Más de 1.000 días sin nuevos Presupuestos: ¿hasta cuándo puede vivir España con las cuentas de 2023?

Despite the Statue of Liberty's iconic status as a symbol of the United States, it has still fallen victim to the U.S. government shutdown caused by a lack of budget approval. This shutdown has led to the closure of the monument on several occasions, including the longest recent closure which lasted 12 days in 2013. In contrast, Spain has not faced such extreme scenarios.

The Alhambra and the Prado Museum continue to receive visitors, and public spending has not been halted, despite Spain accumulating over 1,000 days without new general state budgets. The budgetary deadlock in Spain represents an anomaly and highlights the lack of legislation to address prolonged impasses. While legal provisions for prorogation are brief and do not cover scenarios where the deadlock lasts indefinitely, the Spanish Senate has initiated a constitutional dispute against the government for failing to present new budgets for years.

The Constitutional Court has accepted the conflict and is expected to rule by the end of the year. Senators argue that the government is violating its constitutional duty to draft and submit the budgets, thereby preventing Parliament from exercising its legislative function. There is currently no precedent to guide the resolution of this issue, as the closest case involved the declaration of unconstitutionality of a statute in the Basque Country in 2002, which was struck down by the Constitutional Court for violating principles of uniform and universal budgetary practice.