Overview

• Finance chief María Jesús Montero said the government will present the 2026 state budgets and voiced confidence that Junts will back them because they would benefit Catalunya.
• Junts deputy Josep Maria Cruset responded with open skepticism and reiterated that without meeting commitments to Catalunya there will be no budget support.
• Cruset cited what he called disastrous budget execution in Catalunya in 2023 and 2024 and recalled that Junts already blocked new national accounts last year.
• He warned that 2026 could again proceed without approved state budgets if the government does not offer substantive concessions.
• The clash followed Congress rejecting consideration of the PSOE–Junts bill to delegate immigration powers to the Generalitat with votes from PP, Vox and Podemos.