The rejection in the Congress of Deputies of the Government's two housing decrees has opened a new political scenario that could culminate in an early election if Pedro Sánchez so decides after the weekend of reflection. The situation is a window of opportunity for the Popular Party, which is asking for its turn to apply its recipes on housing after eight years of policies that, in its opinion, have turned out to be a failure and that now find themselves with growing social unrest due to the lack of solutions. However, in Genoa they do not fear any electoral wear and tear after having weakened the Executive's texts, since they are betting on measures contrary to those contained in the decrees and they believe that their electorate is aware of this.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been warning his team for some time about a possible advance of the elections that, for the moment, has not occurred; Therefore, in the PP they claim to be prepared for a call with the polls that will lead to a future Government led by Feijóo. From the national leadership they remember what happened in 2023, when Pedro Sánchez announced by surprise that the elections would be held in the middle of July and caught the popular people distracted; and the popular leader recalled this on Friday when asking Sánchez not to keep the call a secret any longer with the intention of "catching the opposition off guard." But the situation now is very different, which makes them not fear an early election: "It caught us once and it doesn't catch us again. We are ready, there is work done," say popular sources.
Although the left-wing political formations tried to put the responsibility for the fall of the decrees on the right-wing parties, especially the PP, in Genoa they admit to not being "uncomfortable" if housing monopolizes a large part of the electoral campaign because it is the reason "why the Government is going to fall" and allows the popular ones to claim themselves as a solution to the crisis: "We are going to protect Spain so that the context is not more complicated than now," they maintain.
During the Housing Minister's speech, she directly questioned the popular caucus, asking them: "Where are you? Why haven't you accepted that we are talking about a right and that speculation must be combated?" He stressed that the housing problem also affects the majority of PP voters, and questioned the party's response to these concerns. However, Feijóo's team minimizes the electoral impact among its voters and believes that it does not transfer votes between the left and right blocs, but rather, at most, "it may cause some who continued to support Pedro Sánchez to end up choosing Podemos or Sumar." Of course, since "the left has already failed", with Podemos in the previous Executive and Sumar and PSOE in the current one, they believe that "there is no alternative" that can solve the housing problem. There is only the PP plan that Feijóo again claimed last Friday after the vote.
In fact, in Genoa they were already anticipating the strategy that the Executive would use after the extraordinary plenary session on Friday: placing the PSOE as the party that protects tenants and the PP as the one that protects owners and "vulture funds." But, as they maintain and Feijóo himself stated last Friday, behind this there are only "electoral maneuvers" and the construction of a story "to call elections and thus try to cover up the corruption that we still do not know about" and what is happening in Ceuta.
Construction and "fiscal revolution" for young people
With the polls in its favor, the PP sees the current situation as a favorable opportunity to vindicate its housing project that it presented three years ago. A plan that, in contrast to the "absence of consensus" that the Executive had during the preparation of the decrees; The popular ones have designed with the opinion of experts in the sector. Among its measures, it proposes building a million homes in four years to solve the problem of lack of supply and thus reduce prices, promoting affordable housing, guaranteeing the security of private property, an anti-squatting law, streamlining administrative procedures by favoring positive silence and reducing taxes so that Spaniards can access property.
The package of measures that Feijóo plans to implement if he reaches Moncloa includes a "fiscal revolution" for young people. It is a population profile that the popular leader pays special attention to and which he called "the most vulnerable", which is why he promised to "pay off the debt" that the country owes them. Thus, for them it is proposed that they pay 60% less taxes if they want to access housing, in the form of a reduction in VAT and transfer tax from 10% to 4%; as well as a "young home piggy bank" that would be deducted from personal income tax or public guarantees up to 100% so that they can acquire a property "even if they do not have money for the down payment."
