Bildu backs stable leases Matute urges PNV to rethink

Oct 2

Oskar Matute supports decree 27/2026 as a structural step for household stability and rejects the claim that speculative returns should outweigh the right to remain at home. He compares the measure with other European systems, criticizes the right's policy and urges PNV to reconsider. He discusses Basque coalition history, honest debate and continued social pressure. His support does not claim the decree solves the whole crisis.

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 President Francina Armengol declared it repealed after a separate public roll-call vote.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.