Overview

• PP and Vox secured a 20-18 majority in the Comisión Mixta to compel the Tribunal de Cuentas to review the handover of the Avenue Marceau palace to the PNV.
• The Tribunal de Cuentas will assess whether the PNV holds valid legal title and whether the government’s January transfer complied with the Democratic Memory Law.
• PP and Vox deputies highlighted the absence of documented purchase by the PNV, the building’s €17 million valuation and the prospect of rental income paid by the Instituto Cervantes as potential irregular financing.
• The PNV insists the palace was lawfully restituted as property bought for the Basque Government in exile and seized by the Gestapo, accusing opponents of historical inaccuracy and political instrumentalization.
• A 2003 Supreme Court ruling found no PNV title under the previous Memory Law, but backers argue the new law’s broader scope legitimizes overseas restitution.