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Around 50 cities across Spain held simultaneous demonstrations calling for a general strike after Pedro Sanchez’s housing reforms were blocked.
MPs have voted down a government proposal aimed at tackling Spain’s housing crisis, prompting calls on Sanchez to resign.
Tenants in the province are now paying an average asking price of €18.8 per square metre, according to the latest third-quarter report from Idealista.
Juanma Moreno branded the PM’s coalition a ‘lifeless government,’ arguing it a loss in Friday’s vote would show it lacks a majority to govern.
Junts announced on Thursday it would not back the measures, meaning the reform is now expected to be defeated by 172 votes to 171 on Friday.
The La Querola fire has gutted a 51-home luxury development in Andorra designed by Jean Nouvel and Josep Ribas.
The new measures were approved by the Spanish government last week after protests over the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal in Madrid.
The housing decree will be submitted for urgent ratification in Congress this Friday without enough votes guaranteed to pass.
If also rubber-stamped by parliament in an extraordinary vote on Friday, the measures could benefit up to five million tenants across Spain.
Thousands rallied in Madrid on Saturday, demanding stronger housing laws before pitching some 150 tents in the historic Puerta del Sol.
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