Overview
- Junts per Catalunya announced late Thursday that it will vote against the two real decretos on housing unless they are withdrawn and redrafted, leaving the measures headed to a convalidation vote in Congress on Friday.
- The Government refused to pull the decrees and pressed ahead with the plenary vote, while the second decree — the automatic indefinite renewal of rentals — lost support after the PNV and Coalición Canaria said they would vote against it.
- Large street protests and a persistent encampment at Puerta del Sol and around the Congreso have sustained pressure on deputies, with organizers reporting roughly 1,300 tents and about 2,000 people on the sixth night of demonstrations.
- Parties in the Sumar space have begun internal meetings to prepare for the possibility of a snap election and PSOE sources describe an early vote as 'probable' depending on how the streets react to any parliamentary defeat.
- In parallel coverage from Mexico, Finance Secretary Édgar Amador defended the administration's anti-contraband measures in a long congressional hearing, citing detection of 109,400 million liters of undeclared hydrocarbons and disciplinary and criminal actions by customs authorities.