Overview

• The Partido Popular announced it will call the prime minister to the Senate commission probing the Koldo case, citing a new UCO report that documents cash envelopes from PSOE headquarters to José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García and Santos Cerdán.
• Investigators also flagged roughly €95,000 in Ábalos’s spending without bank justification, though the UCO did not determine whether the funds amount to illegal party financing.
• The commission’s Mesa must fix the timetable, with options of ordinary 15‑day notice or urgent three‑day notice, and the PP is aiming for the last week of October.
• If the appearance happens, Sánchez would be the second sitting prime minister to testify before a parliamentary commission, the first since José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2004.
• The government says it will attend and argues the report does not prove illicit financing, while the PP fine‑tunes its questioning as Ábalos and Koldo prepare to testify at the Supreme Court in mid‑October and some conservatives caution that Sánchez could emerge politically reinforced.