Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,
Spain's Socialist-led government on Tuesday reapproved two housing decree laws that Parliament rejected last week, a defeat that prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to dissolve the country's Legislature and call a snap election.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is also a leader of the ruling Socialist Party, holds a news conference after a meeting at the party's headquarters in Madrid, on June 16, 2025. Nacho Doce/ReutersThe measures include rent caps, a temporary ban on evictions, and limits on corporate purchases of residential property, moves that followed protests triggered by the forced removal of an 87-year-old woman from her home.
Sánchez, the head of Spain's main socialist party, said on Monday he was bringing forward an election on Nov. 29 previously scheduled for 2027.
"We need to mobilise and win a much larger progressive majority in parliament, one that will allow us to overcome vested interests, deliver new social advances and continue transforming Spain," Sánchez said in a televised address.
By calling the election, Sánchez shifted approval of the new rules from the full Congress to a smaller caretaker body where his allies hold a narrow majority.
The measures will come into effect temporarily when the decree is published in the official government journal, the Boletín Oficial del Estado, but must then be sent for approval by the caretaker lawmakers who remain in place after Parliament is dissolved, Sánchez sa
