The Govern and Esquerra Republicana are in the final phase of budget negotiations and, to finalize these accounts, both parties will announce next Monday one of the commitments that will facilitate the agreement: the orbital railway line. The talks are advanced to the point that ERC has called its national council, the highest body between congresses, for next Monday at 5:30 p.m. to assess whether the conditions are met to approve the budgets.

The Vatican flag has been flying since Thursday in Brians 1, the penitentiary center of Sant Esteve Sesrovires that will receive Leo XIV on Wednesday, becoming the first Pope to visit a Spanish prison. A brigade of bricklayers works tirelessly tidying up the auditorium that will host the Pontiff’s meeting with eighty inmates and twenty prison officials. The walls are immaculately white and smell of fresh paint.

The PP has reacted immediately after it became known that the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been charged with the alleged crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling, and forgery in the so-called Plus Ultra case. Miguel Tellado, secretary general of the Popular Party, has stated that this fact “is of extreme seriousness” and has linked Pedro Sánchez to the case.

The wife of the Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, is expected to file a complaint against the well-known far-right troublemaker Vito Quiles for an alleged “assault” suffered inside a café, according to sources from La Moncloa.