The Pope has already arrived in Madrid. Around 10:30 AM, his plane landed at Adolfo Suárez Madrid -Barajas airport, where he was awaited by the King and Queen of Spain and other authorities, such as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the Mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, the Government Delegate, Francisco Martín, and the highest authorities of the Church, led by Cardinal José Cobo.

Pedro Sánchez’s Government has emerged from the last extraordinary plenary session of the political year with a bittersweet taste: it has saved three initiatives with the force of law, but has suffered a new defeat on the deficit path, which has been the most significant political vote of the day because it is the preliminary step to be able to present the State’s general budgets. This is the second time in two weeks that the Government has seen Congress reject, with votes from PP, Vox, and Junts, the stability path, a sign that it will have difficulty processing the accounts.

David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has an appointment this morning that will mark his future. The Provincial Court of Badajoz has summoned him at 9:30 a.m. to inform him of how it has resolved the preliminary issues that his defense raised last Thursday during the first session of the trial against him for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and malfeasance.