Overview
- Carlos Mazón has resigned and remains president in functions, keeping his regional seat and parliamentary privilege as the PP moves to name a successor.
- Under the Corts’ rules, the PP must propose a candidate within 12 working days and schedule an investiture by November 28; if no candidate is elected within two months of a first failed vote, elections would be triggered, which reports project for early April 2026.
- Alberto Núñez Feijóo phoned Santiago Abascal to start a negotiated transition and avoid new polls, with Vox saying the PP must first settle on a name.
- Juanfran Pérez Llorca is the preferred choice inside the Valencian PP, María José Catalá is Génova’s longstanding option, and Vicent Mompó figures only in a potential electoral scenario, according to the reporting.
- A new Guardia Civil UCO report cites direct exchanges between Koldo García and Minister Ángel Víctor Torres over pandemic mask payments, prompting PP leaders, including Miguel Tellado, to demand Torres’s resignation, as Senate testimony by Claudia Montes reiterated her claim that José Luis Ábalos said Pedro Sánchez “knew everything.”