# Sánchez issued 9 decrees after calling Spain's election. Thursday, one Basque vote decides the housing rules

A 69-seat committee votes Nov. 12 on two housing decrees Congress rejected. The PNV backs one, the PP calls the push campaigning, and an ex-attorney general's pardon waits.

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Updated: 2026-11-11T16:11:59.264008Z
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Spain's government has published nine decree-laws in the five weeks since Pedro Sánchez called the November 29 general election. On Thursday morning, the first two face a vote that comes down to one seat. The Diputación Permanente is the 69-member committee that stands in for the dissolved Congress of Deputies. It will decide at 9 a.m. on November 12 whether to keep or repeal the two housing decrees that the full chamber rejected on October 2, according to the [official Congress agenda](https://www.congreso.es/backoffice_doc/atp/orden_dia/DP_010_112026.pdf). The broader of the two is expected to survive 35–34 because the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) has said it will vote yes. The open-ended lease-renewal decree is expected to fall, [El Constitucional reported](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/congreso-votara-manana-decretos-vivienda-huelga-general-11n-con-pnv-como-llave-salvar-medidas-gobierno_10043_102.html) on November 11.

The vote is the first test of a strategy the government made explicit this week. Sánchez's cabinet will add two extraordinary meetings, on Friday November 13 and Friday November 20, to its regular Tuesday sessions on November 17 and 24, so it can approve more measures before polling day. The People's Party (PP) calls that campaigning. The government says it promised to govern "until the last day." And the most politically charged item on the list, a possible pardon for former attorney general Álvaro García Ortiz, remains undecided.

This article sets out what the government has already enacted, what Thursday's committee can and cannot do, how each party says it will vote, and what is known about the pardon. It follows our earlier reporting on [how Congress killed the housing decrees in October](/news/spain-housing-crisis-decrees-defeated-snap-election-november-2026), which left open whether the government would try the committee route. It has.

## Nine decree-laws since the election call

The Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE), Spain's official gazette, shows nine royal decree-laws numbered 28 to 36 of 2026 published between October 7 and November 11. All were approved after Sánchez dissolved the Cortes on October 5.

| Decree-law | Approved | Subject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [28/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20822) | Oct. 6 | Stability of residential leases |
| [29/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20823) | Oct. 6 | Social function of housing, affordable supply |
| [30/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-21318) | Oct. 13 | Financial support for Ceuta |
| [31/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-21872) | Oct. 20 | Social Security protection |
| [32/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23104) | Nov. 3 | Aid to Urda rail crash victims |
| [33/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23602) | Nov. 10 | Flood damage (DANA Adam) |
| [34/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23603) | Nov. 10 | Rail safety, rail staff |
| [35/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23604) | Nov. 10 | Single-parent families |
| [36/2026](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23605) | Nov. 10 | Long-term care (dependencia) |

The November 10 package was the largest. According to the [government's own summary of that cabinet meeting](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/resumenes/paginas/2026/101126-rueda-prensa-ministros.aspx), the single-parent families decree carries €824 million and will reach more than 760,000 families, about 3 million people. It creates a national title for single-parent households. Single parents with two or more children get the same benefits as large families, including an annual €1,200 deduction. The decree also lowers the threshold for the "special" large-family category from five children to four. The long-term care decree raises central-government spending on the dependencia system to €7.24 billion in 2027, half the system's total cost by the government's figures. It also halves the legal deadline for resolving care applications from six months to three. Social Rights Minister Pablo Bustinduy said the waiting list stood at 123,474 people, 81,000 fewer than in December 2023.

Bustinduy described the families measure as "one of the great objectives of the legislature," [Newtral reported](https://www.newtral.es/decreto-ley-familias-monoparentales/20261110/), and noted that it had been part of a Families bill that lapsed when the Cortes were dissolved. That point is central to the dispute. [El Español reported](https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20261111/sanchez-celebrara-campana-consejos-ministros-inaudito-democracia-usar-boe/1003744452803_0.html) that Bustinduy acknowledged the measures had been stuck in Congress because of opposition from the PP, Vox and Junts, and that they are now being revived by decree.

The same cabinet also agreed to challenge parts of a Valencian regional law before the Constitutional Court. The target includes the law's "national priority" concept for housing and social benefits. The government argues it conflicts with basic equality conditions and the legal status of foreign residents, according to the [Moncloa summary](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/resumenes/paginas/2026/101126-rueda-prensa-ministros.aspx).

