{"id":6507,"date":"2026-01-14T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/influenzespain.com\/2026-el-final-de-la-tercera-legislatura-de-pedro-sanchez\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:42:10","slug":"2026-el-final-de-la-tercera-legislatura-de-pedro-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/influenzespain.com\/es\/2026-el-final-de-la-tercera-legislatura-de-pedro-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"2026, \u00bfel final de la tercera legislatura de Pedro S\u00e1nchez?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By: Sebastian Mariz<\/a>, Owner and Managing Director of InFluenze Spain<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

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November of 2025 marked the zenith of the third Mr. Pedro S\u00e1nchez legislature, with the Prime Minister and his cabinet immersed in multiple corruption scandals, relations strained with his communist, Catalan and Basque parliamentary partners and the opposition calling insistently for his resignation and new general elections.<\/p>\n\n

While it is impossible to predict how the second half of the legislature will unravel and when the next general elections will take place in Spain, certain recent developments provide some good indicators on when this might be.<\/p>\n\n

On the 17th<\/sup> of December, 2025, the European Commission accepted the Government\u2019s new, and last, addendum to the Spanish Recovery and Resilience Plan, opening the door to the final tranche of EU Recovery and Resilience Funds transferred to Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

The additional 33 billion euros, will allow S\u00e1nchez to continue operating despite not being able to adopt a new national budget. S\u00e1nchez has been able to operate without adopting a new national budget by rolling over the 2022 budget and avoiding what would be perceived as a vote of no-confidence, if his budget were rejected in Parliament and the Senate.<\/p>\n\n

The European Commission has until the end of the year to transfer these funds to the Spanish treasury.<\/p>\n\n

In order to achieve this crucial milestone for the survival of his Government and the continuity of this legislature, S\u00e1nchez was forced to present a highly watered-down addendum, setting out the limited political and legislative priorities and agenda for the next 12 months. The addendum was required to pave the way for payment from Brussels.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

The contents of the addendum were, in turn, largely set out by the PM\u2019s parliamentary coalition partners, and in particular the Catalan conservative and nationalist party, who announced in December that it would only support the Government on five legislative and policy initiatives in 2026, unless real progress was made in pardoning its exiled political leader, Mr. Carles Puigdemont, and in transferring immigration policy to the Government of Catalonia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

In light of this, the PM\u2019s policy and legislative agenda for 2026, include:<\/p>\n\n