Congress rejects Both housing decrees

Oct 2

RTVE reports that Congress rejects both housing decrees on October 2 after Junts votes with PP and Vox. One announced division shows 166 votes in favour and 184 against; this is not presented as the tally for both votes. Macarena Bartolomé describes Sánchez's unusual last-minute appeal and the political recriminations. Isabel Rodríguez says the text includes 90% of Junts's demands; Bustinduy, Rufián, Belarra and Matute accuse the opponents of serving property interests or putting political calculation first. Nogueras calls for reworked texts and rejects what she calls blackmail. PNV expresses critical support for the main decree. PP and Vox accuse the government of exploiting Maricarmen's situation and making an electoral calculation. Armengol announces repeal, and activists throw eviction leaflets in the chamber. Opening, introductory and closing montages repeat these positions. The report describes a completed parliamentary rejection, with subsequent electoral choices unresolved.

On October 2, 2026, Spain's Congress of Deputies rejected Royal Decree-Law 26/2026 of September 29, the main package of urgent housing measures, by 178 votes against to 172 in favour, with no abstentions among 350 votes cast. President Francina Armengol announced that it was repealed after a public roll-call vote. This is the narrow defeat reported by ARD, whose brief identifies eviction protection in specified cases and tighter short-term-rental rules without supplying an identifier or tally. In the plenary debate, Isabel Rodríguez defended the package as a negotiated balance of tenant protection, support for small landlords and affordable-housing measures and offered urgent processing as a bill after ratification. PSOE, Sumar, ERC, EH Bildu, BNG, Podemos and Compromís backed it; PNV and Coalición Canaria expressed reservations but supported this first decree. PP, Vox, Junts and UPN opposed it, arguing that the government's approach failed on supply or harmed legal certainty and small owners. Those policy predictions and accusations remain the speakers' positions. The separate vote on decree 27/2026 is a different occurrence. Later RTVE and Tagesschau reports recap the same first-package defeat. RTVE’s legal account explains lost eviction, rent-cap, tax, short-term-rental and existing-contract-extension protections and retains uncertainty over judges’ treatment of extensions requested during brief validity. Mercedes’s complete personal follow-up describes a threatened existing lease and her pledge to stay, without a court outcome. Other RTVE political, camp and regional reactions refer to both defeats together and remain shared accounts of two distinct votes; predictions about elections and mobilization are not completed outcomes. RTVE's October 3 complete political report in show 295 retrospectively describes both defeats together and includes Redondo's criticism, Illa's disappointment, Junts's contrary policy assessment and Turull's electoral-interest allegation, with the other parties' housing/electoral responses. Retain these as a shared response to two separately identified votes, not a new combined vote or a called election.