Sep. 17 () –
The parliamentary spokesman for the PSOE, Patxi López, has avoided this Saturday setting a date for the approval of the new Housing Law, a rule that United We Can links to the negotiation for the General State Budgets for 2023.
“I don’t like to set dates that later generate frustration. What I want is for there to be a Housing Law and that is why, instead of setting time limits, let’s work. When? The sooner it is, the better,” he said in statements to the program ‘ Parliament’ of RNE.
This is how he responded when reminded of the interest of his government partner in reaching an agreement for this law within the negotiation for the new Budgets. The two previous public accounts were closed with compromises on this law.
MORE THAN 800 AMENDMENTS
In the interview, collected by Europa Press, he has justified the delay in processing the more than 800 amendments registered by the different parliamentary formations. “He has a lot of cooking; a lot to talk about between the groups. This is resolved overnight,” he warned, while acknowledging that sometimes “misunderstandings” arise in this type of debate and we must try to unite ” very remote positions.
“Because what we want is for there to be a Housing Law, not a bad law, but the best possible one”, he said, framing this regulation in “one of the country’s priorities” and, therefore, reiterating the “commitment” of move it forward in this legislature.
After two budget agreements between the PSOE and United We Can refer to the Housing Law – the last to ensure that there will be an intervention in rental prices – the Government approved the project in the Council of Ministers and sent it to Congress last month February, where the groups gave themselves just over two months to present amendments.
THE PRESENTATION HAS NOT BEEN CONSTITUTED
However, despite the fact that these have been registered since the end of April, the report of the Committee on Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has not yet been constituted, due to the lack of support from the Government to carry out the text.
On the one hand, PP and Ciudadanos are frontally opposed to the proposed price regulation, while ERC and EH-Bildu demand respect for the competence framework, advance and deepen price intervention and structurally prevent evictions without an alternative. Also United We Can, which despite the agreement in the Government to present the law, has presented its own amendments.
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