The Spanish Government re-approves the housing decrees and calls for their protection for "humanity" and "common sense"

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the housing decrees that were suspended on Friday in Congress have been re-approved and has urged the other parties to support the measures in the Permanent Council for "humanity" and "common sense".

At the press conference following the Council of Ministers convened yesterday after the elections were brought forward to 29 November, Sanchez insisted that the decrees will have "some new developments " and that the measures envisaged are "ambitious, reasonable and necessary" and are not "ideological but human-related issues", "the result of many studies and interviews" and agreed with various associations of owners and tenants.

For Sanchez, the decrees bring together small owners and tenants, and they target fund vultures.

The president has assured us that it has become clear that the housing market is not governed by the laws of supply and demand, and that "strong intervention by the public authorities" is necessary.

For all these reasons, and in order to "prevent one more case of Maricarmen", he callsonthe parties represented in the Permanent Council   to adopt measures with four basic objectives: to facilitate affordable rent and the purchase of the first home, to generate more housing supply, to give tranquillity and stability to the citizens and to combat speculation.

Thus, it has again attacked the parties that voted "no" to the decrees and called for "courage" to "confront the powerful sides of the general interest" and to provide the "solutions" demanded by the citizens.