This Wednesday, Alberto Núñez Feijóo established several similes to explain the scope of the anti-eviction measures included by the Government in the new decree approved this week. For the PP leader, La Moncloa’s initiatives attack the private property of landlords without any justification. “What is being expropriated is the people’s right, these types of expropriations are from other latitudes, from other territories,” said the head of the opposition in Binéfar (Huéscar), during a campaign event for the Aragonese elections. Hours before, of the norm that includes the revaluation of pensions and its rejection of the proposal that incorporates the social shield.
“The Government is dedicated to expropriating the constitutional rights of Spaniards,” insisted Feijóo, who has raised yet another parallel. “If a person has difficulty buying, it is not the supermarket workers’ fault,” said the leader of the Popular Party. In front of a shelf with meat products, the leader of the PP has insisted on asking voters, four days before the elections, not to divide the vote. “We work for Aragón and the rest so that the PP cannot have a sufficient majority,” he indicated. “Our project is in favor of an unstoppable Aragon and the rest of the projects are so that the PP cannot win,” he added.
Once the omnibus decree was cut into pieces ——, the PP had already indicated its predisposition to favor the revaluation of pensions and had moved its support away from the social shield. One day later, and once the complete content of the document has been analyzed, the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has already indicated the meaning of his vote for the future validation of both decrees in Congress: the Popular Party reiterates its position in favor of the revaluation of pensions going forward and for the social shield, which includes the anti-eviction provisions, to decline. “It cannot be that the Government of Pedro Sánchez, so socialist, wants the owner of the home to assume the family’s situation of vulnerability,” Tellado said in an interview on Antena 3.
With the most likely Yeah from the PP to pensions and no From the PP to the social shield, the Executive has for now guaranteed to validate the pension increase that retirees received in the January payroll, but it does not stop with the new anti-eviction shield, which has been closed with the PNV but not with Junts and which Podemos is already criticizing for being insufficient. However, La Moncloa hopes to be able to obtain a favorable vote from both the left and the nationalist right when the validation is voted in Congress, within a month at most.
In statements to the media, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, charged this Wednesday against the political forces that make the social shield decline. “I want to be very clear. To the parliamentary groups that vote no to the Royal Decree Law on the social shield, we hold them directly responsible for the fact that there are evictions in Spain,” the minister said in statements to the media during the First Day of debate on the draft Organic Law of Criminal Procedure.
The social shield decree includes, in addition to anti-eviction measures, aid for damage and fires, improvements in retirement for firefighters and the impossibility of evicting tens of thousands of vulnerable families and cutting off basic supplies.
