Leire Díez was appointed in April 2024, by order of the then PSOE organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, to initiate a series of actions to save the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez’s circle from the legal cases that threatened them and to dig up dirt on their political rivals. Now, the Audiencia Nacional has uncovered these dealings and found a large amount of audio material because Díez recorded those clandestine meetings, where she offered agreements with the Prosecutor’s Office and claimed to be the emissary of the PSOE and the Government to “put themselves on the right side of history.”

With the absence of Margarita Robles, the third minister to do so in just one week, the Government has opted for the path of fait accompli in its standoff with the Senate, dominated by the PP. The Executive denies that this is a “snub” following the migration crisis of July 30 in Ceuta — where 72,000 people crossed the border and more than 140 died — and claims that the ministers will attend “later.” The maneuver, however, allows it to freeze explanations in the hostile territory of the PP’s absolute majority until September, when more than a month will have passed since the tragedy.

Former Prime Minister José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero will grant an interview to public television this Thursday. It is his first public appearance after his indictment and after having testified before the judge, José Luís Calama, who is investigating him in the National Court.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sold to the businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, located at the center of the plot investigated by judge José Luis Calama, a house in Almería in 2011, the last year of his term as President of the Government, according to the report from the National Office for Fraud Investigation (ONIF) submitted to the case file, which does not specify the exact date of the transaction.