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PP to Call Zapatero and Ex-Aide Salazar to Senate as Funding Fight Intensifies

Using its Senate majority, the PP pairs new summons with a campaign to overturn the government's regional funding proposal.

Overview

  • The PP confirmed it will summon José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to the Senate inquiry linked to the 'Koldo' and Plus Ultra matters after the Audiencia Nacional opened preliminary proceedings on a Hazte Oír complaint.
  • Ex–Moncloa official Francisco "Paco" Salazar, accused in workplace and sexual harassment complaints, will also be called to testify, with PP leaders signaling they aim to hear from him before the February 8 Aragón vote.
  • At the party's interparliamentary meeting in A Coruña, Miguel Tellado pledged that a Feijóo government would scrap the financing plan outlined by María Jesús Montero and present an alternative within a year.
  • Feijóo convened PP regional presidents for a January 18 summit on financing, and PP-led regions will attend the January 14 CPFF to examine the proposal, with some considering walkout tactics to register dissent.
  • PSOE affiliates grappled with internal pressures as the PSdeG’s Comité Nacional addressed harassment cases with José Ramón Gómez Besteiro defending the party’s handling, and the PSPV sought to call Feijóo to the Congress DANA commission on January 27 to counter a PP-driven Senate focus on Pilar Bernabé.