The People's Party (PP) urges the government to present the budget "immediately" and not use its absence as an "excuse to hide opaque agreements."

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , and the Vice President of the Treasury, María Jesús Montero , assure that their Executive intends to present a draft General State Budget for 2026, as required by law, but at the same time the message they are sending from Moncloa and from almost every ministerial portfolio is that governability will not be affected (that is, there will be no elections) if they do not get it approved in the Cortes, since the current ones, approved in 2022, were drawn up by this Government and allow for social policies to be implemented.

Given this situation, and in the midst of negotiations on the regional financing model, the People's Party (PP) Parliamentary Group in the Senate has presented a motion requesting the Plenary Session to urge the Executive to "immediately present" the draft budget "in order to guarantee parliamentary oversight and adequate planning of public policies." "Spain cannot face the problems of 2026 with a budget approved in 2022," they warn.

According to Alicia García , spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Senate, "presenting a budget is a constitutional obligation, not a whim." "It's the most important political and economic instrument of a government, but Sánchez doesn't care about governing, but rather about being in government, which is different," she points out.

"For the second consecutive year, the Spanish government has blocked the presentation of the General State Budget. This parliamentary anomaly not only deprives Parliament and all citizens of an essential debate on the public accounts, but also highlights the weakness of an executive incapable of articulate majorities around a common economic project for Spain," the PP insists.

"The lack of a budget also serves as an excuse to hide opaque agreements with certain pro-independence political forces. Among them, the most notable are the cancellation of a substantial portion of the Catalan government 's debt and the proposal to establish a separate financing system for that region, outside the multilateral framework of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council."

In the same motion, to which EL MUNDO has had access and which will be debated in the plenary session on Wednesday the 10th, the PP wants to reject "any individual financing agreement for an autonomous community that represents a privilege over the rest, ensuring that any reform of the autonomous financing system is addressed within the multilateral framework of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council."

"These decisions, adopted by the Government based on strictly political criteria, generate unacceptable preferential treatment, undermine the constitutional principles of equality and solidarity between territories, and threaten to open a territorial fracture with very serious consequences for national cohesion. The People's Party Parliamentary Group in the Senate considers it essential to reaffirm the centrality of this Chamber as guarantor of equality for all Spaniards and as a space for defending a fair, transparent, and equitable regional financing model that addresses objective factors such as population dispersion, aging, and low population density, without granting privileges to any territory."

Furthermore, the People's Party (PP) Group urges that "the principles of equality, solidarity, and territorial cohesion enshrined in the Constitution be defended at all times, avoiding concessions that compromise the unity and general interest of the Spanish people."