Spain's Government Uses Parliament Dissolution to Try to Salvage Overturned Housing Decree
The main decree would extend lease protections through 2028 and shield vulnerable tenants from eviction, officials said.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the Cabinet will re-approve two royal housing decrees previously rejected by Parliament, including eviction protections and mandatory lease extensions through 2028. The executive retains authority to enact these measures until the November 29 snap election.
- With Parliament dissolved, the Diputación Permanente assumes legislative powers to ratify or repeal the measures within 30 days. This standing committee will now decide the decrees' fate following the recent parliamentary rejection.
- The main housing decree would pass 35 to 34 if previous voting alignments hold, reflecting the narrow margin within the standing committee. However, a second decree proposing indefinite rental contracts faces resistance from the PNV, leaving its approval uncertain.
- Governing via decree during parliamentary dissolution mirrors tactics used before the 2019 election, when the Cabinet passed measures known as "social Fridays." Moncloa officials indicated the re-submitted texts will be modified while remaining "basically" identical in substance.
- If the Diputación Permanente approves the decrees, the PSOE enters the campaign season with active housing protections. If rejected, the government intends to frame the opposition as blocking vital legislation during the November 29 election.
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These two decree-laws will be examined in Parliament, dissolved by the Prime Minister, by a special commission, not all 350 deputies.
The Government recovers the two rules that Congress has laid down with 'incorporations' and delays the entry into force of the extension of the rents until their validation
The director of EL ESPAÑOL has denounced that the government uses "the subterfuge of the Permanent Council to impose its personal will." More information: Sánchez tries to annul the decision of the Plenary of Congress with another housing decree and the opposition calls it "tramposo".
By Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español The advance of the general elections in Spain has given an unexpected second life to government measures to alleviate the housing crisis. Although the Parliament repealed last Friday the two royal decrees passed by the executive of Pedro Sanchez a week ago, they reborn
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