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(38,893 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:52 PM Nov 2012

Spain's politicians pledge to stop evictions after suicide [View all]

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Spain's politicians pledge to stop evictions after suicide
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE8A90F620121110 …
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's conservative prime minister and the leader of the opposition aim to agree measures on Monday to stop banks evicting homeowners after a woman's suicide before her property was repossessed caused public outrage.

"No one should be without a home for not being able to pay," Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, leader of the opposition Socialist Party said on Saturday.

Northern Spanish mortgage lender Kutxabank said it was suspending repossessions after 53-year-old former Socialist councillor Amaia Egana threw herself out of her fourth-storey apartment window in Barakaldo in the Basque Country as court officials came up the stairs to evict her on Friday.

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Spain's politicians pledge to stop evictions after suicide [View all] Fire Walk With Me Nov 2012 OP

Oh my gosh. Bless them! tblue Nov 2012 #1

Too bad that people have to die before their governments act. But at least Spain still sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #2