The Housing Law, the squatters or the emptied Spain are just some of the star issues of this electoral campaign. Let's analyze the housing programs of all the candidates for 23J.
The parties are ordered according to the number of seats that they currently have in the Congress of Deputies, they or the relevant coalitions.
The party headed by Pedro Sánchez, current president of the Government, places housing as one of the main axes of its electoral program, after prioritizing the Law for the right to housing during its current legislature.
This time the focus is on "vulnerable groups" and those with difficulties in accessing housing, as well as on overcoming the demographic challenge of rural Spain.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, candidate for the PP, proposes to repeal the Housing Law, because, he alleges in his program, "it has generated legal uncertainty and does not solve any of the underlying problems of the housing market."
Instead, it proposes exploring solutions to "the housing problem in Spain" in collaboration with the autonomous communities and other local entities, in what it calls the "State Pact on Housing".
The successor coalition to Unidas Podemos is led by the current second vice president, Yolanda Díaz. Its electoral program arises from a "listening process" from various "thematic groups" created by citizens of all social strata.
The party led by Santiago Abascal exposes a hundred measures "for Spain Alive", among which only three have a direct relationship with housing.
The fight against squatting is one of them. On this point, the will to expand the concept of legitimate defense of the Penal Code is distinguished: "The Spaniards may use proportional force to defend their home," defines their electoral program.
In the last legislature, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) and EH Bildu have been distinguished for their decisive role in the approval of the Housing Law. ERC's position, above all, had a great impact on the drafting of the legal text, which was intended to endorse the Law for the regulation of rental prices that it had previously implemented in Catalonia and that the Supreme Court had struck down.
Parties that tend towards the conservative wing of the political spectrum voted against the Law. They are Coalición Canaria, Junts, PNV, PDeCAT and UPN.
For their part, left-wing political formations considered this law insufficient. This is the case, for example, of the Unió Popular Candidacy (CUP), which voted against the text, or the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), which abstained.
