Aragon, Castilla and Leon, Cataluna, Valencian community, extremadura, Balearian Islands and the Murcia region began in 2025 in a situation of expanding the budget, despite the fact that all of them, with the exception of Catalonia, had the law of its own budget by 2024.
This follows from the preliminary assessment of the report of autonomous communities 2024, It emphasizes that at the end of 2024 the government of Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla and Leon, the Valencian and Mursia communities did not submit the bill to the parliament, although in 2025 they were approved on the Balearians, Mursia and the Valencia community after agreements between PP and VOX.
The document explains this phenomenon for the difficulties of regional leaders to achieve agreements with other political forces, especially After the VOX decision, get out of all regional governments in July 2024. After the PP accepted the quota of minor minors -migrants, negotiations with the central government.
The question of migration rushed again, at the end of 2024, that VOX ordered to violate negotiations with PP in order to approve budgets in various autonomy.
In the case of CataloniaRefusal of Commons for the construction of the Hard Rock tourist complex He forced the PSC not to fulfill budgets in 2024 with the support of the ERC, which left the region in a situation of expanding the budget within the third year in a row.
Expansion effects will be “more intense and negative”
In this context, the report affects the effect of expansion “will be more intense and negative”, especially with regard to new investments, despite the specific actions that can be taken It is carried out using budget modifications or new expenditures for 2025.
“The forecast of constitutional obligations, such as the annual presentation of the budget, clashes with the impossibility of its forced execution, but The lack of this opportunity or sanction does not disappear the obligation or its violation “warns the report.
The text reminds that the “repeated” lack of budgets at the local level led to the reform of the procedure for approving the budget of local organizations, which remains in force today, and which allows for the approval of a budget project in the absence of a sufficient majority and after confirming that “there is no viable government alternative”.
But discard your application in the regions or in the state, because “will face the alternative to the faculty of early dissolution, That is, the power of regional presidents to dissolve the courts and convene elections, in addition to the “constitutional tradition.”
As for the fulfillment of the budget, the report considers the “progressive bypass” of reality against the initial forecasts, as well as the “certain thoroughness” of negotiations: “Its effectiveness in the reality of expenses and investments is much lower than the political profitability of advertising on the agreements reached,” he says.
Reform of regional financing “is unlikely”
Another of the conclusions of scientists is that the climate of the political tension between the central government, the opposition and regional leaders are made “Very unlikely” reform of the regional financing system, Escalated for more than nine years.
“Any priority in the government is postponed to the fight for achieving the majority in the following universal elections and leads to the disappointment of any agreement that can arise as the success of the opposite,” says a document that criticizes this “absurd dynamics,” which extends ”from the slightest telly -producing” to the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy and the conference of teachers.