The PP intends to use next Wednesday's control session in Congress to question the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, about the situation of the 2026 Budgets and about whether she "lies" by claiming that there will be a public accounts project, taking into account that the government's number two committed to presenting them in the first quarter and they have not yet been sent to the Lower House.
At first, the vice president explained that her objective was to submit the Budgets to Congress at the beginning of the year so that they could be approved in March or April, which already implied a delay of between three and four months with respect to a processing in ordinary term.
Weeks having passed without the project having been registered, the Government went on to state that its purpose was to present it, at the latest, within the first quarter of the year, and this very week the Executive's number two has reiterated her willingness to take the budgetary text to Congress.
Given that the parliamentary processing of public accounts extends for more than two months, the calendar becomes adverse for the Executive, which in June should already be immersed in the elaboration of the 2027 Budgets.
The Executive recognizes that now it does not have sufficient support
The Government maintains that there will only be new Budgets when there is a majority that allows them to be passed, a condition that the Executive itself admits is not met today given the refusal of Junts and Esquerra Republicana to support them.
In this context, all attempts to push forward the deficit path, an essential prior step for the presentation of the accounts, have shipwrecked in Congress due to the lack of support from its partners or in the Senate, where the PP holds an absolute majority.
This parliamentary fragility explains that in the legislature started in 2023, no Budget bill has yet entered Congress and those approved in 2022 remain in force, in which appear formations that today no longer have parliamentary representation.
Parallelly, the Constitutional Court has admitted for processing a conflict of attributions raised by the PP in the Senate against the Government for not complying with the obligation to present Budgets for the fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Given this scenario, the PP has registered an oral question addressed to Montero in the next control session to ask her if “she has lied again when she emphatically stated that this year there would be budgets”. According to the list of questions and interpellations of the Plenary collected by Europa Press, the question will be raised by the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado.