The PSOE electoral program for the general elections of 29 November 2026 develops, in 114 pages, the proposals with which Pedro Sánchez aims to continue in Government. Housing, wages, public services, and taxation concentrate a large part of its 500 numbered commitments.
Among the initiatives are a state benefit for childrearing, a savings account of 1,000 euros at birth, and the legal recognition of friendship unions to take on care commitments. It also proposes lowering the voting age to 16 and strengthening the constitutional protection of social rights.
The document combines new reforms with the expansion of existing programs. The proposals summarized below are electoral commitments: their inclusion in the program does not mean that they are approved or that they can be requested yet.
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The main measures of the PSOE program, in a table
| Measure | Amount or proposal | Scope | PDF page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing financing | 1% of GDP each year | Mobilization of resources from the administrations and from public financial instruments. | 27 |
| State housing park | 100,000 homes | Through construction and acquisition, for sale or stable rental at an affordable price. | 28 |
| Purchase of a first home | Loans of up to 50,000 euros without interest | Deployment of TUCASA and expansion of its allocation if it runs out. | 31 |
| Working hours | 37.5 hours per week | No wage loss. Progress toward 35 hours through collective bargaining. | 41 |
| Parental leave | Four weeks at 100% of the regulatory base | For the care of children under eight years of age. | 40 |
| Childrearing benefit | Amount unspecified | For households with minors, with a redistributive design and additional protection for low incomes. | 56 |
| Cuenta de Futuro | 1,000 euros at birth | Invested in a public account and available from the age of 18 for studies or one’s own projects. | 56 |
| Dental aid | Up to 200 euros per year per person | It would start with households with middle and low incomes. | 49 |
| Public psychological care | First appointment within a maximum of 30 days | Immediate care for urgent cases. | 50 |
| Public university | Free tuition for the first undergraduate degree year | In public universities throughout the country. | 54 |
| Capital income | Maximum tax rate of 35% | For capital incomes higher than 300,000 euros, maintaining the first two brackets. | 48 |
| Railway maintenance | About 19,000 million euros | Conservation and maintenance of the network during 2026-2030. | 19 |
| Renewable electricity | 81% in 2030 | Target referred to in electricity generation. | 65 |
| Voting age | From 16 years of age | Proposal to expand youth electoral participation. | 90 |
| Cinema subscription | 15 euros per month | For people under 25 years of age, in collaboration with the sector. | 103 |
Source: PSOE electoral program for 29N. Selection of commitments. The references indicate the position of the page within the PDF file, which does not always match its printed numbering.
Housing: 100,000 public properties and resources equivalent to 1% of GDP
The PSOE proposes mobilizing annually the equivalent of 1% of GDP to facilitate access to housing. The commitment involves the different administrations and instruments such as the ICO and the Fondo España Crece; it is not limited to a budget item from the Ministry of Housing.
CASA 47 would take on a central role in the establishment of a state park of 100,000 homes. The goal combines construction and acquisition of properties to allocate them to sale or stable rental at an affordable price. The park’s income would be reinvested in new projects.
The program also proposes devoting 1% of the annual public works tender to a fund for the acquisition of protected and affordable housing. It wants, at least, a quarter of the new homes to be permanently protected and to expand rehabilitation to another 550,000.
For the purchase of a first home, it proposes rolling out TUCASA, a €10 billion line of credit with loans of up to €50,000 without interest. The commitment includes expanding its funding if it runs out.
Rentals: longer contracts and a tax on large landlords
The document proposes extending the duration of rental contracts, without setting a new number of years. It also proposes temporarily freezing rents that exceed reference indices in stressed markets and drawing up, from the Ministry, a map of stressed areas where the communities are not doing so.
For young people, it includes a public guarantee of access to rental through non-payment insurance. It adds to this deductions for tenants, bonuses for landlords that reduce prices, and a public intermediation system with collection guarantees and coverage of incidents.
The tax proposal targets homes owned by large landlords and funds that are not directed to affordable residential rentals. The tax would be progressive and would include vacant properties, tourist properties, or properties rented at prices that the program describes as abusive, although it does not establish specific rates.
City councils could apply a levy on overnight stays in tourist housing through a national framework that respects existing regional taxes. The text also provides for stabilizing protection against evictions of vulnerable households with no alternative housing, shifting its cost to administrations so it does not fall on small landlords.
Families: child-rearing allowance and a €1,000 account at birth
The PSOE proposes a nationwide child-rearing allowance for all households with minor children. Its design would be redistributive and would offer additional protection to families with lower incomes, integrated into the child assistance supplement that already exists.
