Spanish election: How bad is the housing crisis?

Spain is holding a snap general election on November 29, 2026, and coverage from POLITICO.eu, The Times, France 24, The Local Spain, El Constitucional, RANE Worldview, Israel National News, Idealista, and Demócrata frames the campaign around competing claims about who is ahead and what is driving voter discontent. POLITICO.eu directly asks how bad the housing crisis is, while Idealista reports that house prices have risen by almost 40 percent since Pedro Sánchez came to power, according to notaries. The Times reports that the state pollster CIS gives Sánchez’s PSOE the lead as the campaign kicks off, placing the party at 33 percent and frustrating an absolute majority for a PP-Vox bloc. France 24, by contrast, reports that Spain’s right holds the poll lead over Sánchez’s Socialists ahead of the vote. Demócrata publishes two pieces arguing that all polls, including those from what Bolaños calls the “reactionary majority,” point to an advance for the PSOE, and separately notes that nearly 4,000 users of Demócrata and Atresmedia predict a winning PP and an PSOE with 109 seats. The Local Spain asks whether the divided Spanish left will affect the general election, and El Constitucional provides live coverage of the 29N elections, including polls, pre-campaign activity, housing decrees being voted on, and political reactions after a strike. The Economist frames Spain’s rail crashes as a grim backdrop to the election, and RANE Worldview analyzes potential outcomes and their implications. Israel National News reports that economic pain is making voters complain and helping the right-wing gain. The coverage does not yet specify how the housing decrees voted on during the campaign will be implemented or what the strike was over, and it does not reconcile the conflicting poll leads between the state pollster and other surveys. Voters are weighing housing affordability, transport safety, and left-wing unity against a backdrop of competing electoral projections with less than three weeks until election day.