The Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed the indictment of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, agreed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado. The investigating judge brought her, her advisor Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés to the brink of the defendant’s bench, for the crimes of influence peddling, corruption in private sector business, misappropriation, and embezzlement of public funds.

The Prison Surveillance Judge José Luis Castro has rejected the application of the semi-freedom regime to former ETA members Soledad Iparraguirre “Anboto” and Juan Ramón Carasatorre, which means their return to prison.

María Guardiola was sworn in this Wednesday as president of the Junta de Extremadura after the agreement with Vox with 61 measures. In total, Guardiola has obtained the support of 40 of the 65 deputies of the Extremadura Assembly: that is, the votes of the PP (29) and Vox (11).

The reunion of Pedro Sánchez with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Wednesday in the control session in Congress, has resulted in a tense struggle between the two to once again set the framework for the political debate. The leader of the Popular Party has thrown in his face both the corruption scandals affecting the Executive and the problems in public services due to the railway crisis after the Adamuz accident: “The only thing that matches your corruption is your incompetence,” he reproached him. And the President of the Government, in turn, reproached him for the pact sealed by the PP and Vox in Extremadura, which in his opinion “kicks the Constitution, violating the principle of equality among citizens and the principle of non-discrimination,” in the face of the “national priority” defended by the far-right.

The PP’s vote against has led to the defeat of the motion promoted by Vox in Congress, but the ultra-party won the battle it sought by imposing the concept of “national priority” in the parliamentary debate to drag the PP into pronouncing on it. The term, included in the government agreement with the popular party in Extremadura, has reopened discrepancies between both parties in the midst of the negotiation process for regional governments in Aragon, where an agreement seems imminent, and Castilla y León.