The group that was formed in April 2024 to disrupt judicial processes – and those who led them – with little success consisted of nine people, although not all with the same role. There may be more, but now, Judge Santiago Pedraz limits it to them, assigning them the roles of leader, his second-in-command, financiers, and executors. All of them have been caught, as always happens, by new facts that have appeared in another case. Now they will have to provide explanations. Who are they, what connects them, what drives them?

The court judging the Kitchen case, the alleged parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas between 2013 and 2015, finished yesterday hearing the recordings submitted as evidence in the case and today will begin to listen to the ten accused, including former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez. The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 15 years in prison for both.

At least for a few days, from today until June 4, the epicenter of judicial life will move from Madrid to Badajoz. In the Extremadura city, the trial for the alleged irregularities in the 2017 hiring of David Sánchez, brother of the current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, by the Diputación de Badajoz, begins this Thursday. The oral hearing at the provincial court will put Sánchez and ten other defendants on the bench, for the alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling.

The show is judged by the last act, always meant to dazzle, capture attention, and monopolize the commentary. That is the reality. When the show of judge José Luís Calama has not yet ended on track number one, the UDEF and José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero,…

The relentless succession of information about alleged corruption around the PSOE is already having an effect on Pedro Sánchez’s parliamentary allies. Nerves are beginning to show in some, although for now there are no signs of a possible change of side.