The current president of the Junta of Andalusia and candidate for re-election for the Popular Party, Juanma Moreno, would have managed to secure an absolute majority in the regional elections held this Sunday, according to polls conducted by Sigma Dos for Canal Sur and NC Report for La Razón, which give the socialist candidate, María Jesús Montero, the worst results for the PSOE in the community in its entire history. The polls thus depict a scenario of free hands for the Andalusian president, without the constraints of Vox, which shows clear signs of stagnation.

The Portuguese Police have arrested Emilio Vázquez Blanco, former Organization Secretary of the PSOE in A Coruña and former regional parliamentarian in Galicia, as part of an alleged corruption scheme involving a former advisor of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and related to the awarding of irregular contracts in municipalities of the neighboring country.

The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, met this Thursday afternoon in Kiev with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Presidential Office of the Ukrainian head of state. The meeting served for the Catalan leader to convey Catalonia’s solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to invite the country’s president to visit Barcelona and Catalonia.

Possible sanctions against judge Juan Carlos Peinado, investigating judge in the case of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, have been left up in the air. The Permanent Commission of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) met this morning to study the complaints filed against Peinado. There was no agreement and the members of the commission have agreed to re-examine the issue “in the coming days”.