The Government has defended this Thursday, with an extensive document, the loan of 53 million euros granted on March 9, 2021 to the airline Plus Ultra. A financial aid, charged to the support fund for the solvency of strategic companies after the coronavirus pandemic crisis, now in the eye of the legal, political, and media storm following the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged corruption crimes that would have their origin in this Executive rescue.

The Government suffered yesterday in Congress one of the most resounding parliamentary defeats of the legislature after PP, Vox and Junts joined forces to overturn the housing decree promoted by one of the partners, Sumar.

Jéssica Rodríguez, former partner of José Luis Ábalos, accompanied the then minister on 13 official trips “national and international” out of the 293 registered by the head of Transport, according to what was declared this morning by Ana María Aranda, former secretary of Ábalos in the trial being held before the Supreme Court against the former socialist minister, his former advisor Koldo García and the commissioner Víctor de Aldama.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned in its latest annual report that last year disinformation campaigns have established themselves as “a prominent vector” of instability for Spain. The body that advises the President of the Government on National Security matters has identified Russia as the main actor from which campaigns aimed at influencing political processes, eroding trust in institutions, shaping public opinion, and weakening international cooperation originated.

“Let Moreno Bonilla tremble this Sunday!”, warned the socialist José Antonio Carranza, mayor of the town of Pulianas in Granada, where the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held his penultimate rally of the Andalusian electoral campaign this Wednesday to support María Jesús Montero, before concluding his electoral tour for the 17-M next Friday in Seville.