La Audiencia Nacional resumes the Kitchen trial, which this week will have only one session, this Monday, in which the former deputy operational director of the Police, Eugenio Pino, and the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo are scheduled to testify about an alleged parapolice operation between 2013 and 2015 to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
While in Spain we are anxiously playing on the edge with democracy, Pope Leo XIV has identified the great flaw on which the democracies of the 21st century, including the Spanish one, are based: guaranteeing life projects through work and the social question, a…
Just on the days when Giorgia Meloni was avoiding a meeting with Pedro Sánchez in Rome citing scheduling issues, her party was preparing a confidential dossier against the Spanish Prime Minister. The title is eloquent: “The Spanish Senate censures the Sánchez Government.” The subtitle goes even further: “Yet another blow to the idol of the left.”
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.
The phrase from former advisor Koldo García in his final statement in the trial for the Mask case, at the Supreme Court, was prophetic: “This has only just begun.” On that May 6, who was the right hand of José Luis Ábalos, Minister of Transport until 2021, said that phrase before hearing the “ready for sentencing” that would send him back to Soto del Real prison. He remains there.
“While the scheming opposition can continue maneuvering, we will keep governing until 2027 and for as long as the Spanish people want,” warned Pedro Sánchez. In a climate of total uncertainty amid the flood of legal cases surrounding the political and family environment of the Prime Minister, and without knowing how far these processes may escalate but also with no expectation that the storm will subside, nothing is better than a good warm bath of youthful socialist militancy to try to catch one’s breath and, at the same time, attempt to inject fighting spirit into troops torn between indignation and discouragement.
The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, participates this Sunday in a public event in Madrid on the occasion of the Congress of Socialist Youth, in a week in which the developments in the Leire Díez case and the investigation of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero have led Junts to join the PNV’s request to bring forward the elections.
Perhaps waiting for the best moment to call elections, Pedro Sánchez missed the opportunity. That remains to be seen. The only certainty is that the leader of the PSOE has not seen a favorable moment since last year, when the Government arrived besieged and exhausted in the summer. The avalanche…
The “Spain case” continues to make headlines worldwide. A few weeks ago, the firm stance of the Spanish Government against the start of the Iran war became a reference point. It seemed like the brave culmination of a calculated strategy to distance itself from the postulates and demands of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, was on the rise, seeming to dare to say what other European politicians remain silent about.
The story of how José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was put under siege begins in October 2024 and ends in May 2026. It started as a casual discovery, a “ZP” on a phone, a “Z” that was not enough. In recent years, besides the public – and notorious – nature of his ties with Venezuela, the former prime minister had been involved in the socialist electoral campaigns as a lifeline for Pedro Sánchez. Nineteen months after that “ZP,” a judge from the National Court ordered the search of his office. How did the Police and, above all, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office manage to find him?