Partido Popular
Spain's centre-right opposition party.
The Partido Popular joined Vox and Junts on 2 October to sink two Spanish housing decrees, a seasonal-rental rule by 172 votes to 178 and a five-year lease-renewal rule by 166 to 184, three days after Cabinet approved them.
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The Partido Popular (PP) is Spain's principal centre-right party and the largest opposition party, led nationally by Alberto Núñez Feijóo since April 2022. Founded in 1989 as the successor to Alianza Popular, it governs several of Spain's 17 autonomous communities; in 2026 these include the Comunidad de Madrid under Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Andalusia under Juanma Moreno and Galicia under Alfonso Rueda.
Those regional governments give the PP direct control over housing, planning and permits in the areas it runs. They co-finance the Plan Estatal de Vivienda 2026-2030, the €7bn programme approved on 22 April 2026 and split 60/40 between central and regional governments.
The party argues that housing pressure is a supply and permitting problem, best met by construction and deregulation rather than rent controls or mandatory extensions. Its votes with Vox and Junts have shaped Coalition bargaining: on 13 July 2026 Sumar accepted Junts' demand for income-tax relief for landlords WHO cut rents, to rebuild a majority the April defeat had shown the government lacked.
The Partido Popular sank both rent decrees
On 2 October 2026 the Partido Popular voted with Vox and Junts against Royal Decree-law 26/2026, the seasonal-rental rule, which fell 172 to 178, and Royal Decree-law 27/2026, the five-year lease-renewal rule, which fell 166 to 184. Both lapse without validation, taking with them a 10% VAT charge on tourist lets and fines of up to €1m or 2% of turnover for platforms that withheld listing data.
On 28 April 2026 the PP handed the government's rental policy its second defeat of the year, joining Vox and Junts to sink the decree extending the rental price-freeze by two years and leaving tenants WHO had filed prórroga requests in legal limbo. Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida used that debate to claim the city would triple its 150,000-home target.
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