Overview

• Miguel Tellado told a PP rally in Pamplona that it was time to “start digging the grave where the remains of a Government will rest,” a line his team later said was not a reference to Civil War victims.
• Pedro Sánchez called the phrase an insult to families with relatives in mass graves and an encased appeal to violence, while PSOE urged Alberto Núñez Feijóo to disavow his number two.
• Tellado argued the “real” start of the judicial calendar will be Wednesday with Begoña Gómez’s court appearance, and he tied that to cases involving the attorney general, the ‘Koldo’ affair and figures linked to Santos Cerdán.
• The row follows Feijóo’s boycott of the judicial year’s opening, where prosecuted attorney general Álvaro García Ortiz spoke beside the King; Feijóo said he was glad not to attend and denounced a “degradation” of institutions.
• PSOE spokesperson Patxi López labeled Feijóo a “hooligan” and said the PP is drifting into an antisystem posture, as Feijóo hardens his tone, aligns with Isabel Díaz Ayuso and escalates attacks while rejecting overtly xenophobic rhetoric.