Overview
- Guardia Civil says the theft of a Correos safe in Fuente de Cantos is being investigated as common criminality after a burned box containing 124 postal votes and €14,000 was recovered.
- PP leader María Guardiola resumed messaging after a pause, calling it a theft of voting rights, demanding top officials’ explanations, and rejecting an RTVE debate invitation as others criticized her absence.
- Correos reported 124 affected postal ballots and said those voters will be able to cast new votes, while parties traded accusations as late‑campaign scandals and harassment claims dominated Extremadura’s final stretch.
- A separate local dispute persists in Madrid’s Pozuelo de Alarcón, where the town hall’s closure order for a migrant housing site went unappealed by the ministry; 178 residents remain with a municipal moratorium expiring January 17.
- In Argentina, the Chamber of Deputies rejected key Presupuesto 2026 chapters on disability and university funding derogations, prompting urgent strategy meetings, a push to reinsert them in the Senate after December 25, and a postponement of the labor reform to February, with officials warning the budget could face a veto if unchanged.