Far from the
vaunted turn to moderation
, sanchismo yesterday took a giant step in the populist degradation that animates its country project.
If freedom and property are the two pillars on which every market economy rests, that is to say, every viable liberal democracy,
the radical left coalition has just dealt the most aggressive blow to both principles in history. Spain
.
The urgency to approve the Budgets, whatever it may be, but now, so as not to put in danger
gro the European funds has led Sánchez to award the umpteenth victory to
Yolanda Diaz
, humiliating the historical position of the PSOE in relation to the laws of the market
at least since felipismo
.
At this point we must recognize that no one can define where the PSOE ends and where Podemos begins in the Executive.
It is not just a matter of the Council of Ministers being a collegiate body;
is that every time there is a clash between ministers capable of a certain technical solvency and populists clinging to their ruinous demagoguery, Sánchez systematically takes the side of the latter.
It happened with Escrivá on account of the pensions, it happened with Ribera on account of the benefits of the electricity companies and it happened with Calviño on account of the increase in the minimum wage
.
And it has just happened with housing: the resistance to interventionism presented by the ill-fated Ábalos - a supporter of tax incentives - have been crushed.
Even the position of
Felix Bolaños
On the eve of the agreement, it was disavowed the next morning by Sánchez himself.
The adolescent phraseology of the "vulture funds" has definitely penetrated the PSOE,
acronym long ago boned by sanchismo
.
The surrender to the purple postulates is evident: rent prices will be intervened in areas that are considered stressed, both large and small owners.
The small ones will be forced to freeze prices.
To the big ones -who have 10 or more properties owned-, to lower them
.
As a culmination, a tax on empty housing will be contemplated through an IBI surcharge of up to 150% that may be applied by the municipalities.
The bonus of 250 euros per month for two years for young people is too reminiscent of
Zapatero's 210 check
how burdensome it was for the public coffers and that the owners had an impact on the tenants.
Investors and owners have reacted with foreseeable stupor.
They regret that the parliamentary office of Sánchez ends up paying the real estate market
, which will not be fairer after this interference but much more unequal and inaccessible.
The intervention of the price of the rents has failed where it has been tried, unleashing a counterproductive effect of retraction of the offer
, increased cost of available stock, dissuasive legal uncertainty and flight from investment, all of which will exacerbate the previous problem.
Perhaps Sánchez trusts that the disaster will begin to be noticed after the elections, when he has revalidated the position
thanks to proposals closer to Bolivarian rhetoric than to the European market
.
This is what happens when survival in power in the very short term is prioritized over any adult notion of the general interest.
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