The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has held PP, Vox, Junts, and UPN responsible this Saturday for being a "ruthless right that does not care about evictions" after these parties voted against the two housing decrees promoted by the Government in Congress.
During the event "Feminism now more than ever" organized by the PSOE, Redondo referred to the repeal of both texts: one of a broader nature, which included measures to prevent evictions of vulnerable people and contemplated tax bonuses for tenants and owners, and another aimed at the automatic renewal of rental contracts.
The head of Equality acknowledged that the fall of the decrees has generated "sadness" and "anger," but emphasized the need to "keep fighting." "We have to be united, we have to weave networks, we have to achieve a feminist movement capable of putting a stop and setting limits to a ruthless right, that does not care about evictions, that does not care about throwing people out," she stated during her speech.
In this context, the minister defended that, had they been validated, today "the lives of many people and many women would be different" and focused on the fact that there are "many women" who "live on the edge, thinking they could be evicted, thinking they could leave their home at any moment with their daughters, with their sons."
Criticism of the right for ignoring its electoral base
Redondo harshly criticized the parties that rejected the decrees, stating that the right "turned their backs on their constituents" and "broke the umbilical cord of their electorate," reminding that "there are vulnerable people, vulnerable families, vulnerable women in all parties."
The minister reproached these parties for presenting themselves as "patriot saviors" while, in her view, protecting the interests of "powerful elites, often not even Spanish." She pointed out that "all these vulture funds do not even pay taxes in Spain" and denounced that these companies "are plundering the wealth of our country and abandoning people, the most vulnerable people, to their fate."
Housing as a key right and its impact on women
The socialist leader has insisted that housing is a fundamental right and an "indispensable" condition for the exercise of the rest of rights, which is why she has defended the need for a regulated market that prevents the law "of whoever can more is the one who takes it" from prevailing.
Redondo has emphasized that "the eviction has a woman's face" and has considered it significant that Maricarmen is the protagonist of the recent eviction that has triggered a wave of protests across the country due to the housing situation.
In this sense, she has recalled that 85% of single-parent families are headed by women with family burdens who, in many cases, barely manage to make ends meet and find themselves unable to face "abusive" mortgages. She has warned that "when a mortgage is raised, the whole family is at risk."
The Minister of Equality has taken the opportunity to alert about the gender gaps that persist, especially the one that affects older women, who, as she has indicated, suffer "a 30% pension gap" compared to men.