Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will give a televised speech on Monday (October 5, 2026), his office said, amid speculation he may call early elections after Parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his government.
His government’s proposed measures, which included automatic renewal of tenancy contracts and restrictions on evicting vulnerable tenants, were voted down by Opposition parties in Spain’s Parliament. The defeat infuriated those protesting the country’s increasingly expensive housing market and underscored the difficulties his minority coalition government faces in passing legislation. The housing bills Sanchez’s leftist coalition had presented to Parliament were rejected after the Catalan separatist party Junts — on whose support the government relies — voted against them, arguing they lacked rigour.
The defeat in Parliament on Friday (October 2) was another political setback for the Socialist premier, renewing questions over whether his minority government can survive until the next scheduled general election in 2027. PM Sanchez, in office since 2018, will make the address at 9:00 a.m. from La Moncloa, his official residence, his office said in a brief statement, without giving further details. Spain has been operating under its 2023 budget, the last national spending plan passed by PM Sanchez’s government, for several years. Average rents in Spain have almost doubled over the past decade, while asking prices for homes have risen by about 90%, according to real estate website Idealista.