## What Thursday's committee can do

Article 86 of the [Spanish Constitution](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1978-31229) lets the government issue decree-laws "in case of extraordinary and urgent need." They take effect at once. But Congress must vote on them within 30 days of promulgation and must expressly validate or repeal them. Article 78 provides that when the chambers are dissolved, each chamber's Diputación Permanente assumes those powers until the new Cortes meet, and its members represent the parliamentary groups "in proportion to their numerical importance."

Thursday's agenda lists two items for validation or repeal: Decree-law 28/2026 on the stability of residential leases and Decree-law 29/2026 on the social function of housing. The vote takes place at the end of the debate, before a scheduled appearance by the third deputy prime minister and ecological transition minister on the 2030 electricity-grid plan, per the [agenda](https://www.congreso.es/backoffice_doc/atp/orden_dia/DP_010_112026.pdf). The other seven decree-laws on the list above are not on Thursday's agenda.

Miguel Presno Linera teaches constitutional law at the University of Oviedo. He told [Agenda Pública](https://agendapublica.es/noticia/21544/diputacion-permanente-decretos-rechazados) that people may agree or disagree with bringing back rejected decrees this way. But he said the approach "lacks legal-constitutional consequences." No party has said it will challenge the procedure in court; Junts, which opposes the decrees, has called it legal (see below).

## The arithmetic: one Basque vote

The full Congress has 350 seats. The Diputación Permanente has 69. [El Plural's breakdown](https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/diputacion-permanente-decidira-decretos-vivienda-gobierno-no-precisa-apoyo-junts_800597102) of the committee's composition gives the PP 27 members, the PSOE 25, Sumar and Vox six each, and ERC, Junts, EH Bildu and the Mixed Group (represented by Podemos's Ione Belarra) one each. El Constitucional's count treats the PNV as holding the deciding seat. By its tally, PSOE, Sumar, ERC, EH Bildu and Podemos hold 34 seats, the same as the PP, Vox and Junts. That leaves the PNV's single vote decisive.

```chart
type: bar
title: Diputación Permanente of the Congress of Deputies, members by party
note: 69 members. Party figures from El Plural, whose list sums to 68 and omits the PNV; El Constitucional's bloc totals (34 v. 34, PNV deciding) imply one PNV member. Neither says how Speaker Francina Armengol is counted.
source: [El Plural](https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/diputacion-permanente-decidira-decretos-vivienda-gobierno-no-precisa-apoyo-junts_800597102), [El Constitucional](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/congreso-votara-manana-decretos-vivienda-huelga-general-11n-con-pnv-como-llave-salvar-medidas-gobierno_10043_102.html)
---
Party | Members
PP | 27
PSOE | 25
Sumar | 6
Vox | 6
ERC | 1
Junts | 1
EH Bildu | 1
Podemos (Mixed Group) | 1
PNV | 1
```

That arithmetic differs from the full chamber on October 2. That day the PP, Vox, Junts and UPN voted against both decrees, and the PNV and Coalición Canaria also voted against the lease-renewal text, [El Constitucional noted](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/congreso-votara-manana-decretos-vivienda-huelga-general-11n-con-pnv-como-llave-salvar-medidas-gobierno_10043_102.html). In the committee, Junts is one vote of 69.

The [party spectrum chart for Spain](/political-spectrum?country=spain) below shows where 567politics places each of these parties on economic and social axes. The positions are dated editorial estimates reviewed on November 5, not measured scores, and the chart is a live view that may change after publication. The comparison helps explain Thursday's split: the chart places the [PNV](/parties/spain/pnv) at +2 on the economic axis, the same as Junts and one point from the PP's +3. Sumar sits at −4. Yet the Basque party is backing the government on one housing decree and not the other.

https://567politics.com/embed/political-spectrum?country=spain

## What each decree does, and who backs it

The broader text, Decree-law 29/2026, lets some tenants request an extraordinary extension of up to two years when their lease expires, provided they are up to date on rent. Under some conditions it suspends until the end of 2030 evictions of vulnerable people who have no alternative housing. It restricts some purchases by funds and large owners when the price is below 70 percent of market value. It also includes a "Tu Casa" program of loans of up to €50,000 for a first home and a €400 million fund for affordable housing built with social organizations, according to [El Constitucional](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/congreso-votara-manana-decretos-vivienda-huelga-general-11n-con-pnv-como-llave-salvar-medidas-gobierno_10043_102.html). [Expansión](https://www.expansion.com/economia/2026/11/10/congreso-vota-jueves-decretos-vivienda-asi-quedarian-medidas-convalidacion.html) adds that the package caps rent increases at 2 percent a year through 2027 for leases below the ministry's reference index. It raises VAT on tourist flats to 10 percent and carries a tax package of about €2 billion.

