The consumer rights ministry said that many of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company.

MADRID (AP) — Spain has ordered Airbnb to block more than 65,000 holiday listings on its platform for having violated rules, the Consumer Rights Ministry said Monday.

The ministry said that many of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company. Others listed numbers that didn’t match what authorities had.

Spain is grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has spurred government action against short-term rental companies.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    115·
    3 days ago

    Ope, yeah. Forgot that Spain is a monarchy, but by federal I just mean ‘nationwide’. Thanks.

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      6·
      3 days ago

      You’re not far off. We don’t call it ‘federal government’ but in practice it’s exactly that, in the same line that we call the prime minister ‘presidente’.

    • barryamelton@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Being a consitutional monarchy or republic doesn’t have anything to do with federation.

      Being a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic just means that they have a predesignated figurehead that represents the country, instead of electing that figurehead. The person is just a figurehead that rubberstamps things, but doesn’t take decisions at all. Be it the king (in a constitutional monarchy like Spain, Norway, UK, Denmark, Sweden, etc) or however you want to call it (in a republic like France, Germany, etc).

      The government gets elected.