Overview
- An extraordinary cabinet meeting began more than two hours late after Sumar ministers refused to sit without housing curbs, prompting Pedro Sánchez to negotiate separately and split the response into two decrees.
- The primary package, valued at €5 billion, takes effect Saturday with 80 measures including a 30‑cent per‑litre fuel discount, a 60% cut in electricity taxes and protections against utility cutoffs for vulnerable households.
- A stand‑alone housing decree will also enter into force but will be sent to Congress within a month, and Sánchez acknowledged it currently lacks the votes for ratification.
- The opposition PP called it “a government on fire” and argued the tax cuts echo its proposals, with the decree set for congressional validation next week following Sánchez’s Iran briefing.
- Beyond Spain, Peru’s National Board of Justice upheld its decision not to ratify Pablo W. Sánchez Velarde as a supreme prosecutor, dismissing his appeal and ordering the case closed.