• Housing The PSOE proposes a 90% discount for owners who lower the rent

  • Housing PSOE and Podemos try to reduce the tension over the Housing Law to avoid breaking the negotiations

The hasty and forced departure of Pablo Iglesias from the Government not only prevents him from fulfilling his objective of leaving with the approved Housing Law, but also represents an

unexpected setback in the negotiation

between PSOE and United We Can.

Some voices believe that this could weaken his party's position at the dialogue table, however the future Minister of Social Rights,

Ione Belarra

, has taken a step forward and hastened to clear up any doubts.

"

I promise to continue fighting in the front line

and to have that law with the regulation of prices as soon as possible," said the still Secretary of State for Agenda 2030 in an interview in

La Hora de La 1

.

And he issues a warning to the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda,

José Luis Ábalos: "I do not contemplate that the Government agreement can be breached."

Belarra has admitted that Iglesias' intention was to go to the electoral race in Madrid "with the work that we have in hand as finished as possible", but the Community regulations oblige him to leave his post even earlier than he had planned. and that forces to

recalculate the roadmap

.

"His departure will occur without the law being terminated," he

said.

For now, Belarra herself and

David Lucas (

Secretary General of Urban Agenda and Housing), who lead the Vice Presidency and Transport teams, respectively,

will meet again next Monday

to try to bring positions closer and reduce tension at a time when the proposals are very distant with respect to the content of the future law.

The rent limit has opened a schism between the two government partners that not only puts the future of the law at risk, but also threatens to

destabilize the Executive itself

.

"Right now what we are talking about is whether the government agreement is fulfilled or not.

The agreement is very clear: put a ceiling on the abusive increases in rent prices

. You have to puncture the rent bubble and puncture it has to do with regulate prices as is being done in France, Germany, Italy or dozens of EU countries, "Belarra warned.

And in case there were doubts about what they understand as "regulating rents", the future minister has reminded Minister

Ábalos

: "The regulation of rental prices is to set a ceiling price above which in stressed market areas You cannot charge a rent above that. Incentives are an antisocial and ineffective measure, "he added, also relying on a report by the

Gestha

Finance

Technicians

that criticizes the results of the incentive model implemented in Portugal.

Draft differences

The PSOE proposes a formula based on bonuses and tax incentives for owners who lower rents, while UP demands that maximum limits be established in the most stressed areas.

And neither one nor the other is willing to give in.

In Belarra's view, the tax incentives mean "subsidizing the rent bubble with public money and that instead of paying the tenants, they pay the taxes of all Spanish men and women."

However, and despite the differences between one partner and another, no one in the background contemplates getting up from the table and breaking up the negotiations.

For the PSOE, it would be a failure in the face of one of the political flags that Pedro Sánchez clung to as soon as Pedro Sánchez arrived in La Moncloa, and for Unidas Podemos it would be to breach one of his identity promises before his electorate.

That is why Ábalos reached out his hand last Monday in an attempt to reduce tension and assured that "the law will be born from the agreement because we socialists govern seriously and fulfill our commitments and

I believe that finally, after all the controversies, we will reach an agreement

" .

And that is why Belarra also spoke in the same direction on Wednesday.

"It is costing a lot because it is difficult for the PSOE to comply with the agreement, but I

do not contemplate that this agreement can be breached

and I think we will have it sooner rather than later."

At this point, the rule should be between the Council of Ministers and the Congress of Deputies, however neither party nor the other dare to set new dates.

"The important thing is that it goes ahead and its content," say sources of the negotiations.

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