotiations with his partner "liquidated"

The first vice president,

Carmen Calvo

, has insisted along the same lines

.

"To comply with the government agreements is to sit down to work on the contents, that is to be already complying with them," he argued in statements to the press before an act at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute.

The also Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory has ruled out that the differences on the housing law could lead to a rupture between the partners, since they are nothing more than "the day-to-day life of a government coalition." .

Main differences

The main points of difference, far from approaching, are increasingly distant.

Faced with the direct limitation of prices that Podemos requires, the Department of José Luis Ábalos puts on the table to reduce the current tax reduction of 60% that applies to all rents up to 50% and from there, increase the percentage of bonuses depending on the characteristics of the market.

The greatest incentives would be established in the so-called stressed market areas, where the owners would obtain a 90% bonus

if they agree to lower their rents by 10% compared to the previous contract

.

In the case of landlords who

rent to young people between 18 and 35 years old

, the reduction would be 70%, as well as for those owners who add their properties to the regular rental housing market.

Another point of conflict between the two Government partners has to do with the concept of

empty housing

.

According to the socialist proposal, the future Housing Law will include an express definition "in the regulation of the existing surcharge in the Real Estate Tax to stimulate the effective use of the park."

The PSOE wants in this way that the town councils can apply the

50% surcharge in the IBI

(Real Estate Tax) for empty houses that already exist but that cannot be made effective because it is not officially known what an empty house is.

By the way, it intends to neutralize the initiative of Podemos to establish direct taxes on vacant properties.

Regarding the definition of a

large holder

, UP asks that the owner of five properties be considered as such, while the last proposal of the PSOE is that it be a variable concept according to the areas and the characteristics of the market in each area.

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