On the left, Pedro Sánchez is capable of proclaiming the failure of the PP's neoliberalism thirty times in two hours. On the right, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has written on the frontispiece of his project to repeal sanchismo. The electoral contest is the death certificate of State pacts and goes far beyond the distribution of power. From justice to education and... that the first housing law of democracy be approved in the middle of the campaign and with the president of the Government caricatured by the right as "Pedro the builder" on account of the advertisements with tens of thousands of social protection floors gives clues to the future that awaits the new standard. Riotous and conditioned by the color of the government of the autonomous communities.
Where Sánchez sees a social democratic way to regulate the rent, Feijóo denounces more "sensitivity" with the occupier than with the owner. But the vote on the Housing law hides other battles. The "legislature's milestone", according to Sánchez, has taken 40 years to see the light of day – the previous regulation passed through Felipe González's urban leasing law or José María Aznar's land law – and it has cost 450 days of negotiation with the partners. With his appearance in the courtyard of Congress, the president limits the role of his coalition partners, leaves the demands of Unidas Podemos in the gutter and deepens the division of sovereignty, with ERC and Bildu determined not to lose the seal of preferred partner and reliable for the next legislature.
The pro-independence left clings to the "first step", the "paradigm change", which Sánchez upholds against a PP that is disputing victory on March 28 and in the December general elections. In parallel, the other part of the political periphery takes place: PNV, Junts, PDECat and even the BNG, which ended up abstaining. The PNV strikes a balance with its vote against: it confronts the PSOE and denounces an attempt to recentralize powers that the socialist Iñaki Arriola manages in the Basque Government. For his part, Junts once again posed with the Basque nationalists, pretending to stand up as a fortress in defense of Catalan self-government.
The discourse of the post-convergent confrontation now turns towards the defense of statutory powers, converted into a red line, and will continue in the processing of the Social Services law. In the Junts executive, the idea that we must go beyond speeches with an eye on the next legislature and with the intention of taking advantage of a parliamentary group that can tilt majorities is advancing. With the PDECat advancing towards the exit door in Congress, Junts foresees that after the next elections it could have more than eight deputies and dispute the peix al cove to ERC.
The Generalitat, with different tenants in the Palau, has approved more than 24 laws or decree laws that affect housing, many of which have been appealed by the central government on duty before the Constitutional Court. Catalonia and the Basque Country already meet, for example, the new requirements on officially protected housing. In Euskadi, since 2003, all social housing that is built is permanently so, while in Madrid almost 3,000 social housing was sold illegally in 2013 to an investment fund. Can self-government be defended together with the PP and Vox?
In the post-convergent ranks, the difficulty of explaining how an alleged invasion of jurisdiction by Isabel Díaz Ayuso can be denounced is admitted while ERC and Bildu support a law accompanied by a catalog of winning announcements for Sánchez. And the Republicans are vindicated. Gabriel Rufián maintains that “Catalan and Basque right-wing nationalism negotiated for 40 years with different governments in favor of their interests”, while Catalan and Basque left-wing independence negotiates with the Government in favor of the people”. The rest, ditch, is "the noise and lies that this entails."
With the successive electoral campaigns, the independence dispute begins in the field of municipal management, will advance towards the management of self-government with the drought and will conclude in the general elections with a competition for who has the best negotiating know-how. That is if Junts, with the future of Laura Borràs resolved, decides to take advantage of the convergent gene instead of selling the house and renting it out.
