More than ten years ago, in the midst of the Great Recession, the two main parties in Spain, the PSOE and the PP, agreed to a constitutional reform to accept and comply with the debt reduction demanded by Brussels from the most indebted countries. This led to the creation of a permanent constraint on public spending enshrined in the Spanish Constitution under the name of "budgetary stability," paving the way for Mariano Rajoy's (PP) government to later pass the so-called Budgetary Stability Law in 2012. All of this required public administrations to be very restrictive with spending.