Once the electoral scrutiny of May 17 confirmed on the night of this Sunday its poor polling forecasts in Andalusia, the PSOE leadership hurried to put forward a flood of positive elements for their interests to try to overcome the fact that María Jesús Montero, with only 28 seats, broke through the historical low of the socialists in what was once their impregnable stronghold.

The alleged influence scheme of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is said to have met with a “guy from SEPI” (State Society of Industrial Participations), according to a report from the Economic and Financial Crimes Unit of the Police contained in the case file accessed by La Vanguardia. In that meeting, in addition to the “guy from SEPI,” one of the shareholders of Plus Ultra, Roberto Roselli; the friend and alleged frontman of the former Prime Minister, Julio Martínez Martínez; and Zapatero himself participated in a “clandestine” manner.

The Government of Pedro Sánchez insists on celebrating the endorsement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the Amnesty law as the explicit confirmation of the goal of its “brave and risky policies” for “reconciliation,” and to “appease” the institutional and social conflict that erupted in Catalonia in 2017 with the independence process. “Reconciliation has been achieved,” highlighted this Friday the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, in an interview on Ser.