Overview

• PP spokesperson Alicia García said the censure motion against Óscar Puente will go to next week’s plenary, where the party’s absolute majority guarantees approval.
• The Senate’s Koldo commission scheduled Navarra president María Chivite to testify on September 29 about contracts the PP labels suspicious during her tenure.
• The PP cites what it calls railway mismanagement as grounds for the censure, pointing to train cancellations, long delays, breakdowns, alleged invented sabotages and structural faults.
• Popular senators accuse Puente of shielding the hiring of José Luis Ábalos’s partner, refusing to help clarify possible kickbacks in public works and using public resources to target opponents.
• The PP will request the contents of Leire Díez’s pendrive delivered to PSOE headquarters and her work record, asserting the drive holds files on officials tied to probes of party corruption.