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The Spanish Congress rejects the housing emergency decree

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The Spanish Congress rejected the decree on measures against the housing emergency with 178 votes against.
The decision, driven by the Junts for Catalunya vote, sparked immediate protests outside Parliament in Madrid.

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The decree aimed to introduce measures to combat the housing emergency in Spain. The vote was blocked by the right-wing opposition and the decisive vote of Junts for Catalunya.

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The Spanish Congress rejected the decree of measures against the housing emergency with 172 votes in favor and 178 against from the right, Popular Party and Vox, and the decisive votes of the 7 deputies of the Catalanist Junts for Catalunya force.

Immediately after the vote, outside Parliament, in the Carrera de San Geronimo, where activists from the tenants' unions and thousands of citizens who had been camped out for days in Puerta del Sol had been demonstrating since this morning, shouts of protest were raised: 'Your profits, our misery!' and 'General strike now!'.

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