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Last face-to-face of the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition in the Senate before the appointment with the polls on May 28. The debate is held a month before the municipal and regional elections in which PSOE and PP face each other in an all or nothing looking for the best position on the starting track for the final race to the general elections in December.

Pedro Sánchez has gone to the Upper House at his own request calculating the most propitious moment for his electoral interests, a moment in which with the pretext of informing of the measures put in place to deal with those derived from the war in Ukraine, he has taken the opportunity to launch a new announcement with which to complete the new housing policy that now, At the end of the parliamentary term, it undertakes to set in motion. The current problem of housing arises, in his opinion, "from the culture of the ball and speculation promoted by the Popular Party."

Thus, Sánchez has pledged to build 20,000 new homes on land of the Ministry of Defense. "In the coming years," he said without further specificity, "up to 183,000 public housing units will be made available to citizens," compared to the "1,600 that," according to his data, "projected the PP during his years of Government."

"Change the model"

"Now it's time to change the model so that housing is a right and not a commodity," he said, insisting that during the last four years his Government has built 60,000 public homes and put a limit on rent increases during the pandemic.

Sánchez has defended the Housing Law that next Thursday will be approved by the Congress of Deputies and to it he has added plans to rehabilitate up to half a million homes, the mobilization of real estate in the hands of Sareb and the activation of a credit line of 4,000 million for social rental housing.

With this last promise, the President of the Government rounds off the "most important social shield in history" – 45,000 million mobilized – activated to protect citizens from the crisis caused by the pandemic and, subsequently, by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sanchez has taken heart from his economic measures that have served, he said, to "protect incomes, reverse the cuts." However, after learning today that Spain is the country in which the purchasing power of workers has been reduced the most as a result of very high inflation, the president has asked the business leadership to return to the negotiating table to agree on wage increases.

"The Government has not gone down nor will it lower it," he said before pointing out that what has changed with this Executive is that "it is not inhibited, nor looks the other way, faces the problems and tries to solve them" not as in the stage of the PP in which "the Government was not and when it was it was to start shaking". The president has lost the opposition that "does not bother" and has accused the PP of defending "the same elite as always" that plays has said "with the cards marked" and only in this way are explained "the family dynasties in the great economic powers".

For the president there are five essential things for Spaniards: "A job with a decent salary that is achieved with a modern productive model and labor regulation with rights," as he claims to have launched, contrary to what the PP did, which, in his opinion, was nothing but "squeezing labor and evading taxes to other countries."

  • Articles Marisa Cruz
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