The expected confession of businessman Julio Martínez Martínez fell short. According to legal sources, it could be an advance, an announcement of his predisposition to collaborate, but it was not a complete statement that would allow finding out who former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero influenced, among other things, to achieve the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra, which was granted 53 million euros after the pandemic to prevent its eventual financial collapse.

Contrary to expectations, the 24-year prison sentence for José Luis Ábalos for corruption offenses when he was Minister of Transport not only harms the PSOE, but seems to boost it, according to the July barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), published this Wednesday, in which the socialists gain almost two points in estimated vote (33%) compared to June and recover an eight-point lead over the PP (25.1%), which loses two points in a month. Vox continues to lose momentum and would now obtain 15.3%, half a point less than in the last survey, and Sumar (6.1%) also loses three tenths.

The first televised tournament among the five candidates, five, for the Quirinale was like a meeting of ill-matched neighbors – where each community member repeats their traumas and no one talks about the stairwell spillage – rather than a (civilized) exchange of views. There was no duel,