MADRID, 29 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister for Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has assured that she sees the will in the PSOE to move forward with the Housing Law despite the fact that, she says, there are “adjacent interests” that have made it difficult for it to be approved by the Council of Ministers.
The Housing bill was slow to come out of the Council of Ministers due to differences between the two government partners. It came to Congress in February 2022, and after overcoming the entire debate in March, it took two months for the presentation of partial amendments to be given free rein, and all despite the fact that the two government partners requested that it be processed urgently. .
And in May United We Can presented a series of amendments to modify the text that had been agreed within the Council of Ministers, which once again paralyzed the processing of the bill. In recent weeks, it seems that positions have been approaching.
For this reason, Belarra pointed out in an interview on the ‘Salvados’ de la Sexta program, collected by Europa Press, that there has been “important resistance” from the PSOE or from “adjacent interests” that have made the approval of the law very difficult, although he has affirmed that progress has been made “much more than what the real estate employers would have liked”.
According to the minister, UP and PSOE agree “on quite a few things” and there are “very positive” elements of the law, although it is not the one that he would have liked to carry out. “It is not the panacea”, she has recognized herself.
“With the PSOE we have put together a consensus that is the one that came out in the Council of Ministers and we are satisfied,” he clarified. That said, he has insisted that the next step is to build a majority with the other parliamentary groups that have proposed “very sensible things”, among which he has named EH Bildu and ERC, such as price regulation and the protection of citizens against the evictions.
“There is a part of the PSOE committed to ensuring that these advances take place,” he stressed. Thus, asked what would happen if the legislature runs out and finally this law is not approved in Congress, the minister has insisted that she is not working in that scenario and that the legislature will reach December.
“There is a will in the PSOE to push this law forward. The Ministry of Transport is pushing. Everyone will have to give in, it will not be perfect for anyone but at this moment there is a will to agree,” he added.