Overview

• Spain’s Senate, with a PP majority, approved a motion urging Equality Minister Ana Redondo to resign or be removed over the bracelet failures.
• Government partners including Sumar, BNG and Comuns pressed for full explanations and a parliamentary appearance, while Podemos denied any device errors and labeled reports as disinformation.
• Vox filed questions in the European Parliament seeking scrutiny of funding and procurement and urging an investigation into the companies involved.
• Local records and police reports detail operational breakdowns: in Padul (Granada) an aggressor reached a victim’s home without triggering an alarm and the system showed him 80 km away, and judges in Málaga and Granada flagged broader malfunctions and evidentiary gaps.
• Use of the devices has expanded to about 4,515 nationwide but remains uneven—roughly 1,700 in Andalusia versus about 80 in Catalonia—and Equality says the 2026 tender will include stricter data-handover safeguards.