Congress overturns the Government's housing decrees

The Government has suffered almost the final blow to the legislature after Congress has overturned the two housing decrees presented this morning. A predictable final result after the PNV confirmed its refusal to approve the second during the morning of Thursday and that Junts did the same with the first almost in the early hours of that same day.

Firstly, the plenary session of Congress rejected, with the parliamentary majority made up of the PP, Vox, Junts and UPN, the housing decree law that contained measures such as the extension of rents, rent caps, the limitation of purchases to "vulture funds" and tax benefits for landlords and tenants. The vote was 172 votes in favor and 178 against and was held at the call of the deputies one by one.

With hardly any delay, the vote on the second decree arrived (which introduced the automatic renewal of rental contracts in Spain and which has been in force for just sixteen hours), which fell by a more comfortable result: 166 votes in favor and 184 against. The PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Bildu, Podemos, Compromís, BNG and CC voted in favor of the decree, which the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, defended, while the PP, Vox, Junts, PNV, UPN and CC voted against it.