Overview

• The 15-point framework, crafted with the OECD, proposes an independent public integrity agency, AI-driven procurement audits, annual wealth checks for senior officials, and tougher penalties for corruption.
• PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo dismissed the measures as inadequate and demanded a snap election, but Sánchez refused to call early polls.
• Far-left and regional nationalist parties have signalled they will continue to prop up Sánchez’s minority government conditional on the swift implementation of the reforms.
• The scandal stems from a police report implicating ex-transport minister José Luis Ábalos and former party secretary Santos Cerdán in kickback schemes that led to Cerdán’s pre-trial detention and Abalos’s expulsion.
• The reforms come as Spain heads into regional and European elections, putting pressure on the government’s credibility on corruption reform.