The program does not set a monthly amount for this benefit. It does, however, link its funding to the new taxation of large fortunes and income from capital.
Another initiative is the Future Account: a public account endowed with 1,000 euros at birth, invested in public funds and supplemented with annual contributions for households with lower incomes. The money would be available from the age of 18 to finance studies or one’s own projects.
Therefore, the proposal does not consist in handing parents 1,000 euros of free disposal after birth. The family chapter also includes a Families Law, support for single-parent households, and support for young people who have been in care.
Work and wages: a 37.5-hour workweek and changes in dismissal
The labor proposal distinguishes two goals: to complete the reduction of the workweek to 37.5 hours without loss of pay and to encourage progress toward 35 hours through collective bargaining. Its implementation would have a schedule agreed upon in social dialogue and transitional periods for SMEs.
The minimum wage would be protected by law above 60% of the average wage. The program proposes updating it taking into account prices, wages, and productivity, and preventing increases from being neutralized through the absorption of supplements.
Regarding unfair dismissal, it proposes compensation that takes into account the circumstances and the harm caused. It does not establish a new uniform severance pay in days per year worked. Tit also includes recovering back pay in cases legally provided for.
Other measures include digital time recording, a Statute for Interns, and unemployment coverage for people in curricular and extracurricular practice. For the self-employed, it proposes advancing contributions based on actual income and facilitating access to protection for cessation of activity.
Pensions, leave and cancer-related sick leave: what changes does the program include
The PSOE wants to incorporate into the Constitution protection for the public pension system and its updating in line with the CPI. The document also proposes strengthening the child supplement and recognizing an additional year of contributions for each child to offset the impact of care on professional careers.
On early retirement, it commits to evaluating a reduction in penalties in involuntary cases, especially for people with long contribution histories. The wording does not amount to promising the general elimination of reduction coefficients.
In terms of reconciliation, it proposes a Social Security benefit that covers four weeks of parental leave to care for children under eight years of age, at 100% of the regulatory base. It adds one week for the second parent when both parents take their birth and care leave without overlapping.
For workers with cancer processes, it proposes a specific leave with a benefit of 75% of the regulatory base from its start and a gradual return under medical criteria. It also provides for transforming the collaborating mutuals into public managing entities of the Social Security system.
Health: dental aid of up to 200 euros and psychological care within 30 days
The Plan Sonríe aims to progressively incorporate into public health basic dental treatments for adults, starting with fillings, root canal treatments, reconstructions, and periodontal treatments. While that coverage is being developed, the PSOE proposes aid of up to 200 euros per year per person, starting with households with middle and low incomes.
In mental health, the commitment is to guarantee a first free psychological consultation in public healthcare within a maximum of 30 days, with immediate care for emergencies. To do so, it proposes increasing clinical psychology professionals, especially in primary care.
The program places public healthcare funding at around 7% of GDP and establishes direct management as the preferred modality. It includes strengthening primary care, progressively expanding the Plan VEO to other vulnerable groups, and offsetting the additional cost of gluten-free foods for people with celiac disease, without specifying an amount.
Education: free first year of university, scholarships, and schools from 0 to 3 years old
The PSOE proposes making tuition for the first year of undergraduate degree programs free in public universities across all of Spain. The measure refers to that year and those institutions, without extending the commitment to all years of the course of study.
The university section includes Erasmus scholarships of up to 1,500 euros per month depending on income, aid for students who are the first generation in their family to access university, and more affordable public housing.
In the earlier stages, it proposes moving toward the universalization of public education from 0 to 3 years, reducing ratios and guaranteeing free canteens for students at risk of poverty or social exclusion. It also sets the goal of reducing early school leaving to below 10% before 2030.
Vocational Training would have more places and greater linkage with sectors such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the energy transition. The program provides for strengthening educational guidance until reaching a benchmark of one professional for every 250 students.
Taxes: a maximum of 35% for high capital incomes and a higher Tobin rate
The reform of capital taxation would keep the first two brackets and would raise the rates from 50,000 euros, up to a maximum of 35% for capital incomes above 300,000 euros. The commitment refers to these incomes, not to applying that percentage to all salaries.
The PSOE proposes increasing the tax on financial transactions from 0.2% to 0.4%. It also proposes supplementing the taxation of large tech companies and the artificial intelligence sector.
Another measure would raise the taxation of listed companies when the total remuneration of their top executive exceeds one hundred times the median of the workforce, with an upper bracket based on a ratio of two hundred to one.
