Overview

• The BOE-published Royal Decree is now in force, defining each autonomous community’s ordinary capacity and enabling an extraordinary contingency when occupancy triples that figure.
• Ceuta formally requested contingency status and reports about 520 minors for 27 ordinary places, while the Canary Islands and Melilla have moved to do the same with more than 5,000 and about 175 minors respectively against much smaller capacities.
• The Ministry of Youth and Childhood must validate the requests, and the government says transfers from the saturated enclaves will start this week and be phased over a year.
• Most PP-governed regions, and Castilla-La Mancha, have filed or announced appeals to the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, as ministers warn the Fiscalía and security forces could be used to enforce compliance.
• The allocation formula assigns the largest ordinary capacities to Andalucía (2,827), Cataluña (2,650) and Madrid (2,325), with Catalonia and the Basque Country not slated to receive reallocated minors, and Baleares exploring a contingency bid to avoid taking the 49 assigned.