Ultimatum from the commons to Collboni: they will allow the Barcelona budget to be processed, but they will overturn it if there is no left-wing pact. Ada Colau's party insists that neither ERC nor the mayor herself are an impediment to a tripartite government.

"One issue goes with the other, you cannot ask for a blank check,” he stressed and warned about the possibility that the budget would end up being approved as a matter of trust.