Puigdemont Fulfills His Revenge: He Will Overthrow the Two Housing Decrees and Leaves Sánchez Between the Pressure of the Street and the Elections
The defeat leaves renters without new eviction limits and lease protections, while pressure grows on Pedro Sánchez after protests swelled into the thousands.
- On Friday, Spain's Parliament convenes at 11 a.m. for two critical votes on emergency housing decrees, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez facing a likely legislative defeat amid ongoing protests.
- Following the televised eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal last week in Madrid, public uproar prompted the government to introduce these measures aimed at protecting renters and halting evictions of vulnerable people.
- Proposed reforms include restricting short-term leases and automatic lease renewals, while requiring property owners to pay tenants 12 months of rent to break contracts, alongside tax incentives for housing construction.
- Junts, the Catalan separatist party essential for the coalition's majority, announced Friday it will vote against both measures, arguing they would reduce property supply and fail to stop speculators.
- Barring a surprise, the legislative defeat threatens Sánchez's progressive coalition, which has relied on Junts as a "prickly political partner" since forming the government in 2023.
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On Friday, the Spanish Parliament rejected the government's attempt to respond to protests about the increasingly serious housing crisis, saying that they will return to the streets throughout Spain and continue with their camp in central Madrid, Reuters reports.
Measures include protections against evictions, affordable housing provisions and automatic renewal of rental contracts
" Shame, shame! " , launched upon learning of the result the thousands of people who gathered around Congress, among calls to the "general strike " .
Socialist government Pedro Sánchez saw the package of measures in the face of the protests of thousands of people in the last week and some leaders of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) admitted the possibility of Sánchez calling early legislative elections
The Spanish parliament rejected the first of two legislative proposals presented by the government of Pedro Sanchez aimed at tackling the housing crisis that triggered protests throughout the country. The...
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his government failed to pass their proposals for new measures to solve the country's housing crisis. The opposition, led by the Catalan separatist party Junts, voted against the measure, and Spain could now be plunged into a government crisis.
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