At this weekend’s congress in Valencia, the PSOE will today approve the framework program for municipal elections, which, among other measures, includes city councils’ imposition of sanctions on consumers who engage in prostitution, without waiting for Congress to pass the socialist group’s anti-pimping bill. considering this possibility. This decision sparked disagreement within Botànic over opposing views between PSPV and Compromís, as the coalition was more cautious about enforcing the penalty and prohibition of sexual consumption.
PSOE sources announced yesterday that a law penalizing prostitutes has been in place in Seville for almost a decade. If any city council wishes to do so, they argue this is precedent, without the need for a national legal framework, because “sanctions policy is within municipal jurisdiction”, while implementing the lead measure as it is practiced throughout the Valencian Community in municipalities like Alba.
The PSOE text includes “encouragement to prostitution” and “fines for those who consume sexual services”, as well as “zero tolerance”. They draw attention to a behavior that “patriarchal society takes care to transmit and maintain”.
As part of the presentation of these proposals, the party’s top leaders met at the Príncipe Felipe Museum on a day full of demonstrations and internal commissions, where housing was the topic of the day for urgency and timeliness. The agreement to ratify the new law puts a lot of pressure on mayors and virtual district presidents facing elections in 44 days, and reaching May 28 with the law authorizing the autonomies over housing issues will be a weapon against the right. who have already announced that they will vote against it.
“It’s not clear that PP said no to a law they didn’t even know about,” Puig told the media. The President acknowledged the Community’s “serious problems” in providing housing solutions to individuals and families unable to access housing. “This law is a step forward, Consell approved the Housing Social Functioning Act, but we need to go further on public housing construction and ensure that a home is rented or bought,” Puig said. .from the first speech of the day. He criticized that “we must do something” and that “what the PP did for so long while in power is to do nothing or support exactly those who created this situation”.
“This is the most serious problem”
There are many references to this sensitive situation regarding shelter. Those responsible for the opening of the day were former president José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero and Finance Minister María Jesús Montero, both of whom have already alluded to what is “the most serious problem the Spaniards have”.
However, none of them referred to any of the issues discussed on the Valencia agenda. There is no trace of regional funding or the Tajo-Segura transfer, but neither the tourist tax nor the punishment of prostitution are issues that appear only in the party’s programmatic foundations. Instead, and with just a few weeks remaining until local governments are reaffirmed, both leaders have focused on sending messages of optimism about the future that we will “win” in the face of the elections.
One issue that was not discussed but included in the 80 resolutions is the arrangement of touristic apartments to stop residents being driven out of the center due to rent increases. PSOE cities “will limit the disproportionate growth of tourist apartments.” This step was taken after the Supreme Court upheld the ban on tourist apartments in Palma by PSOE, Podemos and Més in 2018. The number of accommodations that can be found in an area.
In this scenario, the state of Alicante was represented at the meeting by the mayor of Elda and his re-election candidate Rubén Alfaro, the former minister and the second vice president of the socialist municipal conference table chaired by the mayor of Las Palmas. de Gran Canaria, Carolina Darias. In addition, Carlos González, mayor of Elche and also a candidate, joined the commission dedicated to sustainable municipalities, whose coordinating speaker was Antonio Muñoz, mayor of Seville.