Overview
- PP and Vox used their combined majority to approve the 2026 budget in the Asamblea de Extremadura, which passed on Wednesday, July 29 with government votes and the opposition fully rejected.
- The law sets total spending at €8,854 million, the largest in the region’s history, and includes reductions in the first autonomous IRPF tranches and other fiscal measures the government says will return about €43 million to taxpayers.
- Coalition amendments reallocate roughly €41 million across departments, give Vox named subsidies for family and rural priorities and cut some cooperation and union grants, while the PP inserted four named conservation subsidies totaling €216,000 and moved an LGTBI family programme to Equality to preserve its funding.
- Opposition parties called the vote exclusionary and argued the late July approval and short remaining calendar year will limit the budget’s practical effect, while the regional government says execution has already begun using prior credit modifications.
- The move closes a two‑year budget deadlock that led to early elections and will be followed by a close review of 2027 accounts, a dynamic mirrored by the PP‑only approval this week of Galicia’s 2027 spending ceiling and fresh partisan disputes over regional finances.