Yolanda Díaz in Santiago: laughs with Borja Sémper and distance with Podemos for the law against Desokupa
Yolanda Díaz has once again tried to distance herself from Podemos this Thursday, during a campaign visit to Santiago de Compostela, where she has starred in one of the anecdotes of the day after meeting on a main street in the Galician capital with the national spokesperson for the PP, Borja Sémper, who also visited the town. Both have greeted each other affectionately and have been photographed laughing and in an atmosphere of complicity, although Díaz has subsequently insisted on criticizing the PP for resorting to the presence of ETA members on the Bildu lists as the axis of the electoral campaign.
In that walk through Santiago de Compostela, Yolanda Díaz has also affirmed that “she does not exactly know the proposal” made public yesterday by Ione Belarra, who intends to reform the Penal Code to prosecute companies like Desokupa with prison terms of up to four years. Despite this ignorance put forward by the Vice President of the Government regarding the proposals of her partner in the Council of Ministers, Podemos has already registered its proposed law in Congress today.
The second vice president agrees with the socialist part of the Government, which has also ignored the Podemos proposal. Through the mouth of the Minister of Finance María Jesús Montero, the PSOE has affirmed that the measures on squatting that the party values are already contained in the Housing Law, definitively approved yesterday by the Senate: “Any other consideration that a group makes during the campaign will have to explain it to the group”.
A moment of the meeting between Borja Sémper and Yolanda Díaz in Santiago de Compostela. EFE
Yolanda Díaz has also vindicated the Housing Law and has positioned it as one of the issues that “concern” citizens beyond political “noise”.
Podemos's proposal against Desokupa
The text of the purple ones proposes punishing people and companies that, motivated by the profit motive, “harass, harass, discriminate or intimidate” people in a situation of vulnerability, for which a new criminal offense would be created that would allow the dissolution of organizations like Desokupa.
The state co-spokesman for Podemos, Javier Sánchez Serna, has informed Congress of the official registration of the initiative and has defended that in a democracy “it cannot be allowed” for there to be groups that act “outside the law” such as “parapolice groups”. , acting against vulnerable people and making money from it.
“With this reform we want to put an end to this situation, especially in the face of actions such as Desokupa. With this reform, its members would end up in jail,” he explained.