The president of the PP and candidate to lead the Government of Spain, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has reaffirmed in Santiago de Compostela his promise that, if he reaches La Moncloa, housing policies will be integrated “into a Vice Presidency” because, he has stressed, “it is the main problem in Spain”. At the same time, he has reiterated that “what matters” will be to set in motion the construction “of one million” homes from the central Government.
Feijóo made this announcement in the Galician capital, at an event marked by the fallout from his recent conversation with the 'podcaster' Jordi Wild and by the controversy generated after he said that his future cabinet, if it were formed after the elections of November 29, would not include a Ministry of Housing as such.
Before around 8,000 people, according to the data provided by the PP organization, in which it is called to be the main rally of the popular campaign in Galicia, the leader of the conservatives has emphasized that, under the mandate of Pedro Sánchez, the issue of housing has gone from being “in the 15th position” on the list of citizens’ concerns to being “in the first”.
“This has happened due to incompetence and neglect,” Feijóo has ruled, before posing to the audience, as a “test,” whether anyone remembered “who was the first minister” to whom the PSOE general secretary “gave responsibility” for the housing portfolio.
“The biggest problem in Spain”
“That minister is called José Luis Ábalos. Now, I’m going to ask an even more difficult question: do you know what the current Minister of Housing is called? Don’t you? I understand perfectly,” the Galician leader has scoffed, who has taken the opportunity to formalize his electoral promise: “With me, housing will be within a Vice Presidency because it is the biggest problem in Spain”.
Along the same lines, he has insisted that “but what matters isn’t that it’s within a Vice Presidency; what matters is that we are going to build one million homes,” making clear that his priority will be to significantly increase the housing supply if he manages to govern.