Prohens sees political "interests" "behind the strike" and the PSIB accuses her of trying to "demobilize it"

PalmaAltercation between the PSIB and the Government on the eve of the general strike for housing. The spokesperson for the socialist group, Iago Negueruela, has accused the PP of "trying to demobilize" the protest, while attacking a "fundamental right". President Marga Prohens hit back and criticized the socialists for "using the strike" politically, a few weeks before a general election: "You are trying to get others to mobilize what the PSOE is incapable of mobilizing". "Citizens are adults to assess what interests are behind the strike", she warned.

The spokesperson and the president clashed during the control session in Parliament. Negueruela reproached the Popular Party member for the words of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Monday. A few hours before the rally he held in Palma, the presidential candidate lashed out on Cuatro against the protest, insisting that a national strike for housing is "a nonsense that does not exist in any country of the European Union." He also criticized that the protest would take place the day after the State funeral for the victims of the train accident in Urda. A chronological coincidence that, in his opinion, "disregards all principles of sensitivity and respect for the country's citizens."

When Negueruela asked for explanations regarding this, Prohens criticized him for doing so during the Executive's control session. "You come here and you do not ask me questions as president, but you ask me about the PP," she said: "You demand neutrality from institutions and you do not use them to conduct oversight of the Government." Thus, she insisted that "the Government respects the right to strike, in the same way as the right to work," and explained that minimum services have been decreed to guarantee essential services to citizens. However, immediately afterwards she also took a stance, accusing the PSIB of "supporting the strike for the price of housing and the cost of living, when you were in the government of Spain for eight years." "You treat citizens as if they were fools and you insult them continuously," she said. Meanwhile, Negueruela remarked that "workers have the right to hold a general strike: of course we support it and call for it to be held."