Overview
- Following Extremadura’s vote, PP won 29 seats as PSOE fell to 18 and PP plus Vox reached 60.08% of the vote share.
- Alberto Núñez Feijóo used his year-end briefing to argue the legislature is “finished” and to urge Pedro Sánchez to call early elections.
- The Government told El País it will likely secure only around a dozen additional laws by summer due to complex arithmetic in Congress and tensions with Junts.
- Government spokesperson Elma Saiz said there are many social measures the Cabinet can enact without parliamentary validation and reaffirmed plans to present a 2026 budget.
- Peru’s JEE Lima Centro 1 ruled 18 presidential slates inadmissible and gave parties two days to correct paperwork, as Carlos Jaico also filed a tacha seeking to annul Fuerza Popular’s national Senate list.