Housing will be the “fifth pillar” of the welfare state in Spain. The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, continues to bet on recipes to alleviate the difficulties of access to housing in Spain in this electoral campaign. In the central meeting of the Aragonese socialists, in a Zaragoza Auditorium with more than 1,700 people, the President of the Government has promised to double the number of households protected in Spain in the next five years.
“We are going to double the number of subsidized homes with 50% more in the next five years. This is the difference with the PP: they talk about land; us right to housing. They speak of a good with which to speculate and we, of rights”, Sánchez said, before a dedicated public in an act in which there was no lack of first-rate representatives of Aragonese socialism, despite the discrepancies that the Aragonese president, Javier Lambán, maintains with his general secretary on some issues.
The president recalled the comparison of Spain with the European average to announce that housing “will be the great cause that all socialist governments are going to undertake”. “Less than 3% of the country’s total housing supply is subsidized housing. The European average is 9%; or more than 20% in Nordic economies.”
“It will be difficult to reach that 20% in a short time, but housing has to be the priority to reach 9% of the European average. That is the great cause that all socialist governments are going to undertake”, Sánchez assured.
What’s more, President Sánchez has left a promise to the socialist mayor. “Lola is going to have all the support and resources of the State to make the 1,500 officially protected homes a reality”, which she has promised in this election campaign.
Before his own, Pedro Sánchez has drawn up the economic repertoire to oppose the model of “progress” of socialism to the “repeal to everything” that the PP represents.
The President of the Government has expressed his chest about the increase in 47% of the minimum wage, the revaluation of pensions to the CPI, the ertes, the labor reform, the euthanasia law, the housing law or the Iberian exception that has allowed “to save 5,000 million” on invoices to all Spaniards.
“If we have done all this with the wind against us, imagine what we will be able to do with the wind in favor in Spain, in Zaragoza and in Aragón”, Sánchez began at the rally.
Spain is not doing well, but it is doing better
“We will not say that Spain is doing well,” he said, paraphrasing former president José María Aznar. “There are many people who have difficulties making ends meet, there are children with child poverty, young people who have to wait until they are 35 to become emancipated, women who suffer from inequality,” Sánchez acknowledged. “We are not going to say that Spain is doing well, but we will say that Spain is doing better with socialist recipes,” stressed Sánchez, who has insisted on distancing the socialist model from that of the popular ones.
In an intervention without mentioning Bildu or the PP’s attacks on this matter after a week of high tension due to the inclusion of exetarras on the lists, Sánchez has tried to turn the page and distance himself from the strategy of the popular.
Lambán has reminded him, thus breaking the omen of the leader of the PP of Aragón, Jorge Azcón, who had predicted that he would not dare to say it to Pedro Sánchez’s face. “You shouldn’t have any relationship with the heirs of the terrorist band. But the use that the PP makes of terrorism and the victims of ETA is abject, miserable, and immoral. Above all by a party that has sometimes agreed with the heirs of ETA. The cynicism of the PP has no limits, and this miserable and perverse use of victims’ associations is not only immoral but also divides society,” the Aragonese president reproached.
Sánchez has not wasted words on the controversy that is marking the campaign, but has reproached the PP for its policy of “repeal” and “lack of project.”
“The drama is that we have an opposition that has no project: its only project is to repeal,” he launched. “Feijóo says everything under the covers, but then he has Isabel Díaz Ayuso who shows him the way: that the labor reform, the pensions reform, the housing law must be repealed… The PP would finish before saying that it would repeal the right of Spaniards to have rights”, he concluded, to the cheers and applause of the public.
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“The repeal is a return to a past to which we do not want to return. In the PP they want to return to the Spain of 2013, that of cuts and social conflict.
Finally, Sánchez said, “the future agrees with progress despite the cries and disqualifications made by the right.” “The last request: that on May 28 we vote for the future in Zaragoza, in Aragón and each and every one of the cities in Spain and Aragón. SIf we do it, the PSOE will be the main political force,” he predicted.