Overview

• A UCO report has implicated former PSOE secretaries José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán in a bribery scheme linked to public works contracts
• ERC’s Teresa Jordá and Sumar’s Alberto Ibáñez have warned they may withdraw support unless Sánchez takes swift, decisive measures on graft
• At the NATO summit in The Hague, President Trump publicly labeled Spain “a problem” for refusing to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP
• Sánchez has defended maintaining Spain’s current 2% defense budget as sufficient to meet alliance commitments without undermining welfare programs
• Parliament has scheduled separate monographic debates on the corruption allegations and NATO summit fallout, intensifying scrutiny of the government’s handling of both crises