Spain: Massive Protests After Housing Bills Voted Down
Tens of thousands marched to demand affordable housing after lawmakers rejected emergency measures to protect renters and limit evictions.
- On Saturday, tens of thousands of demonstrators protested across Spain demanding affordable housing, holding signs calling for 'a right to a roof' among other slogans.
- Friday's parliamentary rejection of emergency housing bills triggered the protests, part of a week-long wave that began after the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascalin in Madrid.
- Organizers estimated 500,000 participants, while police reported around 70,000 in Madrid, with protests spreading to around 50 additional cities. One 26-year-old protester told Reuters, "It only proves that it is us the people who have to adapt to the political parties, and not the politicians to what the people want."
- In Valencia, police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters, ejecting demonstrators who had briefly occupied the City of Arts and Sciences, a major landmark.
- Spanish media reported Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez might call a snap election after the legislation failed, though Sanchez's office declined to comment on whether the government is monitoring the protests.
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The eviction of a 87-year-old woman has become the wake of a wave of protests in more than 50 Spanish cities. One day after Congress plummets the housing decrees, tenants call for general strike, Feijóo demands elections and Pedro Sánchez admits anticipating the legislative plans for 2027
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid and other Spanish cities today to demand urgent measures to address the growing housing crisis, after the opposition in parliament rejected government measures.
The crisis in rents has set the country on fire after the eviction of the "87-year-old Maricarmen" and the rejection of the decrees of the government. Courts in dozens of cities, postponed due to bad weather the protest of Barcelona.
Tens of thousands of people came out on the street in Madrid and in other cities in Spain on Saturday, as part of new protests to combat a growing crisis in the housing sector, wrote Reuters and El Pais. The demonstrations called on Saturday by the Chiriaşi Union come to a day after the Spanish parliament, by voting ...
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