Spain votes for housing measures under street pressure and government decrees on the brink of rejection
On Friday, October 2, the Congress of Deputies was facing a decisive vote on two royal decrees - a law that the Government had taken to respond to the housing crisis, on a day marked by the announced rejection of the right-wing parties: Junts per Catalunya and PP, as well as the ultra-right-wing Vox and the mobilization of thousands of people who were holding the protest in Madrid. The political conflict comes after weeks of growing social pressure, whose most visible symbol has been the eviction of Maricarren Abascal, a 87-year-old woman who was expelled from the house in the
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On Friday, October 2, the Congress of Deputies was facing a decisive vote on two royal decrees - a law that the Government had taken to respond to the housing crisis, on a day marked by the announced rejection of the right-wing parties: Junts per Catalunya and PP, as well as the ultra-right-wing Vox and the mobilization of thousands of people who were holding the protest in Madrid. The political conflict comes after weeks of growing social pressure, whose most visible symbol has been the eviction of Maricarren Abascal, a 87-year-old woman who was expelled from the house in the
