Overview
- Spain's prime minister appeared before the Senate inquiry as the session opened at 9:00 a.m. in Madrid and was expected to run for several hours.
- The People's Party, which controls the upper chamber, is using the hearing to argue he knew of wrongdoing or sought to cover it up, with party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo publicly challenging his credibility.
- The case centers on Koldo García Izaguirre, arrested in February 2024 and suspected of enabling about €53 million in mask contracts during March–June 2020 that generated illegal commissions.
- Judicial findings have reached former minister José Luis Ábalos, who was expelled from the Socialist Party, and a police report later implicated his successor Santos Cerdán, now in pre-trial detention.
- Separate prosecutions are advancing against Sánchez’s wife Begoña Gómez and his brother David for influence-peddling, and Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz is due to go on trial Monday for violating judicial secrecy.