Vox has requested that the Permanent Deputation of the Congress, which will hold a meeting this Thursday, remove from the agenda the debate and vote on the validation or repeal of the two housing decree-laws approved by the Government after the dissolution of the Cortes. The party considers that both texts are almost identical to those that the Plenary of the Chamber already overturned on November 2 and that submitting them again for a vote would amount to committing a "constitutional fraud".
As detailed by the Santiago Abascal party in the documents filed with the Board of the Permanent Deputation, this body will meet first thing on Thursday and, presumably, will reject its requests thanks to the majority held by the PSOE and Sumar.
Vox recalls that on November 2 the Congress expressly repealed the two housing decree-laws: one broader in scope with measures to intervene in the market and another focused on the automatic extension of rental contracts. In its view, the competence of the Permanent Deputation "to approve decree-laws when the Chamber is dissolved cannot be turned into a mechanism to obtain, immediately and on rules that are essentially identical, the opposite result to the Plenary's express will".
Likewise, the group insists on its criticism of the Permanent Deputation, which has operated throughout the entire term, by considering that it does not present a "proportional composition" with respect to the Plenary, which, in its opinion, violates Article 78.1 of the Constitution. For this reason, it calls for the weighted voting system to be introduced and for the President of the Congress, the Socialist Francina Armengol, to abstain from taking part in the votes of this body.