Overview
- After a five-hour appearance, Pedro Sánchez rejected claims of illegal party financing, labeled the Senate inquiry a defamation and a circus, and acknowledged occasional small cash reimbursements against invoices.
- The PP’s lead interrogator, senator Alejo Miranda, pressed aggressively but drew mostly evasions such as “no me consta,” and the session yielded no decisive new evidence against the president.
- PSOE-A, Por Andalucía and Adelante Andalucía jointly requested a parliamentary commission on failures in Andalusia’s breast-cancer screening program and boycotted the presentation of the 2026 regional budget.
- Prosecutors in Seville and at the Andalusian High Court are investigating alleged disappearance or alteration of patient records and diagnostic tests in SAS systems ClicSalud+ and Diraya, which the regional Health Ministry denies.
- With its absolute majority, the PP-A can block the Andalusian commission by filing a written objection before Nov. 1; if it does not object, the commission can be constituted, and a debate would occur in any case if it is rejected.