The Socialist Group will register for the next Plenary Session of the Parliament a proposal with which it intends to force the PP Government to apply the State Housing Law and to respond to the town councils that are demanding to be declared stressed areas. Among them are already those of Comillas and Castro Urdiales, whose request, as they denounce, the Executive has chosen to ignore, "put obstacles" and "block" the tools set in motion by the Government of Spain.
The socialist initiatives of the Plenary Session on Monday will revolve around housing policy. In addition to the non-law proposal, the PSOE will formulate an interpellation about the management of the Empty Housing Mobilization Plan (MOVIVA) after the launch of the new program 'Cantabria Alquila', which they consider "is practically the same thing".
"Once again it has nothing more than the name," the socialist parliamentary spokesperson, Mario Iglesias, has emphasized at the press conference held this Friday to detail the matters that will be debated in the next session.
Iglesias has recalled that the MOVIVA Plan was approved at the end of the previous legislature, a few months before the handover in the regional Executive, so that, although it was promoted by the previous bipartite government, it has been the PP that has managed it almost entirely since 2023.
For this reason, when the president, María José Sáenz de Buruaga (PP), described the program as a "failure," the socialist leader has argued that "it was talking about the failure of their own management," and has emphasized that if this policy "has been a failure, it is because the PP of Cantabria has not managed it as it should".
He has also pointed out that the "big promises" with which 'Cantabria Alquila' has been presented "were already in the MOVIVA Plan," such as the guarantee that landlords of rental housing will receive the full rent or that they will recover their property under the same conditions in which they ceded it.
For the socialist spokesperson, it is also "striking" that the PP criticizes the MOVIVA "when it has introduced it in its own Housing Law bill".
"They say it is a failure and at the same time they announce a decree to relaunch it with a new name". "They have changed the packaging, but if the MOVIVA Plan did not succeed in their hands, Cantabria Alquila will be the same. They are dedicated to changing names to their own failures," he has reiterated.
Stressed areas in Cantabrian municipalities
The non-legislative motion that the PSOE will defend in the Plenary focuses on the declaration of tension zones in those municipalities that have requested it and to which the regional Executive denies it, despite a scenario in which the cost of housing "has skyrocketed" and Cantabria set records this summer, placing itself as the community with the highest increase in June, with a rise of 41.6%.
In this context, the socialists emphasize that there is state legislation that makes it possible to contain rental prices, so that "the Government of Spain has done its part and has put the tools on the table, but the PP Government of Buruaga keeps them under lock and key and does not want to use them."
According to Iglesias, the PP's "refusal" to apply the state law, together with its project for an autonomous Housing Law "without effective tools" and the management of the MOVIVA Plan, to which "they change the name instead of making it work," shows that the People's Party "has no intention whatsoever of solving the housing problem."
For this reason, in the Plenary the PSOE will defend with its initiatives that living in Cantabria is not "a privilege conditioned exclusively by economic capacity, but an effective right." "Where some see business, we see rights. Where some prioritize speculation, we defend the general interest," Iglesias has settled.