Comuns Sumar reiterated this Friday its direct confrontation with the extreme right parties and launched one of its central messages of the 12-M campaign: the fight for the right to housing through public support. He did it from Girona, where the common people say that they are playing for a seat against Aliança Catalana that could be key in their electoral future.
“If I govern, housing will be the Government's first priority,” promised the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Jéssica Albiach. “We need a law against speculation,” she added before launching a proposal that she already commented on in the electoral debate organized hours before by La Vanguardia and RAC1: “A tax like the one in Vienna. “Let the non-resident buyer pay 30% of the home.”
Just the day that the return to Catalonia of Ada Colau and Jaume Asens was announced, who will join the 12-M campaign, due to the problems in the humanitarian mission of the Freedom Flotilla, the commons shared their electoral program with the press. They will not make a formal presentation of the program, which they have been discussing for days.
In the program summary, the first point that appears is precisely housing. There they promise to multiply the public park to European standards, regulate prices, reduce tourist apartments, regulate seasonal and room rentals and create an organization that mediates in eviction situations and protects neighbors from real estate mobbing.
“In ten years, the Generalitat has not made a single public and affordable apartment in the Girona regions,” lamented the number one for Girona, the former councilor of the Barcelona City Council and current deputy in Congress, Eloi Badia. “We will give everything to stop the unemployment groups that act irregularly and with signs of crime,” added the number two for Barcelona, Andrés García Berrio.
“We have always proposed alternatives to the speculative model and in Barcelona and also in the State we have shown that they are possible,” added the deputy in Congress and also former councilor in the Catalan capital, Gerardo Pisarello. “In the regions of Girona we are suffering from the historical maximum in rental prices,” said the representative in Congress, Júlia Boada.
In a more local message, Albiach closed his second campaign rally, in a small format like the first, stating that the commons are “very close to having a deputy in Girona, like we got Júlia Boada to enter Congress.”
And remembering his debut in the campaign, he stated: “We are risking this seat with the extreme right of Aliança Catalana. Because the extreme right is extreme right, whether it is pro-independence or pro-Spanish. It is hatred of the vulnerable.” Thus, Albiach settled, that in Girona the 12-M is chosen between “Badia or Aliança Catalana”.