The program includes a tax for luxury travel with a high carbon footprint. Its wording mentions large yachts, private flights, and tickets in business class departing from Spain.
For households with medium and low incomes, it proposes converting the minimum for dependants under the IRPF into a refundable tax credit and creating a state deduction that can be activated in the event of price increases. It also proposes a single, automatic social voucher that brings together energy and transport assistance and, through agreements, social tariffs for water and telecommunications.
Dependency and older people: care at home and visits from the age of 80
The program proposes a first Social Services Law with a shared portfolio agreed with the autonomous communities. Home help would be consolidated as an essential public service, together with more personal assistance, day centers and family respite programs.
The Plan A Tu Lado incorporates assistance to adapt homes and install elevators. From the age of 80, it proposes periodic home visits by nursing or social work professionals to detect frailty and loneliness.
For people with ALS in a situation of extreme dependency, it proposes agreeing with the communities on the exemption from copayments and continued home care. It also includes compensating the energy overcost for electrodependent patients and expanding support for independent living for people with disabilities.
"Union of friendship": legal recognition to care for each other without being a couple
The PSOE proposes incorporating into the Civil Code the figure of the "union of friendship." Its purpose is to provide legal protection for people, united by friendship or companionship, who decide to assume a mutual caregiving commitment.
The program states that these unions would allow benefits to be rolled out for their members, but it does not specify a catalog of benefits, tax advantages, or succession rights. It also does not set out in this section the requirements to formalize them, nor does it equate them with marriage.
Energy and climate: 81% renewable electricity and nuclear closure until 2035
The PSOE sets the goal for renewables to reach 81% of electricity generation in 2030. To do so, it proposes expanding self-consumption, strengthening the grids, accelerating storage, and developing renewable hydrogen and interconnections.
The document maintains the closure schedule for nuclear power plants until 2035, along with transition projects for the affected regions. It also proposes a roadmap to progressively abandon fossil fuels.
Against flooding, wildfires, and droughts, it proposes a State Agency for Civil Protection and Emergencies, a monitoring center for extreme phenomena, and a National Climate Resilience Fund. Regarding water, it includes a minimum vital amount for vulnerable households, public banks in the river basin authorities, and modernization of irrigation without raising total consumption.
The environmental block incorporates a fund to repair products financed by their manufacturers, restoration of ecosystems, and measures against animal abandonment and mistreatment. Emergency plans would include evacuation and rescue of animals.
Farming and rural areas: family farming, land banks, and nearby services
The program defends a CAP geared toward professional, family-run, and small- and medium-scale farms. It proposes a Law of Family and Professional Agriculture, strengthening agricultural insurance, and facilitating generational succession through land banks.
In fishing, it calls for a transition with financial support, a transparent distribution of quotas, and measures against illegal fishing. For rural municipalities, it includes affordable housing, green jobs, connectivity, and access to basic services and mobility under the goal of the “30-minute country”.
Transport: 19,000 million for the rail network and road repairs
The PSOE proposes protecting around 19,000 million euros earmarked for rail conservation and maintenance during 2026-2030. The program includes publishing each year the execution of resources and indicators on the condition of the network.
It also proposes a State pact on rail safety, a technical audit drawn up within two months, and a technical-profile management position at Adif and Renfe. It includes bringing the ERTMS level 2 into service on the Madrid-Seville line and a public timetable to extend advanced safety systems.
On roads, it sets out the repair of the road surfaces of 5,000 kilometers of the state network over four years, with an investment of 1,629 million euros. The mobility proposals include improving Cercanías and Media Distancia, rural connections, and electric charging infrastructure.
Economy, science and artificial intelligence: investment and fewer procedures
The program proposes a new Industry and Strategic Autonomy Law and maintaining state participation in sectors considered strategic. The Savings and Investment Account for Financing Europe would seek to steer savings toward productive investment.
The so-called 20 Regime aims to harmonize basic requirements so that companies can operate throughout the entire territory and reduce administrative burdens. The text adds an independent supervisor to examine duplications and the impact of new regulations.
In science, it proposes raising public investment in R&D to 1.5% of GDP by 2035, after reaching the target of 1.25%. It includes a Statute for Research Staff, support for technology companies, and public access to advanced artificial intelligence tools, accompanied by training.
Social media and AI: minimum age of 16 and human supervision
The PSOE proposes approving in the first year of the legislature a law for the protection of minors in digital environments that sets the minimum age at 16 for using social networks. The document contemplates lowering that threshold only when the platforms demonstrate that they are safe by default.
