Overview

• Felipe VI received Álvaro García Ortiz at Zarzuela, where he delivered the Fiscalía’s 2024 report, and he is due to speak Friday at the Supreme Court’s formal opening of the judicial year despite his pending trial for alleged revelation of secrets.
• PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo will skip the ceremony and attend a Madrid party event instead, with the party accusing the government of forcing the King to share an act with a prosecuted attorney general.
• Sources in the judiciary describe strong discomfort over García Ortiz’s presence but anticipate strict decorum at the ceremony, as the APIF association has publicly urged his resignation.
• Judge Juan Carlos Peinado ordered the Presidency to remit all emails linked to Begoña Gómez’s Moncloa account since July 2018 to the Guardia Civil’s UCO, and he rescheduled her questioning to 10 September.
• Alberto González Amador, partner of Madrid’s regional president, has appealed his processing for alleged tax fraud to the Audiencia Provincial of Madrid, with a decision pending.