Overview
- The upper house formally lodged a conflict of powers after the government failed to present a 2026 budget bill or reply to an October demand.
- The Popular Party majority initiated the move, which the Senate adopted after a 22 October vote that passed 144–101 with 14 abstentions.
- The claim argues the executive has breached its constitutional duty to submit annual budgets, blocking full parliamentary debate, amendment and oversight.
- The Senate asks judges to annul extensions of the 2023 accounts applied in 2024 and 2025 and to address any legal effects if those rollovers are struck down.
- The case also cites past budget impasses in 1995 and 2019 as precedents tied to confidence loss, while stressing the Constitutional Court has yet to rule.