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Spain Regional Budget News Almost half of the autonomous communities, eight of the seventeen, will start next year without budgets and in a good number of cases because the political landscape has been complicated by the proximity of the regional elections in May, which complicate relations between parties who have been partners The socialist governments of Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Aragón, and those of the PP of La Rioja and Castilla y León are without accounts and at the gates of the electoral campaign. They are added Catalonia, Basque Country and Andalusia, which do not have autonomous in 2019 and are without budgets for different reasons. The extension of the 2018 accounts does not have to be definitive; A Budget may be approved in the first months of the year, but the timetable is getting closer because at the end of March the parliaments will be dissolved for holding the elections. (El Pais)