Overview
- Santos Cerdán was released after nearly five months in detention, with the judge ruling there is no longer a risk of evidence destruction following the latest UCO report.
- The UCO report alleges €6.7 million in illegal commissions linked to a figure tasked with party control and places Cerdán as an intermediary in a suspected kickback network.
- Emiliano García-Page predicted the next general elections will be held in 2026 and argued they should occur before municipal and regional votes.
- He said the 2023 local and regional results were decisively shaped by national politics and warned that sequence should not be repeated.
- García-Page criticized Pedro Sánchez’s leadership, urged criminal complaints against Leire Díez, and rejected the ‘you too’ defense comparing cases with the PP.