Overview
- Multiple regional and municipal governments approved their 2027 budget projects on Friday, October 30, 2026, sending draft bills into parliamentary or validation processes that set higher overall spending levels across several territories.
- The Junta de Andalucía formally delivered a €54.716 billion draft to the regional Parliament that allocates about two-thirds of spending to social policies, earmarks roughly €17.037 billion for health, and plans roughly 2,500 new health hires while adopting Vox-requested cuts to immigration, cooperation and some union grants.
- The Community of Madrid approved a record €32.9115 billion budget with large increases for health and education, six new tax cuts, and planned investments in housing and transport that face public-sector strikes in health and education sectors.
- Valencia’s City Council provisionally approved a €1.580 billion municipal budget with votes from PP, Vox and two expelled Vox councillors, Juanma Badenas and Cecilia Herrero, a dynamic that preserves Mayor María José Catalá’s executive for now but raises short-term uncertainty ahead of final validation in November.
- The budgets include province-level investment packages for Cádiz, Almería, Córdoba and others and reflect shrinking EU recovery funds that lower available investment financing, a factor that could force tougher choices in final parliamentary amendments and influence coalition stability going into the new year.