Minority government uses standing committee to implement housing market regulations after parliament is dissolved
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After similar legislative proposals failed in parliament, Prime Minister Sánchez announced new elections. The government is now using the Standing Committee as an emergency parliament.
The Spanish government has once again passed two decrees to provide more protection for tenants. The Social Democratic government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is trying to strengthen regulation of the housing market in the midst of a parliamentary crisis. The failure of similar laws to appeal to the conservative majority in parliament had previously led to Sánchez announcing new elections on Monday.
By dissolving parliament, Sánchez's minority government can now pass the decrees with the support of the Standing Committee, a kind of emergency parliament. According to the constitution, the transitional body with 68 representatives and a president takes over its tasks after the dissolution of parliament.
The members of the committee are selected proportionally to the size of the parliamentary group, although majority ratios can shift due to rounding in the proportion of small parliamentary groups. This means that the government has a narrow majority of 35 to 34 votes in the body.
The tenant protection measures adopted include, among other things, rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions and restrictions on the purchase of residential properties by companies. Sánchez justified the plans with “common sense” and referred to surveys that showed that a large part of the population wanted more government intervention in the real estate market.
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Implementation of tenant protection decrees by the Standing Committee.
Very likely · Within weeks

The Spanish housing crisis, exacerbated by skyrocketing rents and demographic pressures, is rooted in the collapse of the real estate bubble of 2007. Skilled labor shortages and a weak construction industry are preventing necessary new construction while demand continues to rise.

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