The PNV says it will vote for this text. "We have already stated our position on the decrees and we maintain it. We will vote yes on the first decree because it includes necessary measures," a spokesperson for the party's parliamentary group told [El Mundo](https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2026/11/07/6aedc605e9cf4aff5d8b4576.html). The party cites the regulation of seasonal rentals, which it called a gap in the 2023 Housing Law. It also cites limits on investment funds that it says it negotiated, and protection for vulnerable tenants and for small owners with two or fewer homes.

The second text, Decree-law 28/2026, is the one [Sumar](/parties/spain/sumar) championed. Once a lease has run at least five years, or seven if the landlord is a company, it would renew automatically unless either side gives notice. A landlord who validly declines to renew would owe the tenant twelve months' rent or one month per year of residence, whichever is greater, per [El Constitucional](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/congreso-votara-manana-decretos-vivienda-huelga-general-11n-con-pnv-como-llave-salvar-medidas-gobierno_10043_102.html). The PNV says it will vote no, calling the measure "an attack on the small property owner." Maribel Vaquero is the PNV's spokesperson in Congress. She told [Cadena SER, as reported by laSexta](https://www.lasexta.com/noticias/nacional/pnv-justifica-decreto-renovacion-automatica-alquileres-esta-hecho-prisas-corriendo-necesita-debate-mucho-mas-sosegado_202610076ac626f3b0108820e09ac4af.html), that it was drafted "in a rush" and that "legislating in the heat of the moment is very dangerous." She noted that 81 percent of rental housing in the Basque Country belongs to small owners.

Sumar made its case for the lease-renewal rule before the October 2 vote. Party sources told Europa Press that renewal is "basic" to "control the abusive escalation of rent prices." They called it "a European measure," with similar rules in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, as [quoted by El Constitucional](https://www.elconstitucional.es/es/nacional/politica/sumar-reclama-pnv-rectifique-su-rechazo-decreto-alquiler-indefinido-extrema-urgencia-social-con-vivienda_8424_102.html). Vaquero answered that comparison directly: more than half of Germany's population rents, she said, and "you cannot compare what is not comparable." Podemos has said it supports both decrees. The same outlet reported that if the lease-renewal decree is repealed, the government plans to bring the measure back as an ordinary bill.

### The rental-supply dispute

The two sides also disagree about evidence. The property portal idealista says rental listings on its site have fallen 27 percent in the Basque Country since the first decrees in late September. The national figure is about 19 percent. [El Mundo](https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2026/11/07/6aedc605e9cf4aff5d8b4576.html) reported declines of 24 percent in San Sebastián and 21 percent in Bilbao over the past month. Those figures measure advertised listings on one commercial portal, not the number of rented homes or signed contracts, and they cannot by themselves separate the decrees' effect from seasonal or other market changes. The [idealista report](https://www.idealista.com/news/inmobiliario/vivienda/2026/11/08/923067-el-pnv-votara-a-favor-del-primer-decreto-de-vivienda-pese-al-desplome-de-la-oferta) also quotes anonymous "market sources" and sources close to the PNV alleging heavy PSOE pressure on the party; those claims are unattributed and the PSOE's response was not reported. The PNV, for its part, argues it is the second decree that suppresses supply, while property experts quoted by El Mundo say the first is doing the damage. No official dataset covering the weeks since October 6 was available to settle the question.

