Overview

• Alberto Núñez Feijóo refused to attend the Supreme Court’s opening of the judicial year in protest at the presence of prosecuted fiscal general Álvaro García Ortiz, calling the situation a “bochorno.”
• Senior PP figures reinforced the criticism—Miguel Tellado labeled García Ortiz’s role an “afrenta” and Isabel Díaz Ayuso decried his speech—while the EPP asked the European Commission to respond to perceived attacks on judicial independence.
• Despite public backing, some PP officials privately voiced reservations about the boycott’s risks, according to La Razón.
• In Argentina, national and Buenos Aires city teams are drafting a transfer of the Federal Penitentiary Service and exploring a Ley Cafiero–based executive path to bypass Congress, as the city legislature advances local penitentiary and sentence-execution bills.
• Official data highlight overcrowding in CABA police stations and jails (2,403 detainees, 364 convicted), and deputies failed to launch a fentanyl death probe after the Asuntos Constitucionales chair declined to convene the required joint session.