Overview
- Pedro Sánchez has asked each ministry to present three or four social initiatives that can be implemented in 2026 without a parliamentary vote, with the plan designed to regain political initiative.
- The government concedes its legislative output will be limited, forecasting roughly a dozen laws through the summer and preparing to lodge the 2026 Budget in the first quarter without assured support.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo delivers his year‑end balance today, arguing the legislature is exhausted, spotlighting corruption cases affecting the PSOE, and touting PP momentum into Aragón, Castilla y León and Andalucía.
- Extremadura’s snap election gave PP and Vox a combined 60.08% of the vote as the PSOE fell from 28 to 18 seats and lost over 100,000 votes, forcing the PP to negotiate Vox’s backing for investiture.
- On the left in Aragón, IU allied with Sumar while CHA kept its own list and Podemos fielded its own ticket for the 8 February election, locking in a split that complicates their challenge to a strengthened right.