Overview
- Lawmakers approved taking the reform into consideration with broad backing from PSOE, PP, Sumar and others, while Vox voted no and Podemos abstained conditionally.
- Podemos warned it will oppose the final text unless its amendments are accepted, proposing to raise the minimum chamber size to 47 seats and to add a sixth, regionwide constituency.
- The draft modernizes the 1982 statute by entrenching social rights, shielding health, education and social services, limiting legal privileges for officials and recognizing comarcas.
- The text raises the regional parliament’s ceiling from 33 to up to 55 deputies while keeping a 25-seat floor, a point defended by PSOE and PP and targeted by critics.
- Vox denounced the plan in the plenary and its deputy Manuel Mariscal tore up a copy of the text, attacking the proposed regional tax agency and the increase in seats, as the bill now heads through committee, a return to plenary and then the Senate with approval targeted before summer 2026.