Age verification would be supported by a public and anonymous tool. It also proposes restricting the free use of AI conversational assistants to minors under 16 without parental consent and strengthening protection against addictive designs.
In artificial intelligence, it proposes human oversight of decisions that affect rights, independent audits, and mandatory labeling of generated or manipulated content. The CNMC would receive powers to apply the European Digital Services Regulation.
Equality: reconciliation, male chauvinist violence and LGTBI rights
The program proposes strengthening pay transparency, combating involuntary part-time work, and extending up to the age of 16 measures for adaptation and reduction of working hours for the care of minors. A Time Use Law would address schedules, reconciliation, and digital disconnection.
In male chauvinist violence, it includes a law against vicarious violence, another against trafficking and un abolitionist law of the prostitution system. It also proposes specifically classifying the creation and dissemination of sexual deepfakes and establishing measures of digital restraining.
The block of rights includes strengthening protection for abortion, for equal marriage, and for euthanasia, as well as penalizing so-called conversion therapies. In democratic memory, it proposes completing exhumations and bringing to fruition the re-signification of Cuelgamuros.
Immigration: legal routes and a 500 million integration plan
The PSOE proposes rolling out the Integration and Citizenship Plan 2026-2030 with an initial allocation of 500 million euros. It includes training, employment, education, and participation measures, with collaboration between administrations and social agents.
The program proposes expanding legal routes for international protection, strengthening the reception and asylum system, and speeding up procedures such as the homologation of qualifications. For minors who arrive alone, it prioritizes child protection and support for the territories facing emergencies in reception.
Justice, security and Public Administration: walk-in care without an appointment and an anti-corruption agency
The document proposes that the offices of the Administration of the State attend in person or by phone without mandatory prior appointment. It also includes rural itinerant offices, notices by SMS or email for notifications, and the removal of requests for documents that are already in the possession of the administrations.
In justice, it proposes a five-year mandate for the Fiscalía General del Estado separate from the legislature and a new Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal that assigns the investigation to the Fiscalía under judicial supervision. It includes expanding staff and strengthening legal aid.
The fight against corruption would be implemented through a Ley Orgánica de Integridad Pública, an independent agency, and a law on special interest groups with mandatory registration and publicity of meetings. The program also proposes a new Ley de Función Pública that reduces temporality.
On security, it proposes strengthening Policía Nacional and Guardia Civil, expanding the response to cyber scams, and replacing the Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana of 2015. The text includes body cameras with data protection guarantees and a basic statute for firefighters.
Voting at 16, constitutional reforms and regional funding
The PSOE proposes lowering to 16 the age to vote and creating a citizen seat without voting rights in the Congress and the Senate, from which civil society can formulate questions and initiatives. It also proposes reducing the signatures required for popular legislative initiatives.
The program calls for strengthening constitutionally housing and health as fundamental rights, together with protection for pensions, access to water, and climate security. It proposes reforming the Senate so that its constituencies match the regional (autonomous) scope and removing privileged status (aforamientos) for offenses unrelated to the exercise of the office.
On territorial funding, it commits to推动 the new regional (autonomous) model to which it attributes an additional 21,000 million euros. It also proposes advancing in the State’s assumption of 83,000 million in regional (autonomous) debt and strengthening the resources of local entities.
Culture and sport: cinema for 15 euros a month and protection for creators
The program proposes a 15-euro monthly cinema pass for under-25s, in collaboration with the sector, and to strengthen the Young Cultural Voucher. It includes a General Culture Law, to complete the Artists’ Statute, and to ensure that creators authorize and are paid for the use of their works in the development of artificial intelligence.
In sport, it proposes to roll out the Athletes’ Statute, extend supervised physical activity from primary care, and strengthen grassroots, Olympic, and Paralympic sport. It also includes measures for the professionalization of women’s football and compatibility between an athletic career and studies.
Europe and foreign policy: common defense, cooperation and voting from abroad
The PSOE proposes a European Union with greater political and fiscal integration, more capacity for action, and a common defense. It rejects raising military spending to 5% of GDP and proposes improving efficiency through industrial cooperation and joint procurement.
On foreign policy, it maintains support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. It proposes increasing development aid to 0.7% of gross national income and promoting a global minimum tax on billionaires.
For Spaniards living abroad, it includes simplifying overseas voting, strengthening the consular network, and studying in a parliamentary committee the creation of an external electoral district. The defense chapter includes technological modernization of the Armed Forces, more capabilities for the UME, and psychological and social care for deployed personnel.
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