‘Alea brags’. The passage of the housing bill by Congress opens with a certain ideological solemnity the real campaign for the municipal elections in May. The left bloc has agreed on an important strategic rule in democracy, which is proposed to try and lower the price of real estate. The confrontation between the two ideological blocs comes into its own with this initiative, which will be followed in the coming days by Family Law. The rejection of the proposals by the PNV becomes one of the most striking aspects and opens a side that worries the PSOE. It reveals a deep discomfort of Andoni Ortuzar’s party as they feel ignored by the government’s allies in favor of Esquerra and EH Bildu. And at the same time, it puts the peneuvistas with some allies – the PDeCAT, Junts and the CUP – far from the engine room of power, in a corner that gives much more testimony than is possible. The housing debate is indeed here to stay, although it would be absurd to think that solutions will be forthcoming in the short term. The left will emphasize the decision to limit rents, especially to provide outlets for groups of young people who still do not have access to housing and to develop a viable project. And the right wing clamors loudly for supposed legal protections for squatters, in a caricatural distortion of property rights allegedly flouted by the coalition government. This imaginary, exaggerated and exaggerated as it may be, responds to a battle of narratives that the right is trying to activate to excite previously heated sections of its electorate with a reductionist rhetoric that can be effective. The PP has moved from being “responsible” for the “only yes is yes” law to extreme condemnation of Sánchez’s management, to underlining a catastrophic view of the economy’s progress, and even to criticizing the European Environment Commissioner. for donning the “red shirt” of the President of the Government by supporting the position of the Spanish executive against the Junta de Andalucía in the Doñana crisis. The seriousness of this accusation is that the PP has entered an unprecedented dynamic to disqualify the European Commission. In any case, everything is already involved in an electoral shaker, which is toxic to find solutions to many problems that require institutional dialogue and not public clashes. There is still a month to go and the centre-right sees an opportunity to drop out ‘sanchismo’. First by humiliating him in Madrid, with a predictable absolute majority for Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the President of the Community. The possible puncture of Mónica García, the candidate of Más Madrid, together with the rather mediocre results expected by Community socialists and the fear of a bump from United We Can, which may even be left outside the regional chamber, could be a revealing thermometer of the joint. At a time when the left is trying to mobilize, the balances are complex. The PP is trying to establish its municipal and regional power, but its reliance on Vox could prove deadly. And the confusion on the left could make the PSOE fail. The latest battle in the Senate has not helped Feijóo complete his picture of an alternative. And under that pressure from Ayuso, the leader of the PP is accentuating his most conservative and hyperbolic flank. At the same time, the “culture war” sponsored by the president of Madrid is a stimulus that serves to activate the left’s most reactive audience. Despite the bipartisan crisis, the confrontation between the two blocs is served on a scale, and the municipal and regional blocs are placed as the first test bench. Especially in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville, or in communities such as Aragon, the Balearic Islands or Castilla-La Mancha. The emotional reactivation of the entire electorate of the centre-left seems an uphill task, after months of public broadcasting of family quarrels, with skyrocketing inflation and a high risk of structural abstinence and a punitive vote. But the looming ideological dispute leaves the game much more open than it seems. In a month we will leave doubts.
Source: La Verdad
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