Overview

• King Felipe VI asserted that public trust sustains institutional legitimacy and lauded judges for upholding equality before the law at the Gumersindo de Azcárate award ceremony
• Supreme Court President Isabel Perelló demanded an end to the politicization of justice and insisted that judges must work free from external pressures
• Justice Minister Félix Bolaños defended the government's proposed judicial reforms as vital for a modern democracy and ruled out a confidence vote despite growing scrutiny
• The PSOE is under intensified examination after a Supreme Court probe linked its former secretary of organization to alleged kickbacks in public works contracts
• The CGPJ’s reception of the Gumersindo de Azcárate prize at Madrid’s Casino de Madrid highlighted the widening rift between executive reform efforts and calls for judicial autonomy