The Budget Bill project of the Junta of Andalusia for 2027, priced at 54,716.7 million and first designed by the coalition Executive of PP-A and Vox, has overcome this Wednesday the total debate in the Plenary of the regional Parliament. The session has taken place in an unusual context due to the total absence of the opposition groups —PSOE-A, Adelante Andalucía and Por Andalucía—, whose deputies have not taken their seats in support of the general strike called in Spain.
PP-A and Vox have rejected the three total amendments registered by the left-wing formations, which have not come to be defended from the podium due to the failure of their authors to appear, although they have finally been put to a vote jointly.
The debate has been limited to the interventions of the third vice president of the Junta and minister of Economy, Finance and European Funds, Carolina España; of the deputy spokesperson of the Popular Group, Pablo Venzal, and of the spokesperson of the Vox Group, Javier Cortés, who have coincided in reproaching the absence of the opposition groups.
After passing the total procedure, the budget text now goes to the Commission on Economy, Finance and European Funds of the Parliament to continue its processing. In this phase, the overall figure and the breakdown by sections will be set, amounts that cannot be modified except by agreement between the Chamber and the Government Council. From then on, the groups will have the corresponding period of time to register partial amendments.
Carolina España has argued that the 2027 accounts provide "stability and security" for the community’s horizon, "consolidate the economic growth and employment achieved" in the last few years, and safeguard the essential "public services".
The minister has emphasized that they are the first Andalusian budgets of the coalition government between PP-A and Vox, a "majority of stability that will serve to deepen the transformation of Andalusia, strengthen public services and social welfare, and consolidate the economic growth and employment achieved in the last few years".
At the start of the afternoon session, when the President of Parliament, Ana Mestre, has confirmed that no opposition representative was in the chamber to defend their totality amendments, the person in charge of Economy has taken the floor to insist on her criticism of what she has described as a "very great lack of respect for the people of Andalusia" and of "irresponsibility" on the part of those deputies.
Along those lines, she has censured that the "far left" has "disappeared" from a plenary session in which the "future" of Andalusia is addressed, and she has added that the Andalusian Government does not give "credence to what is happening" in this session with the opposition groups.
The parliamentary spokesperson for Vox in Andalusia, Javier Cortés, has elaborated on that criticism and has called for the government pact between PP and Vox that makes it possible to have these accounts for 2027, which, he said, offer "political stability" and with which "they move away from socialist policies," in addition to the fact that "they protect Spaniards and people of Andalusia, and they are not projected for either Morocco or Senegal."
For his part, the popular deputy Pablo Venzal has highlighted the path of reducing the community’s indebtedness "thanks to the Juanma Moreno model" over the last eight years. "Before, money was requested in order to be able to cover the budget that yesterday was in deficit and now zero," he has pointed out, while also highlighting the investment effort in infrastructure and in public services.
Main items and priorities of the 2027 Budget
Among the most relevant figures in the draft Budgets is total investment or capital operations, which adds up to 5,901.2 million. Of that amount, 4,066.1 million — 69% — will be allocated at the provincial level. In 2026 this heading reached 6,409.3 million, so in the next fiscal year a drop of 7.9% is recorded.
The text states that two out of every three euros of the 2027 Andalusian accounts will be devoted to social policies, and that half of that spending will correspond to Health, which will have 17,037.5 million euros. This figure represents an increase of 1,034 million, 6.4% more than in 2026.
The Junta also reinforces its housing strategy: "it is reinforced with an allocation of 954.6 million euros in 2027, 22% more" than in 2026, which implies an additional 172.3 million, together with a "substantial effort to reduce the taxes associated with housing paid by Andalusian taxpayers".
To this allocation are added new tax measures aimed at facilitating access to housing, "so that the total economic effort of the Board in housing matters will be close to" 1.5 billion euros. Among the tax novelties included in the 2027 accounts, which are added to those already in effect, is the reduction in the general rate of the Tax on Property Transfers (ITP-AJD), which falls from 7% to 6.75% in 2027, while raising to 200,000 euros the maximum price of the main home to qualify for the reduced (6%) and super-reduced (3.5%) rates.
Along the same lines, the 2027 Budget increases the maximum value of the reduced rate of 1% of the Tax on Documented Legal Acts (AJD) to access the Board’s housing social policy, which will apply to properties worth up to 200,000 euros, and up to 300,000 euros in the case of persons with disabilities and large families. Likewise, the limit of 0.3%, from which those under 35 years of age, victims of domestic violence, victims of terrorism, or residents in municipalities at risk of depopulation may benefit, is raised to 200,000 euros per home.
The project also includes a 99% exemption from the Inheritance and Gift Tax between siblings when the main home is inherited, a measure that is estimated to benefit around 3,000 people in Andalusia.
In the education sector, the Ministry of Education will have 11,889.7 million euros, which represents 648.3 million more than in 2026, an increase of 5.7%.
The Ministry of Social Services, Families and Equality will have 4,297.5 million euros, 17.8% more than in 2026. Within this portfolio, the budget of the Andalusian Agency for Social Services and Dependency (Assda) for care for dependency will reach 3,308.3 million euros, an increase of 26.7% — 697.6 million euros — compared with the previous year.
The 2027 accounts include 6,785 million euros for policies to support the productive sector, as well as 1,285.8 million euros earmarked for transport infrastructure.
The Participation in the Taxes of the Autonomous Community (Patrica) increases again to 555 million, 10 million more than in 2026. Taken together, the Municipal Cooperation Plan will have 3,024 million euros, 14.24% more than in the previous budget, which is equivalent to an additional 377.1 million euros.
The increase in the 2027 Budget is mainly based on the progress of the Junta’s own resources, which grow by 10.1% and account for 80% of total spending. Tax revenues, which contribute 55.9% of the resources, stand at 27,955.5 million euros, 2,128.8 million more than in the previous fiscal year.