Overview
- Spain’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to order provisional imprisonment without bail for former minister José Luis Ábalos and his ex‑advisor Koldo García after preliminary hearings.
- The judge has not yet ruled on the detention requests tied to an investigation into alleged illegal commission payments.
- The government lost a key congressional vote on the deficit trajectory, a setback that complicates preparation of the national budget.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo said the executive lacks a parliamentary majority and described the day’s developments as an unprecedented judicial agenda.
- Vox leader Santiago Abascal urged witness protection for Ábalos and Koldo and pressed for a censure strategy, while also levelling unproven corruption accusations against Sánchez and the PSOE, citing ongoing judicial inquiries including a request for PSOE cash-payment records from 2017–2024.