The Spanish government plans to stretch its weekly Cabinet meetings right up to election day and fill the sessions with social decrees. Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz has already marked the route with an announced rise in the minimum wage, the SMI, before the vote. The message is that every remaining Council of Ministers should hand voters something concrete. Housing has become a second front in the run-up to the election. The government intends to use the housing strike as a weapon against the conservative Popular Party, its main rival. With the legislative calendar winding down, decrees look set to become the executive's preferred instrument. The weeks between now and the vote promise a steady stream of social announcements from Madrid.