The Constitutional Court rejects the Government's appeal against the state housing law

PalmThe full Constitutional Court (TC) has dismissed the appeal of unconstitutionality filed by the Balearic Government against certain articles of the State Housing Law. In a ruling, to which Europa Press had access, the TC declared the appeal filed by the Governing Council moot because the challenged provisions had already been resolved in other rulings. Specifically, this stemmed from appeals filed by the Andalusian Regional Government and more than fifty members of the People's Party (PP) in the Congress of Deputies. Some of the issues raised were declared unconstitutional or void, while others were dismissed. According to constitutional doctrine, the removal of these provisions from the legal system results in the appeal becoming moot, since the jurisdictional disputes raised by the Balearic Islands are very similar to those already resolved.

When asked about it, the government spokesperson, Antoni Costa, downplayed the court ruling, arguing that the reason it was dismissed was that it had already been examined in previous proceedings.

"What has happened is not that we haven't been proven right, but rather that we had already been proven right, and there's no need to reiterate," he stressed at the press conference following Friday's meeting of the Governing Council.

The PSIB demands limits on rents

The PSIB (Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands) has demanded that the Government implement the State Housing Law to limit rental prices by declaring areas under housing pressure, after the Constitutional Court dismissed its appeal against this legislation. The PSIB spokesperson in the Balearic Parliament, Iago Negueruela, demanded that the Government "stop delaying" and "creating obstacles," arguing that with this decision by the high court, the PP (People's Party) "no longer has any excuse" for not declaring these areas under housing pressure, as explained by the PSIB in a statement. He also criticized the fact that the only underlying reason the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, invoked the Law was that she "doesn't want to apply the limits on rental prices," in such a "delicate context as the current one," when in 2026 "more than 24,000 families, some 70 million, will have their rental contracts expire."

"With the Constitutional Court's ruling, it's now clear that the law is perfectly legal, that there are no excuses, and that Prohens wanted to delay the implementation of measures that are working in other cities, like Barcelona or northern Spain, and that she doesn't want to do it," he argued.