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Pedro Sánchez's partners have opened a new front, all in one, against the Government's decision to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the Catalan housing law that sets limits on rental prices, understanding that it invades the State's own powers.

Más País, Compromís, Bildu or the CUP request, not only that the Government not present such an appeal against a law that they consider social and progressive, but that it adopt it as their own and extend it to the rest of the country.

Más País even reminds the Executive of Sánchez that progressive citizens are already very "disappointed" with his management and with the "breach of their commitments."

And he cites, in addition to the non-regulation of rental prices, the non-repeal of the labor reform or the maintenance of the Citizen Security law.

For the CUP, "leaving people homeless is an act of property violence that has consequences." This formation flatly rejects the alternative that the Government claims to be designing to try to contain the price of rents because its claim is nothing else, they denounce, than to "reward the owners." The CUP also regrets that there are parties, expressly referring to ERC, that present as a political victory having achieved that the Government does not request in its appeal the "fulminating" suspension of the norm.

ERC, in fact, is the only party, the support of the Executive in Congress, that prefers to maintain a more contained attitude after having achieved, in negotiation with the First Vice President, Carmen Calvo, that the Government does not demand the immediate suspension of the Constitutional law. The explanation that Esquerra has received from the Executive to justify, despite everything, the appeal affects the report against it issued by the Council of Statutory Guarantees even when it is not binding.

This same satisfaction is expressed by Unidas Podemos, mainly by its Catalan branch, En Comú Podem.

The purple partner of the Government insists that now what is up is to pass a state law that protects the right to housing, limits rent prices, forces large landowners to get involved in the relocation of vulnerable people and prohibits evictions without housing alternative.

Junts for their part maintains that "Spain always fails to comply" and "their governments have a bad habit of trying to win in court what they do not achieve at the polls."

For this force, ERC's satisfaction for having achieved that the immediate suspension of the law is not demanded is "to settle for the crumbs."

The PdeCAT, a party that in the Parliament of Catalonia opposed the housing law that the Government is now resorting to, also joins the rest of the nationalist and left-wing forces against the "constant" trend of national governments, whether they are of PP or PSOE, to confront by questions of competence with the autonomic Executives.

The unanimous response of these forces against the unconstitutionality appeal coincides with the debate in Congress of a motion resulting from the interpellation of EH Bildu precisely on the unconstitutionality appeals against laws approved by the Basque and Navarre parliaments.

The initiative asks that the Government respect the laws that the Basque and Navarrese parliaments approve by majority and renounce to appeal them.

For Bildu, it is time to open in this sense a "new democratic cycle" that undertakes a "new bilateral relationship" between the State and the Basque and Navarrese autonomies "without impositions" and "without tutelage".

Bildu's motion is considered valid also for the Catalan independence forces.

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