Housing decree showdown turns into harsh rebuke of Junts, PP and Vox

Protesters from the Puerta del Sol encampment flooded the streets around the Congress while deputies debated two housing decrees intended to curb evictions, including the high-profile case of an 87-year-old woman named Maricarmen. The government’s Housing Minister Isabel Rodríguez listed the concessions Junts had secured in the draft and offered a decree-law amendment mechanism, but Junts leader Miriam Nogueras refused to back the text, arguing it would not solve the problem.

The vote sparked a wave of denunciations from the left, with Águeda Micó of Compromís and Gabriel Rufián of ERC branding Junts, the PP and Vox as allies of predatory funds. Patxi López of the PSOE and other opposition figures warned that rejecting the decrees would endanger countless families. Regional parties PNV and Coalición Canaria, while critical of parts of the bill, chose to support it to avoid a legislative vacuum. Vox’s Carlos Hernández Quero mocked the government’s housing policy, and the PP’s Juan Bravo defended a construction-focused alternative, emphasizing new housing supply over the decree’s measures.