Iglesias pressures the PSOE with evictions and Calviño accuses him of creating "a conflict"

The second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, defended this Wednesday the amendment presented by United Podemos, ERC and Bildu to the 2021 Budgets in which it is requested to prohibit evictions until 2023. “The stoppage of evictions has very powerful enemies.

(...) But they didn't vote for us to make friends, ”he said in a tweet.

The leader of Podemos thus endorses the amendment to his own Budget that the spokespersons of the three signing parties announced on Tuesday and that surprised the PSOE, his partner in the coalition government.

The stoppage of evictions has very powerful enemies.

Just turn on the radio to check.

But they did not vote for us to make friends, but to push with the strength we have to reverse, even partially, some injustices.

Governing is that

- Pablo Iglesias 🔻 (@PabloIglesias) November 18, 2020

The initiative has not sat well in the PSOE.

The economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, criticized the United We Can movement on Wednesday.

In an interview in Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, he stated that he does not see “need to raise a conflict” when the two partners of the Government agree “to protect vulnerable people”.

"We must avoid evictions, but also guarantee legal security," he added.

"What do you want me to say?

There are actions that what they are looking for is visibility ", he has ugly.

Calviño has made no secret of his discomfort with Iglesias.

The minister has also assured that she would feel "more comfortable with the support of the Popular Party" for the Budgets compared to the position defended by the leader of United We Can, who has always opted to remove the PP and Citizens from the accounts in favor of the parties of the investiture bloc, such as ERC and Bildu. Asked about this, the vice president said that her partner should "focus on what is important" and recalled that "in budgetary matters, the competent one is the Minister of Finance", María Jesús Huntsman.

Nadia Calviño and María Jesús Montero, this Wednesday in Congress.

In video, the audio of Calviño's statements in Onda Cero.

EMILIO NARANJO (EFE) / VIDEO: EPV

Iglesias is aware that from his position as a minority member of the Executive there are many measures that are not as he would like, but there are some issues that affect him more than others.

The housing policy, with evictions or limits on rent prices, is one of the flags of the formation, very close since its birth to the social movements that emerged during the past crisis to paralyze evictions by force of the households.

In Podemos they want to prevent a government of which they are part from allowing, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, that people are being evicted, as has been seen in numerous images in recent weeks.

United We Can and the PSOE agreed to the paralysis of all evictions, and the prohibition of cuts to gas and electricity supplies, during the first wave of the pandemic, which caused a drop in launches of 90%.

In September, the measures were extended until January 31, but then the prohibition on cutting supplies was eliminated and the stoppage of evictions was limited to those cases in which it was demonstrated that they were due to a “situation of vulnerability "By the covid.

This means that in order to avoid eviction, it is necessary to prove the loss of employment due to the pandemic or being affected by an ERTE, among other reasons.

Vice-presidential sources assure that Iglesias pressed, without success, to avoid this modification.

The members of the United We Can Executive have been seeking an agreement with the PSOE for weeks to extend the brake on all evictions, without achieving any progress, according to party sources.

The idea of ​​presenting it through an amendment together with its two preferred parties to carry out the accounts seeks to pressure the Socialists at a key moment for the coalition Government, on the verge of approving their first Budgets if they achieve the necessary support.