The spokesperson for Vox in Congress, Pepa Millán, has criticized the decision of CCOO and UGT to call a general strike of 24 hours this autumn due to the housing crisis and has warned that her party is considering going to court against the "cacicada" of submitting the housing decree laws that the Plenary of Congress had repealed to a vote in the Permanent Deputation.
The burial of those decree laws last Friday triggered the advance of the general elections and the consequent dissolution of both Congress and the Senate, in addition to precipitating the agreement of the unions to call for a general strike in defense of housing.
With the Cortes already dissolved, the Government has confirmed that it will again approve in the Council of Ministers the annulled decrees and will send them to the Permanent Deputation, where it does have sufficient support to push forward at least the decree with general measures on housing.
This body is made up of 69 members and the bloc that supported the first housing decree at the time adds up to a majority of 35 seats, made up of PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Bildu, PNV, and Podemos, against the 34 held by PP, Vox, and Junts. The second decree, focused on the automatic renewal of rental contracts, still lacks sufficient support in the Deputation, as the PNV also rejected it in the Plenary.
In a statement to the media in the Lower House, Millán has criticized that this maneuver by the Executive is a "cacicada" since the texts were already rejected in the Plenary and because, in her opinion, the majorities of the Permanent Deputation do not accurately reflect the correlation of forces in the hemicycle.
"Sánchez has decided to continue twisting the regulations, continue twisting the laws to commit another cacicada," denounced the spokesperson for those of Santiago Abascal, who believes that the Government is again promoting these decrees with the sole purpose of "saving itself" after having caused "the greatest social disaster in Spain" in terms of housing.
In this line, the deputy has emphasized that, since Pedro Sánchez arrived at Moncloa, purchase and rental prices have skyrocketed while the Executive "has done nothing in eight years" to tackle the problem.
Asked about the option to appeal to Justice the decision to bring the decrees again to the Permanent Deputation, Millán responded: "We will have to see it, because it is true that the majority is not purely representative of the parliamentary groups."
Immediately afterwards, the spokesperson emphasized that it is "hardly defensible" that norms that have been rejected by the Plenary of Congress are submitted again to a vote in the Permanent Deputation, where "the majority changes."
The general strike, according to Vox, seeks to "provoke chaos"
In relation to the announcement of the general strike, the leader of Vox accused the Government of giving the order to "its militias" and its "subsidized unions" to "go out to the streets and provoke chaos."
Millán reproached that the union centers, which in her view "do not represent anyone," now support a general strike when they have remained inactive all these years in the face of the alleged cases of corruption affecting the Executive, the high youth unemployment, the increase in the cost of living, the migration crisis in Ceuta, or the escalation of energy prices.
"Now they have decided to take to the streets with a caretaker Government, after having called a general strike for the eviction of a lady that took place on the occasion of a law by Felipe González. This is the dystopian Spain they have led us to," the spokesperson pointed out, referring to the eviction of Maricarmen.