Housing.We can open another front of tension in the Government by proposing the intervention in the empty flats
Sanchez Coalition makes Iglesias' life bitter
Politics: The PSOE assumes that the confrontation with Podemos will be constant throughout the legislature
Vice President Pablo Iglesias is convinced that, with 35 deputies and United Podemos being the minority partner of the Government, his strategy to try to set a profile and not be absorbed by the PSOE only involves pressuring the socialists to achieve measures that he can sell to his electorate or, at least, comply with the government pact.
In this framework, the purple leader has anticipated to his own, during the
Podemos
Executive
, the new fronts that are looming in the Government: the housing law and its intention to extend the prohibition of evictions and supply cuts beyond the state alarm, May.
The approval of the Budgets for 2021 has granted stability to the
Government
, not tranquility.
The different positions of the partners on the significance of some measures make debate and tension one more element of the coalition.
United We can not only claim the paternity of some measures - the so-called "social shield" or the ERTE, despite the fact that
Moncloa
excluded Minister Yolanda Díaz from this week's press conference - but also announces war drums before their claims and what he foresees are resistance from the PSOE.
"If anyone thinks that we are going to agree that as of May they can be evicted without alternative housing or short basic supplies -water, electricity, gas ...-... We are going to press for these measures to be maintained", It has been the notice of Iglesias to his partners in the PSOE.
These are measures that have already caused more than one confrontation between the
purple
ministers
and the socialist sector.
But Iglesias is determined not to give in.
Without waiting for May, the negotiation of the housing law that the Ministry of
Transport
and the Social Vice Presidency are
weaving
is already an example of distant and conflicting positions.
The position of Podemos is that the Government can make use of currently empty or unoccupied homes to increase the public housing stock or settle definitively that the rental price can be regulated in stressed areas, among other measures.
"We have deep discrepancies and reaching an agreement is not going to be easy," anticipates Iglesias.
"We are going to be big heads. It is at stake that housing ceases to be a speculative asset and becomes a social right. It is not bought from us."
Confrontation with the media
The vice president has recently recovered the conspiracy theory of the "economic and media powers" that seek to dislodge Podemos from the Government and its measures.
"The real estate employers have a lot of power and they exercise it so that limits are not put on them. They do it directly or through their media arms."
Iglesias recovers his harshest profile against the media, whom he accuses, in a general way, of going against his interests.
"The attacks and pressures that we are going to receive from the media power will be enormous and they will continue to manufacture all kinds of scandals based on elements that have no legal basis or path."
These days the vice president is piloting his strategy of confrontation with the media in the fact that the Supreme Court has decided to return the proceedings on the 'Dina case' to Judge Manuel García Castellón, rejecting the imputation that he requested.
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