Overnight speculation held that Sánchez would decide over the weekend whether to call snap elections after Congress rejected both housing decrees, with his circle quoted as leaning toward an early vote framed as a referendum on housing. Feijóo demanded immediate polls and promised one million homes, while Junts urged the PSOE to negotiate its own proposal.
By midday the focus moved to the streets, with tens of thousands marching in Madrid to Cibeles and demonstrations in more than 50 cities calling for a general strike regardless of who governs. Valencia saw clashes at a real-estate congress that left nine officers injured.
Severe weather intruded, with three simultaneous red alerts in Catalonia over exceptional rain and a possible Mediterranean medicane forcing suspension of outdoor activity and postponement of Barcelona's march, while floods in Albacete killed a 102-year-old woman.