Agenda 9-15 November
HOUSING, AT the CENTER AGAIN
Back to square one? Last week of the pre-election campaign. This Friday 13 at 00:00 hours, the official campaign will begin—poster-pasting and two weeks with slogans and faces on billboards and on the walls of the streets. And the public debate returns to the starting point from which this electoral race began: housing.
It has rained. Spain is again living through 14 years later a call for a general strike, focused this time on the housing access crisis. It is promoted by the landlords’ unions, and the rest of the class unions have joined it, providing legal backing. The objective: according to Unai Sordo (CCOO), to change the meaning of housing policies, whoever governs, for the coming years.
The drivers. Alicia del Río, spokesperson for the Madrid tenants’ union, emphasizes in this interview with DEMÓCRATA that the strike is nobody’s and that it aims to start a new cycle of mobilizations on the street. The union also presents, in addition, a new legislative proposal to approve a new regulation of prices and punish speculative uses of housing with taxation and restrictions on buying.
One day later. The hangover from the strike will be in Congress. The Standing Committee debates the two rental-decree laws that the Government rescued after calling elections. The one that contains the bulk of the measures will move forward—extension of contracts, protection against evictions, regulation of seasonal rentals and rooms, and tax advantages for landlords who lower prices. Without PNV, and with PP, Vox and Junts against it, everything points to the decree-law falling again in order to stabilize rentals with indefinite contracts. Thursday, 9:00 a.m. Congress
ELECTORAL DEBATE
DEMÓCRATA’s Debate. The 29N is approaching inexorably and, to go deeper into all the keys, to know the programs of the main parties and their European perspective, DEMÓCRATA holds the first electoral debate on the elections in an EU key. The European Parliament will be the setting and will feature the participation of Tono López-Istúriz (Partido Popular), Sandra Gómez (PSOE), Hermann Tertsch (Vox) and Estrella Galán (Sumar). You can follow it live on Tuesday at 12:00 hours on DEMÓCRATA.
ENERGY
Don’t leave yet, there’s more. In addition to the housing decree-laws, the Vice President for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, appears before the Permanent Delegation to inform Congress of the new planning for the electricity grid for the coming years. Thursday, 9:00 a.m. Congress.
Important clarification. The new planning will be approved as an agreement of the Council of Ministers. It is neither a decree nor a legal change that requires Congress’s pronouncement, but the regulations do provide that the Government inform the Chamber. The Executive has resolved this issue in other years by sending the documentation to the relevant committee and reporting it in an appearance. Without a committee—once the Cortes are dissolved, the only body activated is the Permanent Delegation—Aagesen will attend this body to brief the members of the House.
Tension with the grids. Ecological Transition has been holding meetings with all the regional communities for months to review their submissions in the forthcoming planning, decisive when it comes to taking on industrial projects or housing development at a particularly sensitive time due to the emergency of data centers and their future regulation—an issue that is sure to come up in the appearance.
SEMINARS AND EVENTS
At the request of the National Confederation of Entities of ELA (ConELA), Congress hosts the event 'Two years of the ELA law: from the recognized right to the effective right. Friday, 10:00 a.m. Congress.