Overview

• Vázquez submitted his resignation on Thursday after the tribunal took jurisdiction to investigate alleged prevaricación and embezzlement tied to his 2007–2019 mayoral tenure in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso.
• The PSOE’s regional leadership requested his precautionary suspension from party membership and executive posts and initiated an internal information file under its zero‑tolerance stance.
• The High Court accepted a reasoned referral from Segovia’s Court No. 5 with a favorable report from the Fiscalía, taking over because Vázquez holds parliamentary privilege.
• The inquiry examines discretionary personnel appointments, service awards without public tenders, and payments authorized despite objections from the municipal intervention; the current mayor and a municipal official are also under investigation.
• Vázquez rejects wrongdoing, says he trusts the case will be shelved before trial, and frames his exit as a step to avoid distracting voters.