The Government’s parliamentary partners are expressing increasing concern and alarm following the judicial indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for several alleged corruption offenses linked to the multimillion-dollar economic bailout of the airline Plus Ultra during the pandemic crisis. However, at least for now, the Executive does not see this parliamentary support at risk to keep afloat a legislature that Pedro Sánchez intends to complete within a year, by July 2027.

El Govern and Esquerra Republicana have reached an agreement for the 2026 budgets. After two months of negotiations, socialists and republicans have reached a pact by which Catalunya will have its first accounts since 2023. To stage this understanding, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, will sign the pact tomorrow at 8 a.m. in the Palau de la Generalitat.

Until yesterday, the central Government appeared in public – and also in private – “absolutely calm” in the face of threats from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to withdraw his troops from Spain. Sources from Moncloa, who framed them within the hyperbolic rhetoric of the White House occupant, downplayed them by pointing out that it is enough to follow – “from logic and common sense” – the dotted line of the million-dollar American investments in the bases of Rota (Cádiz) and, to a lesser extent, Morón de la Frontera (Seville) to determine their future in the face of the repeated warnings coming from Washington. The inconsistency between the flood of millions of dollars and the Republican’s warnings led to the belief that it was just another salvo. The sequence is clarifying.

Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has dismissed the appeals filed by Begoña Gómez, her advisor in Moncloa Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés against his decision to refer the case to a jury if it ultimately goes to trial, while also once again rejecting the dismissal of the investigation for the crimes of influence peddling, corruption in private sector business, embezzlement, and misappropriation of public funds in relation to the chair held by the wife of the Prime Minister at the Complutense University of Madrid.