The president of the Congress and candidate of the PSC in the province of Barcelona for the general elections, Meritxell Batet, has defended this Wednesday that “the majority of the population has no problem to continue paying the rent”.
Batet has made these statements in an interview on the Cadena Ser radio station in Catalonia one day after the socialist wing of the coalition government decided against the criteria of its partner -Unidas Podemos- not to extend the possibility of extension of the contracts of rent for six months under the same conditions.
The president of the Lower House has defended the Housing Law and allows the extension of rents, not six months, but one year, in the case of vulnerable families. And, when reminded that only in these cases of vulnerability, the socialist leader replied that most of the tenants in Spain “have no problem continuing to pay the rent,” reports Efe.
Meritxell Batet’s words have aroused unanimous criticism from the Sumar cadres, the coalition led by Yolanda Díaz. “In politics, one cannot ignore the problems of the majority that one aspires to represent. The rise in rent in Spain is a social problem of enormous magnitude and the decision to eliminate the six-month extension is an error that should be corrected” , has written the spokesman for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun. “I simply have no words,” lamented the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra.
“While anyone who goes around any real estate portal sees how the prices are unaffordable and do not stop rising, the PSOE considers that the majority of the population has no problem paying the rent,” the Housing spokesperson for Housing has also criticized. the coalition, and former candidate of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto.