Junts inflicted a double defeat of enormous political significance on the Government in Congress this Tuesday by joining its votes with those of PP and Vox to overturn, with only a few minutes’ separation, two of the most sensitive initiatives of the legislature. These were the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium agreed between ERC and the PSC to strengthen the Generalitat’s participation in state investments in Catalonia. The setback hits the coalition hard on the eve of the Andalusian campaign, with polls already very adverse for the left against Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla’s PP, which aims to revalidate its absolute majority.

The Court of Auditors has ordered the former director of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (OAC), Daniel de Alfonso, to pay 142,484.47 euros unduly collected as seniority bonuses. The institution has partially upheld an appeal filed by the OAC itself and the Prosecutor’s Office against a ruling issued on October 31, which required De Alfonso to return 82,341.27 euros. The two appellants initially claimed 205,000 euros.

The popular prosecution led by the ultra-conservative organization Hazte Oír in the Begoña Gómez case has requested 24 years in prison for the wife of the Prime Minister for the four crimes proposed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, as well as a ban on leaving the country and the confiscation of her passport due to “flight risk”. It also requests 22 years for her advisor, Cristina Álvarez, and six for businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés. For her part, Pedro Sánchez’s wife has filed a complaint with the Madrid High Court against the investigation carried out by Peinado, in which she asks for his decision to close the investigation and prosecute her to be declared null and void, as she believes her defense rights have been violated.