The general secretary of Podemos and minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, attacked this Friday against the owners of flats who rent them because, in her opinion, "they live by doing nothing", from "sitting with your inheritance and collecting rent to other people who have a much lower purchasing power than you.” "That's being a rentier," she said.
In his speech at a campaign rally in Bilbao, Belarra attacked small apartment owners for the first time and not investment funds, and diagnosed that housing is "the main axis of inequality in our society", because "it does not there is a more abysmal difference” than the one that exists between the “rentiers”, those who “will be able to inherit a house, and those who “will have to live rented all their lives”. Thus, he described the rent as "a bomb to extract resources from the lowest classes of our society to the highest", in such a way that the elections of 28-M are "a kind of referendum on the right to housing".
In this situation, he assured that the United Podemos candidates are the only ones who, "when the lights of the electoral campaign go out, are going to leave their skin to regulate rental prices", declared areas of tension in the municipalities , the condition established by the Housing Law to limit rents; and for the IBI to rise to empty homes and reserve 20% of the floors of new real estate developments for social rent.
At this point, he insisted on his message of the last few days that, although now "everyone is chesting out the measures" included in the Housing Law, "no one can forget" that the PSOE has "taken four years" in agree to the demand of Podemos, nor of the meetings of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the "vulture funds".
For this reason, although yesterday Sánchez promised to increase subsidized housing by 50%, she objected that "it is impossible to believe the electoral promises of the Socialist Party", and that the president, to be more exact, should have announced: "We can force me to to increase subsidized housing by 50%”.
Continuing with the distances with respect to the PSOE, he applied to the Basque Country another of his recurring campaign messages: that in that community there is "a very strong conservative alliance between the PNV and the PSOE", which govern in coalition; an alliance that "tends to preserve what is there", with "some few cosmetic tweaks", but "nothing fundamental, including real problems, is going to change".
Along the same lines, he added that, although in the campaign "what everyone promises is quite similar", the PSOE, when it is alone, approves measures such as guarantees for the purchase of flats and "lets the Party do what it wants Popular". Moreover, he criticized the PSOE for raising the ranks of Civil Guard Lieutenant General Arturo Espejo Valero, whom he pointed out that "all the available evidence" points to as one of those responsible for the death of Mikel Zabaltza (she said "Zabala", in possible confusion with another of the victims of the GAL), and for "kneeling before Morocco" to change the historical position of Spain on Western Sahara.
The leader of Podemos once again championed courage and "don't let your legs shake", as she interpreted what happens to the PSOE, to face the "wild" right, capable of overthrowing "the main institutional success" of the left in the legislature, “to bring the only yes is yes' to the Penal Code”. From the right, he presumed that "they are going to repeal everything", and today he directly attacked the vice president of Vox, Javier Ortega Smith, to whom "everything that is not being the bootlicker of an international bank seems like a Bolshevik", in particular the main measures of the Housing Law.
When he gave way to the intervention of the Secretary of Organization of the United Left, Ismael González, Belarra celebrated his coalition in 10 autonomous communities of the 12 that hold elections and in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Castilla y León for the municipal ones, and proclaimed : “The path of unity is the only possible one. In Izquierda Unida and in Podemos we have had it very clear for a long time”. Later, he had no problem applauding González's praise for the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, and the Rivas City Council, despite the fact that Podemos withdrew from the coalition with IU and Más Madrid to revalidate it.
