The simultaneous advance of wildfires in central Spain has unleashed a new political confrontation between the Community of Madrid and the central government. While the regional president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested the declaration of operational situation 3 of national interest, the Government Delegation questions the measure and demands documentation to support it.

Pedro Sánchez’s Government has emerged from the last extraordinary plenary session of the political year with a bittersweet taste: it has saved three initiatives with the force of law, but has suffered a new defeat on the deficit path, which has been the most significant political vote of the day because it is the preliminary step to be able to present the State’s general budgets. This is the second time in two weeks that the Government has seen Congress reject, with votes from PP, Vox, and Junts, the stability path, a sign that it will have difficulty processing the accounts.