The PP and Junts put the PSOE spokesperson in the crosshairs over her partner's real estate business

BarcelonaPedro Sánchez pressed the button for the snap election due to the housing emergency the State is experiencing, personified by the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, who died a few days later. Housing and, specifically, rents have been at the center of the political debate since then, and the PSOE is trying to position itself as the guarantor of citizens' interests and against speculators. The socialist spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has been one of the most belligerent in this debate, and now she is precisely the one most singled out by the PP and Junts, once it was published that her partner has a real estate business with dozens of rental apartments. "It is a family business that is dedicated to rentals and complies with the Catalonia housing law," Mínguez justified this Tuesday in an interview on the programEspejo Públicoon Antena 3. The digital media outlet Artículo 14 had published shortly before that her partner has at least one real estate company, Nest Capital, which manages 8 million euros in assets and between 20 and 30 rental apartments. This Wednesday, the same media outlet expanded the information, pointing out that he would have three more companies dedicated to real estate management.

"Personal attack is the worst thing in politics," reacted Mínguez to the information published by the media outlet. "We are not against companies or against landlords, but rather to limit the seemingly infinite rise in rents and to protect vulnerable people," the socialist spokesperson stressed. "If a person does not pay, they are evicted. If a person is vulnerable, they are protected," she added.

A few days ago, she herself vehemently defended that the most important thing in the upcoming Spanish elections will be to ensure that "housing is considered a right and not a business," and from the Congress tribune, during the recent debate on the two housing decrees of the Spanish government, Mínguez harshly attacked the vote against by the PP, Junts, and Vox: "Masks off. It is normal that you do not like it, but say so. Here it is a matter of vulture funds or families, of speculation or supporting the social majority."

The PP and also Junts have not missed the opportunity to put Mínguez in the crosshairs, pointing out what they consider a flagrant contradiction. The Popular Party members have made several videos on social media mixing moments in which the spokesperson attacked speculators with the explanations she gave on Espejo Público defending her partner's "family business." They have even requested a debate with her on housing policies.

Regarding the 'juntaires', they have recalled that they opposed the Moncloa decrees, among other reasons because they did not prevent investment funds from acquiring apartments and speculating with them. "The royal decree allows funds to continue buying, speculating, and evicting. They haven't dared to take on the funds," said the spokesperson for Junts, Miriam Nogueras, in the debate in the hemicycle a couple of weeks ago. "Now we know why," the 'juntaires' point out in the video in which they collect reactions to Mínguez regarding the news about his partner's real estate company.

Socialist sources prefer not to enter the debate and limit themselves to saying that the valid answers are those that Mínguez herself gave to Antena 3 when she was asked about the topic.