The Government of Pedro Sánchez passed the summer examination of the Congress’s Permanent Deputation this Wednesday without a numerical blemish. The official record will reflect a clean plenary session, with zero lost votes for the investiture bloc and the withdrawal by the PP of the request to force the president’s appearance, after Moncloa previously announced that Sánchez would appear on his own initiative. But the political storm has run through underground waters. Just weeks before a decisive political year begins, with the negotiation of the general budgets on the horizon and the call for elections increasingly close, the investiture partners have taken advantage of the parliamentary return to remind the Executive that what they granted at the beginning of the legislature is not a blank check.

At the end of the reports from the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police, the investigators reach the “conclusion” that there is “sufficient evidence” to place José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the head of an organized network of influence peddling in favor of clients – such as Plus Ultra – who would pay, through a corporate environment controlled by his partner, the former Prime Minister.