All election campaigns tend to deviate from their initial trajectory. The PP had designed a white, friendly campaign. The PSOE a red campaign, shouting long live healthcare and public services in general. But everything changed at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 150 kilometers off the coast of Huelva, when two Civil Guard agents died in an accidental collision during an anti-drug operation. As expected, those deaths have become a central part of the campaign.

The head of Barcelona’s investigating court number 24, María Antonia Coscollola, has closed the case opened against three Mossos d’Esquadra officers accused of having helped the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, during his fleeting visit to Barcelona on August 8, 2024, coinciding with Salvador Illa’s investiture session in the Parliament as president of the Generalitat.

Already last week, when rumors began to circulate about the existence of a possible judicial investigation into José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Moncloa claimed that “there is no evidence of the accusations” against the former Prime Minister that could incriminate him in the case of the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra. In the Government, moreover, they have always maintained that there was no irregularity in the aid granted to this airline after the coronavirus pandemic crisis. “Zero concern,” they cut off at the Moncloa.