Overview

• Alberto Núñez Feijóo skipped the Supreme Court ceremony presided by King Felipe VI, calling it a “bochorno” because fiscal general Álvaro García Ortiz, who is prosecuted, delivered the address.
• Senior PP figures amplified the criticism, with Miguel Tellado labeling García Ortiz’s role an “afrenta” and Isabel Díaz Ayuso arguing it is improper for him to speak before judges who may try him.
• The European People’s Party, via Dolors Montserrat, formally asked the European Commission what steps it will take to address what it describes as attacks on judicial independence in Spain.
• In Argentina, national and Buenos Aires City teams are drafting a transfer of the Federal Penitentiary Service to CABA, and city legal advisers are examining a decree-based path under the 1997 Ley Cafiero to bypass Congress as the local legislature advances a penitentiary framework.
• The draft under discussion would move detainees and facilities — including an Ezeiza pavilion, a Marcos Paz sector and the deactivation of Devoto — with staff and funds, as official data cite 2,403 detainees in CABA stations and jails with 364 convicted; separately, deputies failed to launch a fentanyl probe after the key committee chief did not convene a joint plenary.