The eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old woman from Madrid who had been living in an apartment in Retiro for seven decades, brings together all the elements to cause an understandable social commotion. But a responsible democracy must distinguish between the human dimension of a painful case, its legal reality and the political use made of it. Around Maricarmen that border has been deliberately erased. We are not facing an eviction decided by Isabel Díaz Ayuso or José Luis Martínez-Almeida. Its legal origin is in the Urban Leases Law of 1994, approved by the Government of Felipe González, which limited the subrogation of children in certain old rental contracts and established exceptions, among them for those who prove a disability of 65 percent. Maricarmen has a recognized 50. The courts resolved the dispute in accordance with that rule and the resolution was final in favor of the property. None of this makes the situation less painful, but this cannot alter the legal reality or transfer to the owner obligations that correspond to the State. The protection of vulnerable people falls on the public powers and must be supported by all taxpayers, not burdened on the assets of an individual. And there were alternatives. The City Council had proven Maricarmen's vulnerability, provided her with care services and offered her a free residential place, which she rejected because she preferred to stay with relatives. The central government, on the other hand, reacted on the eve of the launch: Casa 47 announced that it was studying a solution for a case whose first eviction had been reported for months. The left preferred to create a symbol. Nearly 10,000 people, according to the Government Delegation, gathered in front of the penthouse acquired by the Community of Madrid shouting "the penthouse for Maricarmen" and "Ayuso resignation." Pedro Sánchez completed the operation from New York. During the week of the United Nations General Assembly, he blamed Ayuso and Almeida and mixed the case with the attic controversy. The paradox is eloquent: the applicable law is state, the National Police carried out the launch by court order and the request from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was addressed to the Spanish State. Rather than looking for someone else's culprits, the Executive should explain why, after eight years and a Housing Law approved in 2023, it did not reform the provision that it is now denouncing or articulate a solution before. Maricarmen deserves respect, assistance and a dignified solution and not to be turned into the partisan instrument of a problem that has largely been created by the current left-wing coalition government. It has been their measures that have made the rental market more expensive and created an unbridgeable gap between the salaries of Spaniards and the price of housing. In 2018, when Sánchez came to power, housing was the fifteenth problem reported by Spaniards, today it is the first and most urgent. The law that led to his eviction was approved by a socialist government and another socialist government had years to modify it. But they have preferred to look for a culprit elsewhere.