The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, and also Secretary General of the Madrid Socialists, Óscar López, has expressed his confidence in reaching an agreement regarding the housing decree and that this will be ratified in Congress "listening to the cry of the street." He does this with the eviction of the octogenarian Maricarmen as a backdrop, and taking the opportunity to denounce what he considers to be doing "nothing" in housing matters by the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
"The most important thing (about the royal decree that could go through the Council of Ministers this Tuesday) is that it is supported in Parliament. Right now, we are working with all the groups to reach an agreement," he stated before the media prior to the closing of the Education and Vocational Training Days 'Another education is possible in Madrid.' There he emphasized that "up to four times the PP and Vox have voted against it being a decree that could have prevented evictions."
López has insisted that "it is about reaching an agreement" and has expressed his desire that "someone someday listens to that cry of the street," referring to the protest called for this afternoon by the Tenants' Union. "Not all are the same: there are those who put measures in place and those who vote against the measures," he contrasted.
The socialist leader has recalled that the decree "has been approved several times" in the Council of Ministers "and it has been rejected by Congress." "Yes, let it go through the Council of Ministers, of course, but the important thing is that it is approved in Congress because if not, what happens other times will happen, that the right and the far-right vote against the people," he warned, reproaching those who "side with the vulture funds."
"The PP governs for the vulture funds"
The minister has assured that the Government will "continue working to make housing policy, not like Almeida, who boasts of doing nothing." "I cannot understand the insensitivity, the inhumanity of those who boast of doing nothing in housing policy," he censured.
"If they do something, it is to find penthouses for Isabel Díaz Ayuso, then they move all the resources of the Community of Madrid, whatever it takes, and contracts are made above 6 million euros so that Ayuso has a penthouse," the Secretary General of the Madrid Socialists reproached.
The minister has assured that he has "called things by their name" and "spoken clearly" by stating that "the PP governs for the vulture funds, not for the citizens who do not have housing." "All the resources of the Community of Madrid have always been at the disposal of Ayuso having a penthouse, but not for people to have an apartment," he has sentenced.