Overview

• Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz postponed the congressional vote on reducing the workweek to the autumn session after Junts requested additional analysis time.
• Justice Minister Félix Bolaños entered last-minute talks with Junts over 30 amendments seeking a Catalan Judicial Council and curbs on the Audiencia Nacional’s powers.
• Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente ordered provisional detention for former PSOE organization secretary Santos Cerdán in the Koldo corruption case.
• Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska convened an extraordinary hate-crimes commission meeting following xenophobic riots in Torre Pacheco that led to 13 arrests.
• Regional leaders in Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León condemned the singular financing agreement for Catalonia, warning it could break the common treasury and undermine investments elsewhere.