The Frente Amplio candidate for Madrid, Emilio Delgado, has admitted that housing policy was one of the areas in which his training did not achieve the progress he expected during the last coalition government, and he has blamed part of that situation on the “Caribbean pace” of his partner in the Executive, the PSOE, in this area.
Delgado, who has traveled to the capital of Soria to back the number two candidate for the Senate, the man from Soria Manuel Madrid, has underlined his differences with the PSOE and has also pointed to the influence that the positions of PP, Vox and Junts have had in this regard.
The Frente Amplio candidate has focused on initiatives such as indefinite rent, a proposal that Pedro Sánchez rejected “just about a year ago” and that he now supports, and he has emphasized that it has been his party that has been “dragging” the PSOE toward approaches that conceive housing “more as a right than as a financial asset”.
Emilio Delgado has asserted the need to push forward public housing and has criticized that, at present, housing is “more for speculation than for living” because it is “in the hands of the market that drives people out of their homes”. For that reason, he has recalled that the fight against speculation is one of the pillars of the Frente Amplio program, together with the redistribution of wealth.
Balance of the coalition government and warning about the right
In another matter, Emilio Delgado has recognized the good macroeconomic data that the PSOE displays and the progress achieved by coalition governments in employment, the minimum wage and pensions, although he has specified that they are “insufficient for those who cannot afford housing”.
Along these lines, Delgado has accused the right of blocking initiatives in housing matters and of aligning with the employers’ association to prevent wage increases, insisting that the country “cannot go back 50 years” but also cannot be satisfied “with what there is at the moment”.
Likewise, Emilio Delgado has warned about a possible “democratic regression” in the event that PP and Vox reach government.
For his part, the Frente Amplio candidate for the Senate, who presents himself as number two on the joint candidacy with the PSOE, Manuel Madrid, has justified his return to the front line of politics by his “fear” of a right-wing government, since his initial idea was to devote himself to reading, taking walks and music.
Madrid has added that the joint ticket agreement benefits "both formations", since the sum of votes will make it possible to increase representation in the Upper House.