Vox
Vox is Spain's FAR-right nationalist party, founded in 2013 under Santiago Abascal.
Vox voted against both of the Spanish government's housing decrees on 2 October, helping Congress kill seasonal-rental rules and five-year lease renewals three days after the Cabinet approved them.
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Voted against both decree-laws
Nomads & Communities: Congress sinks Spain's two rent decreesMentioned in: Sumar yields landlord break to Junts
Nomads & CommunitiesAbstained on the tourist-municipality vote
Nomads & Communities: Canaries make tourist towns a legal tierDeployed 'Spaniards first' housing frame targeting resident foreigners rather than non-resident investors
Nomads & Communities: Spain housing fails owners and rentersMentioned in: Madrid court silent; Bustinduy aims at summer rent freeze
Nomads & CommunitiesBackground
Vox is Spain's main FAR-right nationalist party. Founded in 2013 and led by Santiago Abascal, it first entered the Congress of Deputies in 2019 and is the largest party to the right of the Partido Popular. Its platform joins Spanish unity, against Catalan and Basque autonomy, with immigration restriction and free-market economics.
On housing it opposes the 2023 Housing Act (Ley 12/2023), the rent-freeze extension defeated on 28 April 2026, and the Plan Estatal de Vivienda 2026-2030, which it calls socialist market intervention. Its housing spokesperson, Pepa Millán, made those arguments in the April debates.
In regional parliaments Vox has held back from outright opposition. When the Canary Islands Parliament passed the Ley de Municipios Turísticos de Canarias on 8 July 2026 by 63 votes to nil, creating binding tourist-municipality categories based on beds per resident, Vox's three deputies abstained rather than voting against.
Vox votes down rental regulation
Vox has opposed every national rent measure the PSOE-Sumar government has brought to Congress in 2026. On 28 April it voted with the PP and Junts to defeat the rent-freeze extension, and used the debate to bring a 'Spaniards first' housing frame to the national floor for the first time.
It voted the same way on 2 October, when Congress killed two decrees regulating seasonal rentals and allowing five-year lease renewals. The party's line is market-first: it treats rent controls as the cause of short supply. Price data from May 2026 cut against its framing, showing non-resident buyers, not resident foreigners, setting prices in Valencia and Andalusia.