Key moments
- García-Page, on Zapatero’s indictment: “It leaves me stunned”
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been indicted for money laundering in an investigation into the alleged laundering of public bailout funds amounting to 53 million euros that the government gave to the airline Plus Ultra after the pandemic. Judge José Luis Calama is investigating the whereabouts of that money, and the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit of the National Police is searching the former president’s office and three companies. This is the first time in democracy that a former Prime Minister is under investigation in a corruption case. The PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, has stated that the news is “extremely serious” as it concerns “Sánchez’s main advisor”: “The government must provide explanations now. The scheme is collapsing and the bosses of the plot are starting to fall,” he added.
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Tellado demands explanations from the government over Zapatero’s indictment: “It is extremely serious”
The PP Secretary General, Miguel Tellado, considers the indictment of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to be “extremely serious.”
“We are not only talking about the former Prime Minister, but also Sánchez’s main advisor. The government must provide explanations now. The scheme is collapsing and the bosses of the plot are starting to fall,” he said in a tweet.
García-Page, on Zapatero’s indictment: “It leaves me stunned”
The President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has commented on the indictment of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the Plus Ultra case. “It leaves me stunned,” García-Page said during an interview on Onda Cero. “Of course, my opinion of them is based on their political role. During his presidency, I disagree with many things, but I have always considered him capable of moving heaven and earth to win votes, but not economically. I do not know him in that stage. There are rumors and this, personally, leaves me stunned. I sincerely hope it can be clarified.”
ANDALUSIAN ELECTIONS
The Andalusian PSOE is searching for itself and cannot be found after more than seven years in opposition
The PSOE has been in opposition for seven years and four months in a region where it was everything for almost four decades. The results have not improved the forecasts of the polls and it is heading to extend its desert crossing for another four years with only 28 deputies, its historic low. It is a lot for a party that defines itself as “government” and is not in opposition.
During this time on the bench, it has had three secretaries general and three candidates for the presidency of the Junta (Susana Díaz, Juan Espadas, and María Jesús Montero) and has lost the last five elections held since 2022 (regional, municipal, general, European, and again regional). And, what is worse, “it has lost the distinction of being the reference party in Andalusia,” says an Andalusian leader and former socialist councilor.
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Zapatero, indicted for money laundering in the ‘Plus Ultra case’
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been indicted for money laundering in the public bailout of the airline Plus Ultra. Judge José Luis Calama, head of the instruction court number 4 of the National Court, is investigating the former socialist prime minister.
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ANDALUSIAN ELECTIONS
José Ignacio García ‘El Gafa’, Teresa Rodríguez’s heir who restored the shine to Andalusianism
Combative since his time in the scouts, self-demanding and surprisingly shy, José Ignacio García (Jerez de la Frontera, 38 years old) could be that ordinary friend who, at the slightest opportunity, talks your ear off about that social cause he fiercely believes in. “His greatest quality is that he is a normal person, not a professional politician,” explains Pablo. And that has turned out to be one of the greatest assets exploited during the Adelante Andalucía campaign.
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Andalusian elections
The hard wing of the PP revolts against moderation after the Andalusian result: “This way you don’t get there”
The oasis of Andalusian moderation will no longer be the same after the election results. For four years, the San Telmo Palace was for some in Génova the beacon that illuminated the path to La Moncloa: an idyll of transversality and pragmatism capable of absorbing the center vote and neutralizing Vox. But the loss of Juan Manuel Moreno’s absolute majority not only opens a negotiation scenario with the far right for governance in Andalusia, but also reopens the strategic debate in the PP about whether Alberto Núñez Feijóo should follow the Moreno path or the Ayuso path to reach La Moncloa. A discussion that the PP moderates now face weakened, while the hard wing asserts itself and warns that with moderation “you don’t get there.”
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ANDALUSIAN ELECTIONS
The electoral cycle consolidates the rightward shift of Spain awaiting the general elections
The cycle scheduled by the PP with four consecutive regional elections in a drip-feed leaves a worrying panorama for the Spanish left. Although all the communities involved were already PP territories, and therefore right-leaning —“you wouldn’t be making these analyses if there had been elections in Catalonia in between, these were four we didn’t have and still don’t have,” a minister privately states—, the truth is that the results have consolidated a very evident rightward shift at least in a significant part of the country, including two historic left-wing vote strongholds like Andalusia and Extremadura.
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Good morning. We start the narration of the political news this Tuesday, in which the Council of Ministers will approve the first step to launch the investment instrument España Crece.
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