On Saturday, Pedro Sánchez held in Dos Hermanas (Seville) the first rally of the pre-campaign for the Nov. 29 general election (ABC, El Confidencial). He promised to “reinforce and maintain” the housing decrees (Expansión, El Periódico) and that housing policy would “not have an expiration date” (Última Hora). Congress had rejected two housing decrees eight days earlier with the votes of the PP, Vox and Junts, by 172 to 178 and by 166 to 184, according to EFE. Sánchez accused the PP and Vox of spreading hoaxes about the postal vote: “They are afraid of losing” (20minutos). El País quotes his phrase “these are the ones who think the fewer people vote, the better.” Ayuso said she fears “foul play” on Nov. 29 (El Confidencial) and ABC reports that Feijóo is working on an “SSL” plan against rigging. These reports offer no evidence of fraud.
Housing is the first issue of the campaign and the one that most closely links the protests in the street with the ballot box. The postal vote has become a battlefield before the official campaign begins.
If you rent or are looking for a flat, what matters is which text is in force and what the Government would change. If you plan to vote by post, check the official deadlines in good time.
For the PSOE, the PP and Vox sow doubts about the postal vote because they fear high turnout, and housing is a priority for millions of people.
For the PP, asking about guarantees for the postal vote is legitimate, and Sánchez uses “hoaxes” to sidestep Congress’s rejection of his decrees.
What any reader would want to see is missing: what exactly the Government is reinforcing, and with what figures. Meanwhile, “hoax” and “foul play” are thrown from both sides without evidence. What is useful in the short term is to see whether the Executive spells out the text, whether the PP presents documented cases involving the postal vote and whether the protest camp grows.
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Sánchez opens the pre-campaign on housing: he vows to “reinforce and maintain” the decrees and accuses the PP and Vox of hoaxes about the postal vote
In Dos Hermanas, the prime minister appealed for “social mobilization” in the name of Maricarmen, a symbol of the housing protests. The PP answers with its doubts about the postal vote. There are 49 days left until the vote.
Pedro Sánchez opened the pre-campaign for the Nov. 29 general election on Saturday with a rally in Dos Hermanas (Seville), his stronghold, according to ABC. He promised to “reinforce and maintain” the Government’s housing decrees (Expansión, El Periódico) and pledged that housing policy would “not have an expiration date,” according to Última Hora. Congress had rejected two housing decrees eight days earlier, the first by 172 votes in favor and 178 against, and the second by 166 to 184, with the PP, Vox and Junts voting against, according to EFE. Housing was the centerpiece of the event, according to El País and La Vanguardia.
The prime minister also accused the PP and Vox of spreading hoaxes about the postal vote: “They are afraid of losing” (20minutos). El Confidencial sums up that he is trying in this way to keep his own side from losing heart, and El País attributes to him the phrase “these are the ones who think the fewer people vote, the better.” The PP, for its part, questions that way of voting: Isabel Díaz Ayuso said she fears “foul play” because in 2023 some people did not receive their ballots (El Confidencial, 20minutos), and ABC reports that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is working on a plan called “SSL” to prevent rigging. In the reports we reviewed there is no evidence of fraud: it is a political dispute, not a verified fact.
The event had a name at its center, Maricarmen. El Mundo reports that Sánchez asked that the “social mobilization” in her name “overflow” at the polls in favor of “the progressive majorities,” and La Vanguardia, that he hoisted her “fight for housing” as a banner. El Periódico is following live the reactions to her death, the housing protest camp, the protests and the general strike. We do not detail the circumstances of her death because we have not been able to verify them.
On the substance of the matter, Expansión is already publishing guides for tenants and landlords on the “new regulation” and the “new decree,” with sections on automatic lease renewal and taxation. ABC warns that the decrees and inflation are leading the market “into the perfect storm.” We have not been able to confirm which text is in force today or how the Government would reinforce it, and that is the question Sánchez has not yet answered with figures.
The laSexta barometer indicates that 74.5% of respondents view the early election on Nov. 29 positively, and that housing, the economy and immigration are the three issues that weigh most on the vote. Today, Sunday, and tomorrow, Monday, National Day (Fiesta Nacional), it is worth watching whether the Government spells out the reinforcement of the decrees, whether the PP provides evidence for its suspicions about the postal vote and whether the protests at the camp grow or cool. On Oct. 16 the deadline to register coalitions expires.