To be the leader of the PSOE, it is necessary to have the support of the membership in Andalusia and Catalonia. Due to their weight in members, they constitute the two key strongholds to control the party. As long as Salvador Illa holds the presidency of the Generalitat and has the absolute backing of the PSC, Sánchez will have that flank more than covered. But Andalusia has long been the most complicated and decisive territory in the party congresses. And that is where María Jesús Montero comes into play, the president of the Government’s go-to person.

“Were they killing her with tequilas?”. The first control session in the Assembly of Madrid after Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s eventful institutional trip to Mexico has resulted this Thursday in a cascade of ironies from the opposition about the supposed “extreme risk” that, according to the Madrid president, she faced during her stay in the Latin American country. The plenary thus staged the clash between an Ayuso determined to denounce an alleged political boycott orchestrated from La Moncloa and a left that has ridiculed a narrative it considers exaggerated, victimizing, and full of accusations without evidence.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will make a trip to Italy in the last week of May, which includes a meeting at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV fourteen days before the visit that the Pontiff will make to Spain, according to the Agencia Efe and confirmed to La Vanguardia at Moncloa.

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, advocates for Catalonia to free itself from complexes to become a hub of talent attraction in innovation and new technologies. From Palo Alto, a city integrated into the Californian Silicon Valley region, where Illa has met with leaders of local startups, the head of the Government has expressed the hope that Catalonia can “lead the next 10 years without asking anyone for permission.”

Half-hearted contrition for the infiltration of agents from the Mossos de Esquadra information police station in a teachers’ union assembly. Neither mea culpa nor chest beating. The interior minister, Núria Parlon, and the director general of the Police, Josep Lluís…