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 27/2026 of September 29, concerning stable residential tenancies and automatic lease renewal, by 184 votes against to 166 in favour, with no abstentions among 350 votes cast. President Francina Armengol declared it repealed after a separate public roll-call vote. Pablo Bustinduy argued that stability and justified grounds for non-renewal would protect households without preventing an owner from recovering a home for legitimate needs. Supporters compared it with other European tenancy arrangements and with employment protection. Critics including PNV and Coalición Canaria, which supported the first decree, opposed this second text over its preparation, proportionality, compensation burdens and likely effects on rental supply. PP, Vox, Junts and UPN also opposed it. Predictions about legal and market effects remain attributed political arguments, not established implementation outcomes. RTVE’s October 2 coverage reports both defeats together and displays this second division, 166 in favour and 184 against. Its accounts of political reactions, continuing camp and regional mobilization and the union’s call for organization respond to both votes; those passages may substantively cover each independently identified occurrence. Mercedes’s personal response concerns the joint defeat without establishing which individual legal provision would govern her existing tenancy. Sánchez’s possible electoral response remains undecided. The first package’s specific eviction, tax and two-year-extension consequences and Tagesschau’s first-package-only brief are connected to 3423 instead. 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.