Overview
- Guardia Civil UCO agents told judges they recovered invoices, emails and chat logs that they say show payments labeled as “Elecciones Europeas 2024” were used to fund a network tied to influence operations and that a May 2024 invoice was paid to Crónica Libre.
- Investigators say Santos Cerdán helped channel financing to the media outlet and that Leire Díez held repeated contacts with the Guardia Civil director with message‑deletion settings noted in UCO report 89/2026.
- In Badajoz testimony the UCO asserted that former Diputación president Miguel Ángel Gallardo 'impulsed' creation of the conservatory coordinator post that prosecutors say benefited David Sánchez, citing emails, calendar entries and Airbnb searches as evidence.
- In Argentina the withdrawal of María Verónica Michelli’s judicial nomination triggered a senior rift in La Libertad Avanza when Patricia Bullrich offered her resignation, the Senate agreed to postpone the pliego vote to next week and President Javier Milei publicly defended the pullback on X.
- A coalition of 21 Peruvian business groups demanded strict technical controls, international observation and military custody of ballots for the June 7 runoff, a move that underscores rising institutional pressure on electoral trust across the region.