The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has expressed her confidence that there is "room for understanding" for the new housing decree to move forward, although she has admitted that a potential rejection by the socialist sector of the Executive would mark "a turning point."
Rego explained this Thursday that Sumar is drafting the new housing decree based on "a scenario" in which their coalition partner will ultimately support the initiative. "We will see what happens from now until Tuesday," she noted in an interview on 'El Intermedio' of La Sexta, reported by Europa Press.
However, when questioned about a possible break with the PSOE if the text does not progress in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, the minister indicated that "a scenario would open that represents a turning point and opens a debate."
"I want to believe that there is room for us to understand each other and for this to move forward. I want to believe that some parliamentary forces will change their position, and it will move forward and this royal decree will be ratified," she emphasized.
The head of Youth and Childhood also recalled that Sumar's part in the Government already pressured their partner last March when they refused to participate in a Council of Ministers meeting to demand that housing measures be included in the anti-crisis package due to the war in Iran. "It seemed unacceptable to us that there was no royal decree to protect people," Rego stressed.
Additionally, she referred to the case of Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman evicted in the Retiro district (Madrid), which she described as "something terrible" and that "calls us all who are in public policy and have some responsibility." In this regard, she admitted that there is "a part of responsibility" that also falls on the Executive. "We have to take charge," she insisted.
Rego defended that the housing decree incorporate an instrument that allows for the expropriation of properties in cases of special vulnerability: "We are studying the formula."
When asked why the decree has not been approved earlier, she assured that Sumar has worked "from minute one" to promote a housing policy "much sharper." Nevertheless, she pointed to the correlation of forces both within the Government and in Congress, emphasizing that parliamentary representation "matters when it comes to doing politics."
"Change" the relationship with Morocco
In another order of things, Rego has once again pointed to Morocco for the massive entry of thousands of people in Ceuta and has stated that "80,000 people do not move if they enter Ceuta without Morocco having some knowledge of it," inviting to "change a certain type of relationship" that Spain maintains "in general terms" with the Alaouite kingdom.
With everything, he has described the current migration crisis as "a failure of the model of European migration policy" due to the decision to "externalize borders" and "militarize them."
The minister has detailed that at this moment there are 2,300 unaccompanied migrant minors within the reception system and that the Police "estimate that there could be around 500 children in a street situation" in Ceuta.
A reality that he has labeled as "unjustifiable" and to which he has urged the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, to "sign" the transfer of these minors to the Peninsula, since "the part that the Government can do is done": "We have the places."
He has also highlighted that communication between the Ministry and the Ceutí Executive is constant —"we talk practically every day"— while reproaching that there is "certain willingness" in "the daily work" but that "publicly" the "statements" are "different."