## The opposition's objections: timing, purpose and representation

The PP's objection is to timing and purpose. "He is desperate and is going to use every lever within his reach to campaign. Little credibility. What they have not done in eight years they cannot do now in eight days," PP secretary general Miguel Tellado said on Telecinco on November 11, as reported by [Europa Press via Infobae](https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2026/11/11/tellado-acusa-al-gobierno-de-estar-desesperado-y-hacer-campana-con-los-consejos-de-ministros-extraordinarios/). The PP has promised to repeal the housing package if Alberto Núñez Feijóo becomes prime minister, [Expansión reported](https://www.expansion.com/economia/2026/11/10/congreso-vota-jueves-decretos-vivienda-asi-quedarian-medidas-convalidacion.html). In a November 8 RTVE Catalunya debate, the PP's Barcelona candidate Xavier García Albiol said he would repeal "both decrees." He called them "a real recklessness" that "punish owners in favor of those who do not pay rent," according to [Catalunya Press](https://www.catalunyapress.cat/article/politica-catalunya/2026-11-08/6083846-junts-rebutja-els-decrets-i-acusa-govern-dusar-eslgans).

Tellado's "eight years in eight days" line is a contrast about timing rather than an argument about the decrees' content; it does not say which measures are unjustified or why. The government's reply, below, is that several measures sat in bills that stalled in Congress. The record supports part of each account. The families measure was in a Families bill that lapsed with the dissolution, as Bustinduy said. The housing decrees were rejected on a recorded vote, which is the opposition's point about majorities.

Junts takes a different line from the PP. Míriam Nogueras, its spokesperson in Congress, said in October that validating the decrees in the committee is wrong, "but it is legal, Sánchez has decided to do it and there is no other way," [Servimedia reported](https://www.servimedia.es/noticias/junts-ve-mal-quiera-aprobar-decretos-vivienda-diputacion-permanente-pero-es-legal/1413397295). She accused Sánchez of using "this body and all the tools of a state for electoral propaganda." She also faulted him for approving measures "in a body where the social majority is not represented." In the November 8 debate, Ernest Urtasun of Comuns-Frente Amplio urged her to vote yes on the 12th. Nogueras replied that Junts has "proposals" rather than "slogans," per [Catalunya Press](https://www.catalunyapress.cat/article/politica-catalunya/2026-11-08/6083846-junts-rebutja-els-decrets-i-acusa-govern-dusar-eslgans). Nogueras also said Junts rules out supporting a PP–Vox government. [Junts](/parties/spain/junts) has given no sign of changing its no.

Vox's Barcelona candidate Juan José Aizcorbe used the same debate to make a historical point. He said Spain had a law providing indefinite lease extension in 1964, which the PSOE's "Boyer decree" removed. 567politics did not find a Vox statement specifically addressing the Diputación Permanente procedure.

## The government's case: legal until the last day

The government answers that nothing in the law stops it. "Approving measures is legal until the last day, and we have organized the agenda to be more productive," Moncloa sources told [El Mundo](https://www.elmundo.es/elecciones/elecciones-generales/2026/11/10/6af30975e4d4d8fe788b459f.html), explaining the extra meetings by saying "there are many things" to approve. Sánchez spoke in a La Sexta interview. He said: "There are issues that we have left pending in the Council of Ministers or also in the Congress of Deputies, and therefore there will be social measures that we will approve over these weeks." Government spokesperson Elma Saiz said: "We are going to work every day as a government to improve people's lives." Asked about the cost, the government said only that it would act "with rigor and fiscal responsibility."

[elDiario.es](https://www.eldiario.es/politica/sanchez-duplica-consejos-ministros-campana-aprobar-medidas-sociales-elecciones_1_13653496.html) quoted Moncloa as saying: "We promised that we would govern until the last day before the elections, and this is the proof," and reported that the government rejects charges of electioneering. Items on the table include a minimum-wage increase of 5.3 percent to €1,286 a month in 14 payments that the Labor Ministry proposed last week, according to elDiario.es and [El Plural](https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/sanchez-anuncia-consejos-ministros-extraordinarios-medidas-sociales-temas-pendientes-y-indulto-garcia-ortiz_803719102). El Plural adds that unions are pressing for 7 percent, and lists other candidates: a digital working-hours register, education measures and an abortion-information regulation. Our story on [Sánchez's pledge to put CPI-linked pension rises in the Constitution](/news/spain-sanchez-pensions-ipc-constitution-bilbao-pledge-november-2026) covers the PSOE's wider social platform.

