Overview

• The PSE–PNV draft lifts municipal taxes, fees and public prices by 2.7% for 2026 and raises the household waste bill by 5.8%, with new income bands and higher charges for some elder services.
• EH Bildu proposes a 2.2% overall increase, rejects the 5.8% waste hike and the planned rises for home-help and other senior services, and calls for expanded social discounts.
• Elkarrekin Podemos files 17 amendments seeking to cap the general rise at 1%, revamp commercial waste charging with a door-to-door model, and increase organic-recycling rebates to 15% plus 5% for Reutilizagune users.
• The city is developing an app to show each household’s brown-bin openings toward the recycling discount, after only 2.3% of homes qualified for the current 10% rebate this year.
• Opposition amendments will be debated on Wednesday, as critics question charging residents before a €355 million, 10-year waste contract is re-tendered and its costs and timing are settled; the Social Council views a 2.7% rise as broadly in line with inflation.