Cortes Castilla and León forced the regional president, Alfonso Fernández Manico (Popular Party), to face 2026 without budgets for next year. This is the fifth time he has extended the accounts in his time on the council, since 2019, and the sixth if the months of 2024 in which the community managed the previous year’s figures are considered. Manyiku confirmed that starting in March there will be budgets, which requires him to continue to govern either alone, in the face of an absolute majority that opinion polls show is unlikely, or through agreements with the same parties that voted on Thursday against his economic project. We are already weeks away from the electoral race, the date of the next elections, and the SWP and VOX are uniting their movements, as well as minority forces, to show the isolation of Manyweko, whose negotiations to reach a consensus have also failed, and according to those mentioned they were not very active.
The plenary session on Thursday confirmed what the opposition has indicated in recent weeks: that although these budgets are “expansive” and at historic levels in the region, the People’s Party has lacked partners since the far right gave up its hand in the summer of 2024. The leader accused his opponents, the parliamentarians on Thursday and in the spring elections, of harming, in his opinion, those citizens who would benefit from those financial plans that he and his advisors announced weeks ago by the government. Even she knew she would never be more than just air. “These budgets will be approved, if not now, in March,” Manyico declared, appealing to a “new majority” for which he would need to win an absolute majority for the People’s Party, which he did not achieve in 2019 or 2022, associating himself respectively with the Ciudadanos and Vox parties, or new alliances. These would-be partners are intended to be the ultras, who after last year’s divorce repeatedly harassed the PP on budget matters, but tempered it by blocking the success of the commission investigating the deadly summer fires with their votes. The People’s Party has once again condemned this “entanglement” between PSOE and Vox, as has happened in recent months. Far-right spokesman David Hierro warned his former ally: “Your fate is becoming increasingly bleaker.”
The session was held in the presence of the Socialist candidate in the room, as a witness, since Carlos Martínez has no record as a regional prosecutor and is attending the debate as mayor of Soria and the candidate of the Socialist Workers’ Party to return to the leadership of Castilla y León, a throne reserved for the Popular Party since 1987. This party, according to internal sources, is running opinion polls that would make it possible to win over the People’s Party, which with Manico achieved the two worst results in its history, despite this. Ultimately, he will hardly have the numbers to rise to regional leadership. Socialist spokeswoman Patricia Gómez Orbán stressed the lack of support from the president and implored him to call the ballots as soon as possible: “He is alone, in a minority. When the budgets are returned, he must dissolve the Cortes and call early elections.” The last possible day to authorize elections will be March 15, a date that the PP is adhering to internally to avoid a harsh winter in Castile and León and to increase participation to strengthen it; In 2022, the vote was held on February 13, and Vox once again emerged strongly in the polls against the struggling People’s Party. All if there are no movements in Madrid, with Manico admitting that if national elections are held he will ride this electoral train, or in other regions where the lack of alliances turns the tables, as is the case in Aragon.
This possibility depends on the strength and interests of local parties, such as the strengthened Leonidism of the Leonean People’s Union, Syria Oh! He was indirectly harmed by sharing geographic origin with Martínez and his potential influence on the Elector of Soria, or Por Ávila, an Ávila branch of the Popular Party that remained in office for two terms with a seat in the Cortes. All of them, along with Unidas Podemos, who are unlikely to repeat the agreement between Izquierda Unidas and Podemos due to differences between the two blocs, criticized Manico’s style and lack of willingness to negotiate. Many of them hinted at a “call” that never came, and Pablo Fernández, of Podemos, praised Manyueco for his ability to reach agreement with such a disparate chamber.
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