The timing also has a legal dimension that favors acting now. Under Article 101 of the [Constitution](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1978-31229), the government leaves office after a general election and continues "in functions" until a new one takes over. El Mundo noted the government is not yet in caretaker status, and [El Español](https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20261111/sanchez-celebrara-campana-consejos-ministros-inaudito-democracia-usar-boe/1003744452803_0.html) reported that after November 29 it could approve decrees only on urgent and indispensable matters and would have to justify them. El Español also reported a limit the government has accepted. Moncloa concluded that the Constitution bars using a decree for a pending law granting Spanish nationality to some Sahrawis, because it touches citizenship and voting rights. El Plural reported that route is now being studied through individual naturalization letters instead.

## How the 2026 count compares with past campaigns

Pre-election decree-laws are not new. El Español counted 28 approved between an election call and polling day across Spain's democratic period, and put this government's 2026 total at 33, a record; BOE numbering had reached 36 by November 11. Its year-by-year count is below, set against the nine decrees the BOE shows since October 5.

```chart
type: column
title: Decree-laws approved between a general-election call and polling day
note: 1982–2023 counts as compiled by El Español, which says Aznar's governments (2000, 2004) approved none and lists no figures for 1979, 1989 or 2016. 2026 is a partial count to Nov. 10 from BOE numbering (decree-laws 28–36) and excludes any approved Nov. 13–24.
source: [El Español](https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20261111/sanchez-celebrara-campana-consejos-ministros-inaudito-democracia-usar-boe/1003744452803_0.html), [BOE](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-23605)
---
Election | Decree-laws
1982 | 6
1986 | 1
1993 | 2
1996 | 4
2000 | 0
2004 | 0
2008 | 1
2011 | 3
2015 | 1
Apr. 2019 | 3
Nov. 2019 | 6
2023 | 1
2026 (to Nov. 10) | 9
```

On that count, nine decrees already exceed any previous campaign, with at least four more cabinet meetings to come. Two caveats apply. First, El Español's characterization of the practice as "unprecedented" and "propagandistic" in intent is the outlet's analysis, not an established finding about motive. Second, counts differ by method: [El Plural](https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/diputacion-permanente-decidira-decretos-vivienda-gobierno-no-precisa-apoyo-junts_800597102) reported that in April 2019 the Diputación Permanente validated six decrees approved after the Cortes were dissolved. That is double El Español's count for that election. Neither outlet explains the difference, which may reflect different start dates for the count. Readers should treat the historical series as one outlet's compilation. The 2019 precedent also shows the committee route itself has been used before, including for a rental-housing decree.

## The pardon question

The most contested item may not come at all before the vote. The Supreme Court convicted Álvaro García Ortiz of revealing confidential data about businessman Alberto González Amador, the partner of Madrid regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso. It barred him from the office of attorney general for two years and ordered him to pay a fine and €10,000 in damages, according to [Europa Press via Infobae](https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2026/11/10/bolanos-no-dice-si-apoya-el-indulto-al-exfiscal-pero-destaca-que-todos-los-gobiernos-en-funciones-han-dado-indultos/) and [The Objective](https://theobjective.com/espana/politica/2026-11-11/indulto-garcia-ortiz-gobierno-elecciones/). The Objective reported he was acquitted of the other charges. Reports give the fine as €7,200 and €7,300 respectively.

Two individuals requested a pardon, and the Justice Ministry began processing it early this year. The reports required by law are not binding. The prosecution service, now led by Teresa Peramato, backed a partial pardon. It said the conviction "has generated intense and disproportionate extra-penal consequences." It added that his actions "were intended to preserve the good name of the institution." The Supreme Court, which convicted him, opposed the pardon. It found "no reasons of justice, equity or public utility" and described the facts as "serious," The Objective reported.

Sánchez was asked on La Sexta whether the pardon would come from one of the remaining cabinet meetings. He said: "That is one of the issues we have in process right now, and, well, you know the position I have expressed, that the Government of Spain has expressed. But I cannot answer that question at this moment," as quoted by [El Plural](https://www.elplural.com/politica/espana/sanchez-anuncia-consejos-ministros-extraordinarios-medidas-sociales-temas-pendientes-y-indulto-garcia-ortiz_803719102). Justice Minister Félix Bolaños must bring any proposal to cabinet. He said he was "the least appropriate person to give my opinion" but added that "all caretaker governments have granted pardons," per [Europa Press via Infobae](https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2026/11/10/bolanos-no-dice-si-apoya-el-indulto-al-exfiscal-pero-destaca-que-todos-los-gobiernos-en-funciones-han-dado-indultos/).

