Mercedes vows to stay Vallecas lease ends soon

Oct 2

RTVE introduces Mercedes, 61, who has lived in a one-bedroom Vallecas home since 2014, using a Tuesday interview followed by a live October 2 conversation. She says her lease expires October 14 and the property company wants the home empty on October 15. After the decree defeat she is disappointed but vows to remain and await any legal claim, rather than leave voluntarily. She says she pays rent regularly, occasionally one or two days late, and pays approximately €480.45 under an affordable-rent arrangement. She attributes the refusal to renew to the property's corporate ownership and low rent, describing a transaction involving Inmo Criteria, Mosaic Propco and a chain she associates with Morgan Stanley; these are her claims. She recounts needing medical help after the Congress vote when her blood sugar fell. No eviction or court order against her has yet been completed in this account.

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 President Francina Armengol announced that it was repealed after a public roll-call vote.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.