On the housing problem, at the monitoring session of the Basque Parliament

The issue of housing has occupied much of the parliamentary monitoring session this Friday, with the two decrees of the Spanish Government on the table, and two days after the death of Maricarmen Abascal, questions have been raised on the subject.

In his speech, theparliamentary spokesman for EH Bildu\u00A0, Pello Otxandiano, said that "the Basque self-government has the capacity to deal with the housing problem" and insisted that "it is necessary to deal with speculation without waiting for what will happen in Madrid", so he urged the lehendakari and parliamentary groups to work to agree on a law against speculation in the housing sector in the Basque Country.

The president, Imanol Pradales, has replied to EH Bildu that he has a key to the construction of 42,000 homes in more than 100 defective municipalities, and has asked him to relinquish the plot because "the responsibility lies with all the institutions".

Pradales has reiterated that the Basque budgets for 2027 will include three new housing measures and has extended the hand to EH Bildu to support the accounts.

For his part, the president of the Basque PP, Javier De Andrés , has questioned the "poor performance" of the Basque Country in economic matters, which, in his view, is due to the fact that the policies of the PNV are "the same" as those of the PSOE and EH Bildu.

For her part, Vox'sparliamentary spokeswoman , Amaia Martínez, has accused the PNV of contributing to the adoption of the housing decree.

The lehendakari has put the data on the table and said that the Basque Country "triples the state average" of the percentage of public housing for rent and has "the lowest percentage of empty housing in the entire state." Pradales has pointed out that this is thanks to "serious and rigorous" housing policies, although it is not yet "sufficient" to address the housing problem.

He pointed out that, since 1983, one in three housing units built in the Basque Country has been "public and protected"; since 2003, all sheltered housing has been permanently qualified and the Basque Country is "the only community with a recognized and effective subjective right to housing".

The president has also denounced Vox's policies.

The state of the 135 families living in the Los Ochos house in Erandio has also been Hispanic in the plenary session.

In response to questions from EH Bildu, the Housing and Urban Agenda Adviser of the Basque Government, Denis Itxaso, has assured  that families will not be evicted and that the Basque Government is trying to provide "legal certainty with all the tools that really help tenants".

In Itxaso's view, the "Maricarmen decree" is the "biggest shield" for these tenants.