Reporting on the timing conflicts. elDiario.es, citing government sources, said the political decision to pardon "is clear" and only the timing is open. El Mundo's government sources said no decision had been made. The Objective and El Español both reported that the government is divided. Both said the most likely outcome is a pardon after November 29, when the government is in caretaker status. El Español said the pardon was not on the November 10 agenda. The Objective cited José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's 2011 pardon of banker Alfredo Sáenz, granted five days before that year's election, which the Supreme Court partly annulled in 2013. None of these accounts is on the record, and the outcome remains unknown.

elDiario.es described the leak for which García Ortiz was convicted as "never proven." That is the outlet's characterization; the Supreme Court's judgment found him guilty of revealing confidential data, and the court's own pardon report called the facts serious.

## The calendar to November 29 and what the vote settles

```diagram
type: timeline
title: Spain's pre-election decree calendar
source: [BOE](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20822), [Congress agenda](https://www.congreso.es/backoffice_doc/atp/orden_dia/DP_010_112026.pdf), [El Mundo](https://www.elmundo.es/elecciones/elecciones-generales/2026/11/10/6af30975e4d4d8fe788b459f.html)
---
2026-10-02: Congress rejects both housing decrees
2026-10-05: Sánchez dissolves the Cortes; election set for Nov. 29
2026-10-06: Cabinet reissues housing decrees as 28/2026 and 29/2026
2026-11-10: Cabinet approves decree-laws 33 to 36
2026-11-11: General strike over housing and wages
2026-11-12: Diputación Permanente votes on decrees 28 and 29
2026-11-13: Extraordinary cabinet meeting; campaign opens
2026-11-17: Regular cabinet meeting
2026-11-20: Extraordinary cabinet meeting
2026-11-24: Last scheduled cabinet meeting before the vote
2026-11-29: General election
```

If the PNV votes as announced, Decree-law 29/2026 remains in force and the lease-renewal decree is repealed. Every decree approved from now on also needs the committee's validation within the 30-day window. That means more Diputación Permanente sessions during the campaign. Each one is a recorded vote that the PP, Vox and Junts will have to cast on specific social measures. [elDiario.es](https://www.eldiario.es/politica/sanchez-duplica-consejos-ministros-campana-aprobar-medidas-sociales-elecciones_1_13653496.html) wrote that those debates would put the three parties in a bind late in the campaign. El Español wrote that the sessions let the government campaign and criticize opponents who vote against social measures. Thursday's vote comes a day after the [general strike over housing and wages](/news/spain-general-strike-11n-housing-wages-minimum-services-parties-split-november-2026) and on the eve of an official campaign in which [polls still show a PP–Vox majority](/news/spain-election-polls-40db-pp-vox-majority-psoe-gap-november-2026) despite a narrowing PSOE gap.

Whatever the committee decides, its decisions are reported to the new Congress when it meets, and a new majority can legislate to repeal what is validated now. The [PP](/parties/spain/pp) has said it would do exactly that with the housing package. For tenants, the practical answer to whether the two-year extension and eviction shield survive will be settled on Thursday; whether they last beyond the winter will be settled on November 29.

## Sources and method

Decree numbers, dates and titles come from the BOE. The vote time and agenda come from the Congress of Deputies' published order of business for session 10 of the Diputación Permanente. Constitutional provisions are quoted from the consolidated text on the BOE. Measure details for the November 10 decrees come from La Moncloa's official summary. Committee composition and expected vote counts come from El Plural and El Constitucional; they are projections based on parties' stated positions, not results. Party positions are quoted from Europa Press, Servimedia, laSexta, El Mundo and Catalunya Press. Historical counts of pre-election decrees are El Español's compilation. Reporting about the García Ortiz pardon relies on unnamed government sources cited by several outlets and is attributed accordingly. No representative poll on the use of pre-election decrees was found. Spanish politicians are not covered by U.S. FEC data, and no Spanish political-finance disclosure was relevant to the measures discussed. Quotations from Spanish and Catalan sources are 567politics translations. See our [methodology](/methodology).