The Spanish Government will again approve on Tuesday the housing measures rejected by Parliament, which is dissolved today with the appointment of early elections, the executive said.
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05/10/2026
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Lusa
Como the parliament is dissolved, the measures will now be put to the vote of a permanent committee and no longer to the plenary that 'sled' them last week, and in this scenario there is more likelihood of being ratified, according to sources of the executive cited by various spanish media.
On Friday, extraordinary and temporary measures for the housing with which the Government advanced after days of pressure on the streets were rejected by the People's Party (PP, right, greater opposition force), Vox (extreme right and third largest group in parliament) and Together by Catalonia (JxCat, right-wing independentists, led by former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont).
In the standing committee of the Congress of Deputies, these three parties do not have an absolute majority, contrary to what was happening in the plenary now dissolved.
The permanent committee of Parliament replaces the plenary when it is not in office, because it has completed the parliamentary term or there has been a dissolution of the House.
“It is an organ of a spatial nature that is responsible for the powers of the House when it is not gathered”, so that “certain special functions are not left unattended”, this is what happens “with the convalidation of the decrees-laws enacted by the Government”, among other scenarios, reads in the official site of the Spanish parliament.
The measures rejected by PP, Vox and JxCat included restrictions on evictions that would be in force by 2030, as well as the automatic extension, for up to two years, of current lease contracts that would expire before 2028.
The decree set limits on the purchase of a house by investment funds until the end of 2028.
The package also included more tax benefits for owners and some tenants, first house purchase aids, limitation of annual rent updates to 2% (even if inflation was higher) or a regulation of room rental and seasonal lease.
The PP and Vox have always said that they would vote against these measures because they considered that they were poorly prepared, created legal uncertainty and would have the opposite effect as intended, leading to the removal of homes to rent from the market and to further hinder access to housing for vulnerable people.
JxCat has already taken over negotiations with the government of these measures and the decree has come to be given as practically ratified by the media and the government. Until Thursday night, the party released a statement in which it would not endorse the decree.
On Friday, Parliament also rejected a second government decree establishing that leases in Spain would be made to time indefinite, with automatic renewals if the tenant was complying with payments and if the owner did not need the house to live or for the children.
This decree was voted against by more parties and will continue, at the outset, without sufficient support also in the permanent committee of Parliament.
Spain will have early legislative elections on November 29, announced today the Prime Minister and leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez.
The current legislature ended in July 2027.