The Government of Pedro Sánchez has decided to divide the so-called omnibus decree that included the pension increase and several social measures, including protection against evictions for vulnerable people, after the rejection suffered in the Congress of Deputies due to the opposition of PP, Vox, and Junts.After the rejection in Congress due to lack of support, the Executive is considering approving at least two separate decree-laws: one that exclusively includes the revaluation of pensions and another with the rest of the social measures that were part of the omnibus decree that did not manage to be validatedWith this separation, the Government's intention is to process the pension increase separately to facilitate its approval in Congress and prevent retirees from seeing that increase in their paychecks endangered, while the measures related to housing included in the previous package would remain in a second text
First thing this morning, it has been confirmed that the negotiations are continuing against the clock, just before the start of the Council of Ministers. Finally, the request of the PNV, which acted as mediator with Junts, was accepted, so that the extension of protection against evictions does not include landlords who only own one rental property, a condition that the post-convergence also support
The PNV stated that this way “the situation of these people is taken into account and they are allowed to recover the possibility of renting their apartments, preventing months of non-payment from continuing”The Basque Nationalist Party has insisted that the Basque Group "has fought" so that these small owners are not equated with large holders or vulture funds", preventing them from becoming new vulnerable citizens by having to assume the burden of non-payment to which the State obliged themIn its last session of 2025, the Council of Ministers gave the green light to a royal decree-law that established a **general increase of 2.7% in pensions**, in line with inflation, a **7% increase for minimum pensions**, and **11.4% for non-contributory pensions and the minimum vital income**.