Public supermarkets, guaranteed income or permanent free transport: the proposals of the electoral program of Podemos

Pablo Echenique, secretary of the Podemos Program, in an act on Wednesday in Madrid.A.

Perez Meca - Europa Press (Europa Press)

Public supermarkets, moratorium on new concerts in health and education, guaranteed income or permanent free transportation.

These are some of the proposals collected —many only synthetically— in the Podemos framework program for the regional and municipal elections on May 28, a tool that seeks to support the territories as a common programmatic base in these elections and that Ione Belarra's training presents publicly this Saturday.

Faced with a complicated electoral landscape, with rising rights and up to six regional governments at stake —Aragón, Navarra, La Rioja, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands—, Podemos presents itself to this event as a “solid and exhaustive” project, in front of to the "ideological lack of definition of other political proposals", as described in the document.

Party sources assert their role in governments these years and defend that the program on this occasion "goes further" than in previous elections because their presence in the different executives has allowed them to "break many taboos."

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The framework program —coordinated by the person in charge of the area, Pablo Echenique, with the contributions of the communities and which must be completed with specific initiatives in each territory— grants a specific section to the intervention of the markets and the creation of public companies.

We can claim in it a public energy company (a historic request that has been brought to Congress in this legislature), and also in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications or banking fields.

Among the sectors mentioned in the document appear supermarkets or real estate.

The formation, which has proposed these months to limit the prices of certain basic products, criticizes that in recent times the large private supermarkets have become "golden" while the shopping basket "does not stop rising."

“This is possible because they operate in a quasi-oligopoly situation, with 40% of the market share in the hands of just three companies.

The existence of public operators powerful enough to compete face to face with the large private supermarkets would, in colloquial terms, make them run out of bargains, being able to offer lower prices to families and more dignified working conditions to workers and workers, as well as better prices for small and medium-sized agricultural producers and local livestock farmers", justifies the text, which adds that "mechanisms will be promoted" so that the public sector can enter the field of distribution and thus generate an alternative circuit based on from the original purchase.

In its exhaustive section on housing, Podemos also proposes promoting the creation of public real estate agencies, —autonomous and local entities for the construction and management of public housing parks such as those that have existed for a long time in Madrid, governed by the PP—, that would serve, they maintain, to "counteract" the "artificial" increase in prices caused by private companies.

The document also calls for the "deprivatization

progressive” of services such as home help, water management, cleaning and garbage services or funeral homes.

Likewise, it proposes to recover commercial premises to make them available to local businesses, prohibiting them from becoming "housing, substandard housing or tourist housing."

In another chapter, the party claims to permanently establish free of charge for all transport services of regional and municipal ownership.

The program offers specific measures also for public health and education.

In both cases, Podemos wants to promote a direct management model and proposes moratoriums on the granting of new concerts, as well as an increase in the budget and human resources to achieve financing over GDP and a ratio of professionals per inhabitant -or student — comparable to the European average.

The document also defends a free public university at all levels and in all calls: from undergraduate to doctorate.

Among the party's star proposals for the electoral cycle that opens in May, presented last January, is the creation of a guaranteed income of between 700 and 1,400 euros per month from the age of 18, depending on the number of members of the family unit. , and that could be requested when less than 2,100 euros are entered during the three previous months.

Although initially it was conceived as a state benefit, Podemos now proposes to implement equivalent aid wherever they govern.

The training program includes, among the measures to eradicate sexist violence, the "creation of a specific security force" to combat it and care for the victims.

"This specialized body will have a multidisciplinary composition (agents, psychologists and other professionals)", reads the document.

Training sources clarify that these are comprehensive forensic assessment units (UVFI).

These regional multidisciplinary teams were created on paper with the 2004 law against gender violence, but they do not exist in all communities.

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