Overview

• At a rally in Pamplona, PP secretary general Miguel Tellado urged supporters to “start digging the grave” for a government he called “agonizing,” a line the party later defended as political metaphor.
• President Pedro Sánchez denounced the remark on X as an insult to families with relatives in mass graves and as an appeal to violence, while PSOE leaders demanded Feijóo disavow his number two.
• Tellado argued the “real” start of the judicial year for the PSOE will be when Begoña Gómez appears before a judge this week, and he flagged ongoing cases involving the attorney general and former PSOE officials.
• The confrontation followed opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s boycott of the judicial-year opening, which he justified as a protest over Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz’s presence due to his prosecution.
• García Ortiz addressed the Supreme Court ceremony, drawing rare public applause and counter-acclamations that highlighted divisions, as Feijóo sharpened attacks on the government and emphasized a tougher line on illegal immigration while rejecting xenophobic rhetoric.