We can is living your ‘housing bubble’ particular. Of the 35 deputies it has in Congress, nine bought a house months after obtaining the seat. Some more acquired it before becoming deputies, but when they had already started their political career in Podemos. There are only 12 deputies in the formation who have not declared any real estate assets.
He catalog of real estate assets of the Podemos deputies has grown significantly since the party came to Congress for the first time in 2015. This can be seen in the declarations of assets presented by the deputies each legislature purples.
From the analysis of these documents it can be extracted that around a third of the deputies under the orders of Pablo Iglesias they have acquired a home since they took possession of their status as parliamentarians. These are some of those new owners purples:
Pablo Iglesias
The leader of Podemos and vice president of the Government is the most paradigmatic case. It was he who lashed out harshly against the former Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos for buying an attic in Madrid valued at around 600,000 euros. A few years later, in 2018, he changed his small family apartment in Vallecas – which he had boasted until then – for his Galapagar villa. OKDIARIO revealed the purchase of the already popularly known as ‘Casoplón’. An estate of 2,300 square meters, four bedrooms, THREE bathrooms, with pool and guest house. And garden, as the vice president himself recalled in Congress when he analyzed the difficulties posed by confinement for some Spanish families with children.
To deal with the purchase, Iglesias applied for a mortgage worth 540,000 euros, whose obligations it shares 50% with Irene Montero, his sentimental partner and Minister of Equality. In addition, Iglesias has been the owner of a habitable wooden cabin for years in a town in Ávila.
Irene Montero
The deputy and Minister of Equality Irene Montero obtained her status as a deputy in 2016, like other deputies pioneers of Podemos. His first declaration of assets did not include any real estate assets. Two years later, the head of Equality declared owning three homes –Two in Madrid and one in Ávila–, a warehouse, an urban farm and a rustic one. All of this, except for villa with pool acquired together with Pablo Iglesias, it is part of the paternal inheritance that he received 50% with his mother. She also declares income as a deputy of 79,000 euros.
Ione Belarra
The actual Secretary of State for Agenda 2030, organically dependent on the Vice Presidency of Churches, acquired a home with a 50% mortgage – shared with his partner, who now works as a consultant in Congress. He did so on October 1, 2019. Belarra came to Congress after the December 2015 elections.
Isabel Franco
Franco came to Congress in the XI Legislature (2016) as a deputy of Podemos for Huelva. She has not left her post as a member of parliament since. In your case, your declaration of assets reflects the ownership of two houses in Seville. One acquired by inheritance in 2015. Other purchased on June 11, 2019.
Antonio Gómez-Reino
He is another of Podemos veterans in Congress, which he arrived in 2016. He is a deputy for the province of Corunna. Precisely in that same city acquired a home in December 2017, two years after debuting as a Podemos parliamentarian.
Alberto Rodriguez
The Canarian deputy came to Congress in the XI Legislature (2016). Now he also holds a relevant position in the Podemos organization chart, in which he appears as Secretary of the Organization, a position in which he replaced Pablo Echenique. On July 29, 2019, as stated in your declaration of assets to Congress, he acquired a home in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Alberto Garzon
The IU deputy is one of the most veteran of the Podemos bench. He came to Congress from the hand of the communists in 2011, on the Malaga lists. Waiter declares ownership of 3 homes and a garage space. Two of those homes and the garage are in Malaga and come from a family heritage. The third is a house in Rivas Vaciamadrid (Madrid) that the deputy acquired with his wife in 2018. The declared cadastral value is 87,500 euros.
Aina Vidal
Vidal is another of the veterans of the Podemos bench. He came to Congress in 2016 for the province of Barcelona, city in which he acquired an apartment on October 20, 2017. For this he contracted a 50 percent mortgage for value of 159,000 euros with BBVA.
Maria del Carmen Pita
Deputy for Las Palmas, took possession of her seat in January replacing Victoria Rosell, current delegate of the Government against Gender Violence. He had been left out in the last elections, when Podemos lost one of the three deputies he had on the island. However, Pita had been a deputy uninterruptedly since 2016. In 2017 she acquired an apartment and a garage space, of which declares to be 100% owner. It does not declare any type of loan or mortgage.
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