Overview

• The PP filed a complaint with the anti-corruption prosecutor against Leire Díez, Jacobo Teijelo and Javier Pérez Dolset for alleged bribery, influence peddling, obstruction of justice and criminal conspiracy.
• ERC and Junts backed the PP’s bid to summon Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after recordings showed Díez offering legal favours to entrepreneurs in exchange for information meant to discredit the Guardia Civil’s UCO.
• The PSOE opened disciplinary proceedings against Díez that could lead to her expulsion for harming the party’s reputation.
• The PP has organized protests in Madrid demanding Sánchez’s resignation and early general elections over the alleged misuse of state institutions.
• Podemos is weighing support for the PP’s summons or lodging its own request to force Sánchez to testify on the Leire Díez affair.