Spain's PM floats rolling over budget again due to lack of votes

Spain's PM floats rolling over budget again due to lack of votes

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez suggested on Wednesday his government could roll over the budget for a second year and start working on a new bill for 2026, as the chances of passing one this year in the fragmented lower house dwindle.

In recent days, the Government has tried to deny that it has thrown in the towel on the Budget and that it does not even intend to comply with its constitutional obligation to present it to the Lower House, even if it means that it will be rejected with a resounding boo by some of its alleged partners, joining forces with the PP and Vox. Read more]]>

Valencian Government Seeks Emergency Funds Amid Budget Delays

The Generalitat (Valencian government) is facing a financial shortfall of 200 million euros per month due to the absence of the 2025 General State Budget. Finance Minister Ruth Merino has accused the Spanish government of financially “suffocating” the region by failing to update advance payments for the financing system, which are still based on 2023 figures. Merino said that the Generalitat has already lost 500 million euros this year and criti…

Spain is governed by a budget drawn up in 2022 with a view to 2023. As far as the legislature goes, the government has not only been unable to approve annual accounts, but has not even been able to present a draft to Congress. It manages budgets already extended on 1 January 2024 and on the same date in 2025. If things do not change much, and it does not seem that they will do so, neither will Pedro Sánchez this year fulfill his constitutional o…

In the middle of Pedro Sánchez’s reply to the parliamentary groups, he jumped the hare. The president of the government acknowledged, in his own way, that there will be no Budgets of 2025 and that he already thinks of those of 2026. “If it gives us time to draw the best Budgets of this year we will. Otherwise, we will [...]

Pedro Sánchez has taken another step on Wednesday to diminish the importance of the lack of Budgets for this year. First in the debate on investment in defense and then during the control session, the president of the government has pointed to the clear public accounts of 2026, deepening in the message that he will not present those of 2025 if he previously does not have the support to approve them.