Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has requested her acquittal in the case for which she must be tried by a popular jury for the co-direction of a chair at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

The Balearic president, Marga Prohens, has demanded that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, provide explanations about the reports warning of the high risk of a massive arrival of migrants by sea to the Balearic Islands and, especially, about what measures the Executive took after receiving these warnings. Prohens considers it “very serious” that the institutions of the Islands were not informed of an alert that, as she has emphasized, directly affected the security of the community.

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation think tank and a very influential voice in Donald Trump, has claimed Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta this Friday. At an event in Santiago de Chile organized by the Disenso foundation, Vox’s think tank, Roberts repeated twice that Ceuta is a “Spanish city” and called for the support of the United States to Spain against the “invasion” by Morocco.

The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, announced this Friday the holding this autumn in Barcelona of a forum to promote business opportunities for Catalan companies and the rest of Spain with Ukraine after meeting with the Federation of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs.

The institutional clash between the Executive and the Judiciary had a new chapter today following the agreement of the Government Chamber of the National Court, which unanimously decided to defend Judge María Tardón, responsible for studying a complaint about the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta at the end of July.

The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) will not apply, for the moment, the amnesty to those considered architects of the procés, Josep Maria Jové and Lluís Salvadó, both leaders of ERC. The Civil and Criminal Chamber considers that the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of last July 16, favorable to granting amnesty, does not answer all the questions raised in relation to the case of Jové and Salvadó, both accused of embezzlement of public funds.