The President of the Government promises to approve the upcoming Tuesday the royal decree law on housing, known as 'Maricarmen decree', during a rally in Getafe. He also criticises Ayuso for her purchase of a penthouse.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has assured that the Executive is working "against the clock" to approve the royal decree law on housing next Tuesday, a regulation that in recent days has been referred to as the "Maricarmen decree". He stated this during a rally in Getafe (Madrid), at the presentation event for the PSOE de Madrid candidates for the municipal and regional elections of 2027, as reported by elconstitucional.es.
The announcement responds to the request made the day before by Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman evicted from her home this Wednesday, who in a video called on the president to bring a new decree to the Council of Ministers to prevent more cases like hers. Sánchez has pointed out that the Government is working "against the clock" to bring the royal decree law on housing next Tuesday.
Yesterday Maricarmen made a video and asked the Government of Spain and particularly me to bring a royal decree law next Tuesday to start alleviating the housing emergency situation that many vulnerable groups, elderly people and also millions of Spaniards suffering from the housing crisis are experiencing. And I, Maricarmen, have a message for you. The Government is working against the clock to bring the Royal Decree Law on Housing next Tuesday
In this context, the president has asked parliamentary groups for "one last effort" to ensure that the regulation is validated in the Congress of Deputies and has appealed for their support on behalf of the affected and all those facing difficulties in accessing a home. "For Maricarmen and for the millions of Spaniards who suffer from the housing crisis, because it is not a matter of ideology, it is a matter of humanity," he emphasised.
During his speech, Sánchez made no reference to the encampment at Puerta del Sol. He did remember the Secretary of Housing, David Lucas, who passed away last August, and assured that he was negotiating the royal decree law on housing to prevent cases like Mari Carmen's from happening. Furthermore, he attacked the Popular Party and Vox for rejecting it, stating that "it would have prevented Maricarmen from being evicted from her home today."
The president also directed his reproaches at the Government of the Community of Madrid, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accusing it of not having "money" to "protect Maricarmen", but having enough to buy a penthouse for the regional leader costing more than six million euros. He suggested that a similar situation extends "to many other vulnerable people" in the region "and in all territories" governed by the Popular Party.
Sánchez also mocked the explanations given by the Madrid president regarding the purchase of the penthouse and claimed that she has provided "more versions given" about the acquisition than "millions given to Quirón", the healthcare company managing several hospitals in the Community. "Yes, I went to visit it and I didn't think it was bad," he said, before reproducing the idea attributed to Ayuso: "But, woman, how can you think a penthouse with 200 square meters of terrace is bad?" He then questioned whether the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has offered any assessment on this matter: "Not a peep," he concluded.
In another of his criticisms, the head of the Executive stated that "Mrs Ayuso wanted to have a nest, but of vultures", and labelled the opposition to the central Government as "toxic". To illustrate this, he referred to the popular deputy Ana Vázquez, who this Wednesday went to the Congress with a can of pepper spray to denounce the situation in Ceuta, and whose contents, according to Sánchez, caused "half the hemicycle" to be closed and several people to have to go to emergency services. "The woman says she would take it again, if the embarrassment like the insults always comes from the same side," he added.
Finally, Pedro Sánchez maintained that the PP "does not offer an alternative" and that their strategy consists of "playing to make things worse for Spain, better for them". "They have done nothing but put sticks in the wheel and yet Spain has advanced in these last eight years as it did not advance during the years they governed," he affirmed before those present.
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