The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has reiterated that the next general elections will be held in 2027 and that they will not coincide with the regional and municipal elections in May, although he has avoided clarifying whether they will be called before or after that date at the polls.
In this way, he once again leaves open the possibility of an advance of a few months, in a context in which parliamentary partners such as the PNV demand that he call elections if he does not manage to pass the General State Budgets (PGE).
The day before, upon arriving in Brussels to participate in the summit of European leaders, Sánchez had already expressed himself in similar terms: "If decisions have to be made, then we will make them when these hypotheses occur," he stated.
Along these lines, sources from Moncloa indicated that the Executive's intention is to approve the General Accounts and that, if there were finally an advance, it would be of a technical nature and limited to a few months, ruling out in any case that general elections will be held in 2026.
This Thursday, in the press conference after the European Council, the head of the Executive reiterated his message: "I am going to tell you very clearly, we will present the Budgets in 2026 and there will be elections in 2027. And there will be no elections jointly with the municipal and regional ones," he pointed out.
However, when asked again if he plans to call the elections before or after the regional and municipal elections in May, he once again dodged a concrete answer. "Reality is very dynamic," he stated.
In any case, he stressed that his intention is to exhaust the mandate. As he remarked, his purpose is to complete the legislature: "That legislatures, when the right does not govern, are also four years long," he launched.