Overview

• Government sources say trusted channels with Podemos have collapsed and relations are openly hostile, complicating the 2026 budget path.
• Belarra argues the plan to present new accounts is a tactic to force snap elections, pointing to the PSOE’s corruption troubles.
• Podemos calls its support for the budget “almost impossible” and conditions any backing on drastic rent controls, breaking ties with Israel, and rejecting additional defense spending.
• Belarra says her party will vote against transferring migration powers to Catalonia and accuses the Mossos and other police forces of a racist bias, labeling the PSOE–Junts pact “racist.”
• She urges diverting planned defense outlays to public services, proposing that forest firefighting brigades become public employees.