Overview
- Sánchez becomes only the second sitting prime minister to testify before a parliamentary inquiry, where witnesses must tell the truth and statements can be referred to prosecutors.
- The PP, which controls the Senate committee, has readied an aggressive questioning plan led by Senator Alejo Miranda de Larra, while Moncloa says Sánchez will present detailed rebuttals and defend his family.
- Sánchez plans to anchor his answers in PSOE records sent to the Supreme Court showing roughly €1 million in cash withdrawals from 2017 to 2024 from official accounts, which the party says rule out a parallel accounting.
- The appearance comes after the Supreme Court advanced a probe into a presumed PSOE ‘caja B’, with recent testimony and the ‘caso Koldo’ file citing alleged cash deliveries and links to figures such as Koldo García, Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos.
- The session unfolds as Junts shifts to formal opposition after the Perpignan announcement yet keeps its appointees on boards of RTVE, AENA, Renfe, the CNMC and Enagás, leaving immediate institutional effects limited.