Overview

• Spain’s political focus has swung to the courts after a UCO report on ex‑minister José Luis Ábalos cited payments to third parties, personal expenses, foundation transfers and messages about envelopes bearing the PSOE logo.
• Senior Socialists and Moncloa aides are treating the legislature as a precampaign, with internal voices discussing an electoral window as a way to blunt the momentum of judicial cases, according to party and government sources.
• Mexico’s ruling Morena faces backlash after a New York Times investigation spotlighted luxury travel and designer goods among prominent figures, prompting Senate president Laura Itzel Castillo to urge autocrítica.
• At Claudia Sheinbaum’s first‑year event in Mexico City’s Zócalo, previously front‑row Morena power brokers including Adán Augusto López, Ricardo Monreal, Andrés Manuel López Beltrán and Luisa Alcalde were visibly relegated behind barriers, a shift Monreal described as being “cornered.”
• Sheinbaum paired a public vow that anyone who betrays the people will face justice with messaging of loyalty to Andrés Manuel López Obrador and defended legal overhauls, as coverage framed the spectacle as a controlled show of unity and discipline.