The broker Víctor de Aldama has denied this Thursday before the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno that neither Francina Armengol, current president of the Congress of Deputies, in her time as president of the Balearic Islands, nor anyone from her government asked for or received commissions for the contract that was awarded to her company, Soluciones de Gestión, for the acquisition of medical supplies during the pandemic.

Pedro Sánchez has requested a meeting with Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of her visit to Rome next week. The prime minister, according to La Vanguardia from sources within the Italian Government, has accepted the proposal for a meeting at the Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the Executive, but for the moment the schedules do not quite align. The contacts, these same sources explain, are ongoing.

The spokesperson for Izquierda Unida, Enrique Santiago, stated this Thursday that he “has no doubt” that the United States “could have a political interest” in causing “a political crisis in the Government of Spain” and also “to punish those who may have worked to evade the illegal sanctions unilaterally imposed by the United States on Venezuela” for their collaboration in the investigation against the former president of the government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for, among other crimes, influence peddling in the case of the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra.

The Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, announced today in the Parliament, during the voting on amendments to the Catalan Public Employment Bill, the creation “for the first time” in Catalonia of 540 positions for national civil servants authorized to fill vacancies for secretaries and auditors in Catalonia. Dalmau assured that the process to implement these positions will be approved next week within the Catalan government.