The Popular Party president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has proposed reforming a series of procedural laws to enable the eviction of squatters and has guaranteed that, if he governs, he will put an end to the phenomenon of illegal squatting, which in his opinion, "cannot continue".
The new Housing Law sets new criteria to evict financially vulnerable people, especially when the landlord is a large property holder, and prevents evictions without first attempting conciliation. But the Popular Party leader opposed tenants who are not recognised as being in a vulnerable situation.
In an interview on EsRadio, he repeatedly said that the Housing Law "facilitates" illegal squatting and announced that he had already called for a proposal to reform procedural laws to try to evict tenants without this title.
"Procedural laws need to be changed to evict someone who does not have a valid legal title and is squatting," Feijóo summarised, clearly differentiating between squatters and vulnerable households, i.e. those "whose mortgages go up and they cannot pay or who become unemployed and cannot pay the rent. But those who squat will have to be evicted", he insisted, before stressing that, if he reaches the Moncloa, he will modify the Housing Law.
