Más Madrid maintained this Thursday that, if evicting “fathers, mothers, daughters, and grandmothers” is allowed, one must “disobey and change the law,” and warned that the measures included in the so-called ‘Maricarmen Decree’ are “just a beginning”.
The spokesperson for the party in the Assembly of Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, conveyed this message during her speech in the control session with the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in the Plenary held one day before the Congress of Deputies votes on the validation of the two royal housing decrees promoted by the central Executive.
Housing and evictions, at the center of the political debate
Bergerot pointed out that what will be put to a vote in the Lower House will make real “what until just a few days ago everyone, including the PSOE, said was impossible,” and affirmed that, if the two decrees go ahead —a validation that, as she recalled, the central Government does not have assured—, “evictions in Madrid will be stopped, rental scams in Madrid will end, and rental extensions in Madrid will be applied.”
The spokesperson for Más Madrid insisted that this Friday the parties will “be exposed,” and posed a political and social dilemma: “one must choose to be either with the vultures or with the people.”
The encampment and the case of Maricarmen
In her speech, Bergerot defended that the housing measures included in the decrees are the result of the encampment, where, she said, “many people have realized the power they have when they come together and have said ‘enough is enough’.”
“Because if the system allows an 87-year-old woman to be evicted after paying rent her whole life, the system is broken,” she stated. The spokesperson focused part of her criticism on the Madrid president, whom she accused of laughing at Maricarmen “wondering at what age one can stop paying rent.”
Direct criticism of Isabel Díaz Ayuso
Bergerot highlighted the difference between Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Maricarmen, and maintained that the regional leader tried to “buy a luxury penthouse with other people’s money,” while the 87-year-old woman “has not stopped religiously paying rent for 70 years.”
“You who wanted to see your mother’s house from the terrace of your penthouse and now you have to see a housing encampment in front of your office in the Puerta del Sol. Blessed youth,” she concluded.