Overview

• Pedro Sánchez gathered PSOE deputies, senators and MEPs, voiced admiration for those who disrupted La Vuelta’s final stage, and told the party to stay active while laying out priorities on housing, a higher minimum wage, pensions and laws on gender violence and prostitution.
• Sánchez intensified his confrontation with Madrid’s Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accusing her government of channeling public funds to private providers such as Quirón and citing the income gains of Alberto González Amador.
• Alberto Núñez Feijóo convened the PP’s Junta Directiva Nacional to prepare for a political change, finalize his economic leadership team and roll out proposals in Congress as part of a governing alternative.
• Even as he escalated attacks on the government, Feijóo urged his party to avoid extremes and preserve the political center, a message that some PP sectors viewed as contradictory given recent hardening of tone.
• Junts warned it could break with the PSC and increase pressure on Sánchez if its demands are not backed in Catalonia’s upcoming general policy debate, raising the risk of a rough autumn in parliament.