Podemos kicks off the 29N campaign with three trucks to take its proposals on housing, gasoline, and food to the streets: "A truth like a truck"

One for housing, another for gasoline, and a third for the shopping basket. Podemos' candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Irene Montero, presented three campaign trucks this Friday in a park in Moratalaz. The vehicles will travel through the capital and other municipalities of the Community of Madrid until the general elections on November 29 to publicize the proposals with which the party wants to lower the cost of living.

The initiative comes after last night's opening event in Madrid, where Podemos kicked off the campaign with the slogan "Peace, home, and work". The three vehicles, purple, red, and blue, bear Irene's name in large letters and a different proposal on each side. The party's signature appears in small print, below the pun chosen for the occasion, "A truth like a truck".

"We are going to dare," Montero said, defending that politics should return "to the basics." The MEP linked the decrease in prices to the increase in wages and a shorter working day that leaves time for care. The candidacy estimates these last two proposals at a minimum wage of 1,800 euros and a 30-hour work week. Montero also defended strengthening public healthcare and policies against gender-based violence.

The convoy takes to the streets two days after the general strike for housing and wages, which Podemos has supported, and on the same day that the National Institute of Statistics (INE) confirmed that inflation remained at 4.9% in October. Food and non-alcoholic beverages cost 2.4% more than a year earlier. These are the expenses that the candidacy has chosen to open its campaign and with which it wants to establish its own profile to the left of the PSOE.

From expropriating apartments from vulture funds to creating a public supermarket

Montero has defended expropriating homes in the hands of vulture funds and has accused these owners of accumulating thousands of apartments to "set impossible prices for people and profit from a right." In food, Podemos proposes intervening prices and creating a public supermarket to contain the cost of groceries. The candidate has extended this intervention proposal to energy and has reserved one of the trucks to announce a cap on gasoline prices.

Housing and groceries are also part of what Montero would bring to a negotiation after the polls. Last week, she placed the reduction of rents, the prohibition of speculative housing purchases, and the cap on food prices among the measures she would demand to enter a future government. The first battle is in Madrid, where she heads the list and is playing for a seat. The latest pre-election survey by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) gives Podemos 1.1% of the votes in the state estimation for its solo candidacies and a range of zero to one deputy.

After presenting the trucks in Moratalaz, Montero plans to campaign this afternoon in Palma with Gabriel Rufián, candidate for Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), at the Son Oliva school. On Saturday, she will be in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and on Sunday, she plans to participate in a rally in Seville.