Just over 24 hours before a vote considered lost in Congress, the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, has opened a crack for negotiation. He assured this Monday that he still sees an agreement with Junts as “possible” and “viable” to validate the rental decree, despite the repeated rejection by Catalan separatists in recent days, which seems to condemn the norm to a new parliamentary defeat; a refusal that they maintained this very Monday with no room for maneuver.

The Tarragona judge investigating former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro has rejected the request of several defenses to send the case to the Madrid courts, thus maintaining the instruction of the case.

The heads of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went today to ratify all the reports they have prepared regarding the corruption plot that revolved around the former Minister of Transport and PSOE Secretary General José Luis Ábalos. They did not hesitate for a minute. Although businessman Víctor de Aldama was the corruptor, the one who had the money, and the one who, therefore, gave orders, none of this could have happened without Ábalos. “Without the minister, they would not have been able to carry out any of the procedures,” explained Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas.

As soon as she stood in front of the microphone, in the middle of the courtroom of the Audiencia Nacional where Operation Kitchen is being tried, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría recalled the string of positions she accumulated during Mariano Rajoy’s time in Moncloa: sole Vice President of the Government, Government spokesperson, and Minister of the Presidency, from which the National Intelligence Center (CNI) depended. Despite this accumulation of power, Sáenz de Santamaría has “no knowledge” —not even “no recollection”— of the operation, allegedly orchestrated from the Ministry of Interior, to steal documentation from the former treasurer of the Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas.

Jordi Pujol i Soley will be condemned by history or time, but not by the courts. The Audiencia Nacional decided this morning that the former president of the Generalitat, 95 years old, is not in a condition to be tried, given the cognitive deterioration he suffers.