Overview
- Junts has formally broken its investiture deal, a move ratified by over 86% of members, removing its seven deputies from Sánchez’s working majority and urging partners like PNV, Coalición Canaria and Podemos to reconsider their support.
- Valencia’s Provincial Court has ordered journalist Maribel Vilaplana to testify on Monday in Catarroja about her 29‑October lunch with President Carlos Mazón, focusing on timing and what he was told, ahead of potential appearances by Mazón in the Valencian Corts on 11 November and in Congress on 17 November.
- Media reports say Vilaplana showed Mazón a WhatsApp video of Utiel under water around 17:40, a claim her entourage denies, while official phone logs show eight subsequent calls from Mazón’s mobile, including four with then‑emergencies chief Salomé Pradas.
- The PP’s national leadership is preparing a negotiated transition to replace Mazón while preserving his aforado status, weighing options such as Juanfran Pérez Llorca or María José Catalá, as a push by provincial leaders to elevate Vicent Mompó triggers internal friction and Vox’s leverage looms over any succession vote.
- Catalonia’s main business group, Foment del Treball, says it will keep Junts as an ally for as long as the legislature lasts, citing the party’s reliability on measures affecting labor hours and taxation.