A ‘keli borroka’ awaits the PP (Teodoro León Gross in ABC)

Teodoro León Gross argues in ABC that housing protests are being contained now, but they will explode into escraches (targeted protests outside politicians’ homes) and barricades when the PP comes to government. What is being seen these days, in his reading, is only the dress rehearsal.

Columnist **Teodoro León Gross** writes in **ABC**, dated **30 September 2026**, an article titled “A ‘keli borroka’ awaits the PP.” His thesis is that the PP should start thinking about tying itself to a mast, like Odysseus, because when it comes to power a social explosion awaits that today is only hinted at. The term mixes slang for home with the Basque word for fight.

## A dress rehearsal with gentle placards

What is being seen these days, he writes, is the seed. The protests maintain a moderate tone, with placards he compares to a fabric-softener ad. Class-based unions, tenants’ and anti-eviction movements and television’s “black Fridays,” he argues, will hold back until the change of government.

Then the explosion will arrive in the form of an “antifascist alert” and the discontent that has been dormant during these years will be unleashed. Compared with the treatment that, in his view, the government of **Pedro Sánchez** receives, the PP faces a permanent journey between Scylla and Charybdis: no-holds-barred escraches and barricades, not chants or drum troupes.

## The “Keli Finder” the right could not get away with

The columnist illustrates the double standard with a hypothetical example. If a minister under **Mariano Rajoy** had thought, in the middle of the housing bubble, of launching a portal called “Keli Finder” —“House Finder”— to centralise information on housing from state administrations and distribute more than **ten thousand pairs of trainers** with a Converse look, like Chuck Taylor All Stars but with flowers, all hell would have broken loose. There would still be acid jokes at the Goya Awards.

On the other side, he argues, everything is forgiven: a blackout, the deaths in Adamuz, corruption or the price of basic shopping-basket products.

## Eight years of inaction and an eight-day decree

The new decrees, he writes, seem to have little scope and to amount to wet paper. The PSOE is above all concerned with keeping up the appearance of being on the right side of history, and those patch-ups, he says, will only reduce rental supply further.

There is a paradox in all this, according to the columnist: there is no greater perversion for a government than not governing. This is a legislative term without laws or budgets. After **8 years of inaction** on housing, the aim was to produce a flashy decree in **8 days** and negotiate it in **8 hours**.

The government, he adds, was not looking for a solution to the housing problem but a solution to its credibility problem. And even so it will emerge fairly unscathed. Out of a token sense of shame, the encampments will last a few more days.

## The seed of urban guerrilla warfare is already planted

The article’s conclusion is that the seed of the future urban guerrilla movement for housing is already planted. That ‘keli borroka’, he writes, will explode in the right’s face. And he closes with a line: “Spain will burn.” It is worth remembering that this is an opinion piece: its forecasts are not verified facts.

KEY POINTS
Teodoro León Gross publishes in ABC on 30 September 2026 the column “A ‘keli borroka’ awaits the PP.”
The text predicts escraches and barricades against the PP when it comes to government, and frames the current moderate tone of protests as a mere rehearsal.
It mentions a hypothetical portal “Keli Finder” and the distribution of more than ten thousand pairs of trainers with a Converse look.
It puts housing inaction at 8 years and the attempted decree at 8 days of processing and 8 hours of negotiation.
It names the class-based unions, tenants’ and anti-eviction movements and television’s “black Fridays” as the groups that will wait for the change of government.