Antonio discovers class struggle (Ignacio Camacho in El ABC)

In ABC, Ignacio Camacho argues that Pedro Sánchez's government is turning housing into a confrontation between landlords and tenants in order to mobilize its electorate. The column, dated October 1, 2026, presents the housing decrees as legislative chaos with a political goal.

## A column that accuses Sánchez of using housing
In **ABC**, **Ignacio Camacho** publishes a column on **October 1, 2026** titled «Pedro discovers class struggle». He argues that the social climate was already tense and that Pedro Sánchez's government is stirring up a confrontation between landlords and tenants. Housing, he writes, has enormous potential for conflict and tension. Camacho describes it as the new version of the class struggle.

The columnist claims that the new housing decrees are a mess. The minister in charge did not know their exact wording when trying to explain them, and someone from outside her department was finishing writing them on the fly. It is unclear whether one, two or none of the texts will be approved. Camacho interprets that the real goal is not legislative: to unleash against the right the protest of the protest camps.

## The 15-M precedent and the political calculation
Camacho compares the situation with the **15-M movement**. He recalls that when it erupted, **José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero** did not place himself at the head of the protest wave. According to his account, that movement ended up turning against the imminent change of government. Sánchez, by contrast, has more opportunistic instinct for escaping a difficult situation.

The text mentions that Sánchez did not provoke the **Maricarmen case**. It is likely, he adds, that he was not even aware of it, busy dodging responsibility over **Ceuta** and containing scandals open in the courts. The mess was found ready-made by his partners on his left, who are trying to reactivate themselves through anti-eviction platforms, as they did fifteen years ago.

For Camacho, housing concerns Sánchez just as much as inflation or infrastructure, but it offers a goldmine of social unrest and partisan conflict. Hence, he says, the government focuses on inventing a narrative.

## Decrees, budgets and protest around Congress
The column stresses that the legislative procedure is the least of the worries for a government that has gone **an entire term** without presenting **a single budget**. With some luck and a passive police force, he writes, a good ruckus can be stirred up around the **Congress**. That would serve as training for when the right takes over.

Camacho describes the generation camped out in **Sol** as people who did not live through the barricades of fifteen years ago and yearn for their own baptism in street riots. They do not need to understand the decrees. It is enough for them to remember that their predecessors ended up winning mayoralties and ministries.

## A debatable diagnosis of social tension
The piece does not hide its thesis. Sánchez's government, it argues, seeks to keep its electorate mobilized against the adversary. The projects may succeed or fail; what matters is that they serve that purpose.

This is an opinion column, not a news report. The claims about intentions, moods and political calculations belong to the columnist. The concrete facts it offers are the date, the outlet and the framework of the housing debate.

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