“Article 47 of the Constitution prohibits it”
The second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, assured this Saturday that defending the Constitution involves enforcing the articles that guarantee social rights, in particular number 47, which refers to the right to decent housing. This is what Díaz defended this Saturday at the beginning of the institutional event commemorating the anniversary of the Magna Carta, which, like every year, was celebrated in Congress. The vice president insisted that It is time for the Executive to decide to “act” and intervene in the housing market, perhaps the main reason for disagreement between Sumar and the PSOE.
In brief statements to the media before the start of the ceremony, Díaz denounced that, over the decades, some of the articles of a Constitution have been “emptied” of content that, he said, was born “in the streets and not in the palaces” and was the result of “strikes, murders” and “struggle” by the working class. “Article 47 has a very relevant phrase which says that speculating with a fundamental right is prohibitedthe right to have decent housing,” recalled the vice president, who denounced that, with the “emptying” of the content of that article, “housing became the country’s main business.”
“It has been allowed, whoever governs, be it the PP or the PSOE, for housing to be a focus of investment, speculation and business,” denounced Díaz, who stated that “the time has come to comply with the constitutional mandate and to act to lower the prices of rental housing.” “Of course, developing a public housing stock for social rental and stability” is important, but “The key today is that we allow people to live with dignity and that there should not be speculation with the revaluation of housing,” insisted the vice president, who assured that “in any city today in our country, renting is absolutely impossible.”
