Sánchez Vows Housing Decree Amid Outrage over Maricarmen Eviction
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised on Sunday his government is working "against the clock" to bring a new housing decree before the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, urging parliamentary groups to make "one last effort" to approve it.
- Maricarmen, an 87-year-old pensioner, was evicted from her Retiro home of seven decades and recorded a video Saturday urging legislation to prevent others from experiencing "what has happened to me," igniting mass protests.
- Demonstrators set up around 100 tents in Madrid's Puerta del Sol after tens of thousands marched Saturday, drawing comparisons to the historic 15-M protests that occupied the square for 28 consecutive days in 2011.
- Socialist minister Félix Bolaños rejected Sumar's expropriation proposal for lacking a "clear fit" in the Constitution, while The Tenants' Union warned it will only accept an ambitious package, not a watered-down version.
- Even if the government approves the decree, there is no guarantee protesters will leave Puerta del Sol; solidarity gatherings have already emerged in Burgos, León, and Córdoba, signaling the movement's expansion.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has promised that his government will approve a new housing decree on Tuesday, following the outrage caused by the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen from the apartment where she had lived for 70 years. Her case has become a symbol of Spain's housing crisis, as protesters have set up around 100 tents in Puerta del Sol, in central Madrid, demanding stronger protections for tenants and measures against eviction…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that the government is working "against a new housing decree, after Maricarmen's case amplified protests against Spain's housing crisis. Protesters calling for stronger measures to protect against evictions have set up a camp with about 100 tents in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, where they were joined on Sunday by director Pedro Almodóvar, who described the situation as "unbearable".
• Hundreds of protesters installed tents at Puerta del Sol following a march organized by the Sindicato de Tenquilinas e Tenquilinos of the capital. • The mobilization seeks to pressure Pedro Sánchez to pass a law decree regulating rents and curb evictions from vulture funds.
Hundreds of protesters maintain a camp in central Madrid after a mass march to demand solutions to the housing crisis and evictions in Spain.
mass Madrid protests over Maricarmen eviction and housing crisis
Protesters in Madrid have spent a second night camping in Puerta del Sol, turning the capital’s main square into a makeshift housing protest camp after the eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, widely known as “Maricarmen”.
Sánchez vows housing decree amid outrage over Maricarmen eviction
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pledged to approve a housing decree on Tuesday following the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen from her home of 70 years, as protesters camp in Madrid's Puerta del Sol demanding stronger protections against evictions.
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