Alberto Núñez Feijóo has altered the wording of his housing proposal during the campaign. A day after saying he would abolish Spain’s Housing Ministry, he said on Saturday in Santiago de Compostela that housing would sit “within a vice presidency.” That is more than a rhetorical adjustment: it shifts the proposal from abolishing a department to relocating the policy area. Yet it still falls short of a government structure voters can assess in practical terms.
According to elDiario.es, Feijóo had said in an interview with Jordi Wild that he would eliminate the Equality and Housing ministries. At the campaign event, he described housing as Spain’s biggest problem and said it would be placed under a vice presidency. He did not identify which vice presidency would take responsibility or say whether Housing would retain ministerial status.
That omission matters. A ministry, a state secretariat inside a vice presidency and other possible arrangements do not carry the same formal standing or accountability. Feijóo is entitled to argue for a different ministerial structure. But placing housing under a vice presidency does not, by itself, explain who would lead its work or how its responsibilities would be organised.
The available report also provides no published plan for functions, budget, staffing or coordination across government. Those details would show whether the change means giving housing greater political weight through a vice presidency or reducing its institutional independence.
The new statement therefore changes an important election pledge, but it does not yet provide a complete housing-governance plan. The PP should specify the status and structure of the area if voters are to judge the proposal by its operational consequences rather than its label.
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- elDiario.es · Source date: 2026-11-14
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Feijóo says he would abolish Spain's Housing Ministry if elected