The main opposition party has insisted on the need to protect real estate from illegal occupation beyond the current express eviction law against squatters. its president, Pablo Casado, has remarked that it is necessary to accelerate the process to ‘undock’ to a maximum of 48 hours or to extend the crime of usurpation with penalties of up to three years.
The leader of the opposition to the Government of Pedro Sánchez has used the Basque electoral campaign to once again bring to the fore the points of the Law Proposal already registered in Congress in February of last year and which was part of his electoral program in the last General Election of November 2019.
Among the measures that the president of the PP has defended are the to reinforce the crime of usurpation so that they carry sentences of one to three years in jail, after the “PSOE has reduced them to fines.” The Popular Party believes that the current means to combat the illegal occupation of houses are scarce
Also, ask that the eviction of the squatters occurs within a maximum period of 48 hours, and the prohibition to municipalities to register people who have occupied a home illegally. “They are registered to receive social assistance and they are also registered so that their legitimate owners cannot evict them since it is considered to be registered as their home”, Pablo Casado has highlighted to the media in an electoral event of the Basque campaign.
Another of the measures he has defended is that Neighbor communities may go to court when squatters carry out prohibited, annoying, uncivil or unhealthy activities. He also believes that a reform of the penal code so that legal entities that own homes can exercise their right to regain possession of illegally occupied houses.
Married wanted to emphasize that these measures are focused on illegal occupation of buildings, and do not affect situations of vulnerability or social exclusion and the protection of families in situations of social emergency
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