US EditionBarcelona Plenary Activates the Issue of Confidence to Start 2026 with a New Budget in Force
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Five days after Jaume Collboni announced that the approval of the 2026 budget would be contingent on a vote of confidence in last Friday's plenary session, Barcelona City Council held an extraordinary plenary session this Wednesday to vote on it. As expected, the mayor lost the vote, with the support of ERC, the abstention of Comuns, and the votes against from Junts, PP, and Vox. However, following this vote, this mechanism will allow the munici…
The Barcelona City Council will have a budget for 2026 in time to enter into force on 1 January. The mayor, Jaume Collboni, has again resorted to a matter of trust - a legal and exceptional mechanism that he already used in 2024 after the opposition toppled his project of municipal accounts in plenary. It is a procedure that allows linking the budget to the continuity of the mayor and that he has lost in the vote this Wednesday. Now the deadline…
The mayor of Barcelona has been subjected to this mechanism for the second time, which he can no longer use to approve the municipal accounts.
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