Alberto Núñez Feijóo used a pizza delivery receipt to illustrate property owners’ fears of home occupation. The claim drew ironic replies from the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez, followed by further attacks from PP figures.
At a rally in Seville on 21 October 2026, Alberto Núñez Feijóo said someone could occupy a home and use proof of a pizza order to prevent removal for years. He offered the scenario to illustrate property owners’ fears.
The claim quickly became a political joke. The PSOE mocked the idea on X, while Pedro Sánchez revived a post he had written 16 years earlier, in 2010, about eating pizza with friends at the Luna Rossa restaurant. On 21 October, Sánchez called the old post memorable and recalled the meal.
Óscar Puente joined in with a joke about the pizza having no pineapple. Óscar López, the minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, said Feijóo was giving voters another reason to reject him on 29 November. López made the remarks in León at the opening of the 20th International Information Security Meeting, known as Enise.
Feijóo offered no legal detail to support his claim. Spanish law distinguishes unlawful entry into a person’s actual home from occupation of a property that is not someone’s residence. Under the accelerated civil procedure introduced by Law 5/2018, once a claim is filed and the court notifies the occupants, they have five days to produce a legal basis for their possession, such as a rental agreement or the owner’s permission. A pizza receipt can show someone was at an address, but it does not by itself establish a right to live there.
In a 2020 ruling, Barcelona’s Provincial Court upheld a three-month fine for unlawful occupation after an online pizza order was used in an attempt to present the property as a home. ARA has also reported a separate case in which neighbours promptly alerted police and the occupants were removed despite having a delivery receipt.
Feijóo tied his example to a campaign pledge to introduce an anti-squatting law within the first 100 days of a government, promising that occupants would be removed within 48 hours. He also promised changes to land and horizontal property laws. The 48-hour measure was a political proposal, not a procedure already in force.
The PP then redirected its replies to Sánchez’s old post. Secretary general Miguel Tellado referred on X to a pizzeria beside a business belonging to Sánchez’s father-in-law, while spokesperson Ester Muñoz posted a map of central Madrid marking the pizzeria and a nearby sauna.
Muñoz also alleged that the pizzeria was beside a family brothel and asked Sánchez to clarify whether his father-in-law had financed his leadership primary. Those claims appeared in her post; the supplied account does not establish them as fact.
Housing has also featured in criticism of Sánchez by Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, during a visit to Spain, as an earlier report described.
