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Congress will vote on the budget deficit path, but it has no chance of succeeding

PP, Vox and Junts have already announced that they will vote against, and a second vote will take place on 23 July.

La vicesecretaria de Regeneración Institucional del PP, Cuca Gamarra, durante una sesión plenaria en el Congreso, a 22 de abril de 2026, en Madrid (España). El pleno del Congreso debate sobre la gobernabilidad de España con preguntas por parte de los diferentes grupos parlamentarios a los miembros del Consejo de Ministros.



Jesús Hellín / Europa Press

22/4/2026
Image of the Congress of Deputies. Photo: Europa Press

On Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies will hold an extraordinary plenary session for the first debate and vote on the deficit path and budgetary stability objectives set for the 2027 State General Budgets (BOE), a proposal that has already been expressed by the majority of the PP, Vox and Junts.

The deficit path to be met by public administrations and the objectives of budgetary stability are the preliminary step for the Government to present the draft budget to Congress, which is expected to be presented after the summer.

Minister Spain calls for "reflection" from the parties

When the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, presented to the Council of Ministers the deficit path and the objectives of budgetary stability, he called on the political groups to " reflect "in order to" put aside partisan interests and prioritise the common good. "

However, as has already happened in this legislature, the PP, Vox and Junts, which have an absolute majority in Congress, have already announced that they will vote against the deficit path, so the second vote will take place in another extraordinary plenary session scheduled for 23 July.

If the proposal is also rejected in this second vote, the Government intends to proceed with the processing of the Budgets, but with a new deficit path that respects the European Union's fiscal constraints, a solution supported by the State Lawyer's Office.

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