The housing, territory and mobility adviser, José Luis Mateo, has accused this Tuesday the PSIB of, in terms of housing, "watching the bullfights from behind the barrier", even when they are in the Govern, and has reproached the left for "protesting against their own policies".
During this Tuesday's session of the Parlament, Mateo responded to the Socialist deputy Álex Pitaluga, whom he held responsible for the lack of decisions by the previous Executive when addressing a housing problem that, he emphasized, was already present during the Pacte period.
Pitaluga demanded from the current regional Govern urgent actions that respond to the critical situation many citizens are going through who continue to live in tents and in cars. "Announcements do not give keys," he stressed, the PSIB parliamentarian.
Accusations of favoring the richest
In another housing intervention, the PSIB deputy Marc Pons questioned Mateo and accused the Executive of promoting policies "only for the rich". He also defined the adviser as "a pawn of the large investment funds".
Pons criticized that Mateo allows that "no one" stands up to the large investment funds and reproached him for not limiting rental prices or resorting to the indexation and withdrawal mechanism. "Are you sure that is what citizens want?", the Socialist asked from the podium.
The PSIB deputy also recalled that this Thursday, in the Congress, the housing decrees will be validated again, a circumstance that Mateo described as "tricky" because it is processed in the permanent deputation.
Strikes and protests described as unusual
Also in relation to housing, the deputy of Unidas Podemos, José María García, intervened, who raised an interpellation to adviser Mateo. García warned that the housing crisis in the Balearic Islands has "mutated" into one of the main factors of impoverishment of the population.
The Unidas Podemos parliamentarian referred to the "poor result" of the housing measures applied by the PP since 2023, which, in his view, are not aimed at facilitating access to a home for those who cannot afford it, but for those who can already buy or rent and for speculators.
Mateo, in his reply, has assured that he "understands" that the public is "angry", but he has considered "unprecedented" and "paradoxical" that certain parties should demonstrate this Wednesday and back a strike "against the policies of the Government of which they form part".
"It is absolutely unprecedented. Tomorrow you are going to demonstrate against yourselves. In fact, they are encouraging a demonstration against all their policies," the councillor finished up from the Govern bench.