Podemos backs housing decrees leaving government in suspense over Junts
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The government’s housing agenda is currently being held together by a party it frequently clashes with and threatened by one it cannot control. Podemos has agreed to support two decrees despite accusing the PSOE of trickery; Junts, meanwhile, has described the measures as 'swallowable' but is yet to say if it will actually swallow them. The human cost of the property shortage remains stark: a man in L'Hospitalet died by suicide this week just days before his scheduled eviction.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will visit Ceuta and Melilla in mid-October, the first royal trip to the autonomous cities in 19 years. Such visits are rarely simple matters of state, and this one was notably described as being 'agreed with the Government' beforehand.
Prosecutors are looking backward at two different eras of power. Anti-corruption officials want fresh testimony from former Prime Minister Zapatero regarding payments in Bolivia, while the Chief Prosecutor of Badajoz claims his superiors in Madrid withheld documents in an investigation involving the current president’s brother.