The summary will be known imminently. Pedro Sánchez minimized the Zapatero and Leire cases this Sunday as “problems” and “setbacks” and warned: “We are going to continue until 2027 and beyond.”
The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz On May 26, 2026, he ordered an unprecedented operation against an alleged plot by the PSOE to sabotage judicial investigations that affected the party and the Government of Pedro Sanchez. Agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard spent 12 hours at the socialist federal headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid, with orders to seize accounting documentation, corporate emails and building access records.
Pedraz’s order, prior to the summary, which sees the light this Monday, accuses the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdan as the alleged leader of the structure, with Leire Diez as executive coordinator. According to the magistrate, Cerdán would have made “the party structure itself available to the criminal structure” to finance operations aimed at destabilizing judicial cases that affected the environment of the President of the Government.
The judge places the “turning point” in a meeting held in Ferraz on April 26, 2024, two days after Sánchez sent his letter to the public announcing that he was taking a few days of reflection after the accusation of his wife. Begoña Gómez.
The investigation includes at least 22 meetings between Cerdán and Díez at the PSOE headquarters, plus another 17 in unidentified locations. The order sets the payment agreed to Díez at 4,000 euros per month, paid for with party funds and camouflaged through the consulting firm of the former vice president of the Junta de Andalucía. Gaspar Zarrías and from the office of lawyer Ismael Oliver. The total payments tracked by Pedraz exceeds 170,000 euros.
Among the crimes investigated are criminal organization, bribery, revelation of secrets, induction of false testimony, document falsification, prevarication and influence peddling. In addition to Cerdán, Zarrías and Díez, the order charges the manager of the PSOE Ana Maria Fuentes -for the issuance of alleged false invoices-, to the businessman Javier Pérez Dolsetto the lawyers Jacobo Teijelo and Ismael Oliver, and to the captain of the Civil Guard Juan Sánchez Yepes.
The UCO was ordered to upload the entire content of the corporate emails of Cerdán, Fuentes and the former head of Communications Ion Antolinexamine the party’s accounting books for 2024 and 2025, and trace the building access records of 27 people, including the former commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo. Pedraz also requested documentation about the PSC campaign for the Catalan elections in May 2024.
The PSOE denied any organic involvement. “He has not ordered, protected or cooperated in any of the criminal conduct” that emerges from the order, stated the Secretary of Organization, Rebeca Torro.
Begoña Gómez questions Peinado’s timing
Another open front is that of Begoña Gómez. This Monday there is news. Her defense has questioned that the magistrate who proposed to try her, Juan Carlos Peinadohas put “cruising speed” in the case “absolutely incompatible with the guarantees of a criminal process”, as if “it were in an excessive hurry” to finish it. The lawyer and former prosecutor Antonio Camacho denounces the violation of the right of defense by appealing the order in which the judge summons Begoña Gómez and the other two investigated on June 9 to a preliminary hearing to decide whether to open an oral trial against them.
Begoña Gómez, her advisor Cristina Álvarez and the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabes They are in the final stretch of a case in which Judge Peinado, a few months away from retiring, wants them to be tried by a popular jury, and waiting for the Provincial Court of Madrid to resolve their appeals.
Pablo Iglesias revealed this Monday that Podemos deceived the PNV and Ciudadanos to get the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy came out ahead in 2018 and Pedro Sanchez became president of the Government. Eight years have passed since that moment. Iglesias has explained it in RNE mornings.
Feijóo sees “movement” among the Government partners
Alberto Núñez Feijóo assures that he is “optimistic” because he sees “some movement” among Pedro Sánchez’s government partners, whom he encourages to find “a solution in a short time.” “It seems, I want to be optimistic, that there is some movement out there,” he stated in an interview on Telecinco. The president of the PP has said that those who start talking about the need for elections “immediately” are not going to have a better ally than his party. “If those who say it are coherent and do it, we can find a solution in a short time,” he insisted, mentioning Vox, PNV, Junts, UPN and the Canarian Coalition.
The polls sink Sánchez
CIS aside, two polls this Monday give a significant fall to the PSOE and a large absolute majority to the PP-Vox sum. The one published by The Spanishfrom SocioMétrica, subtracts five seats from the PSOE and another five from Sumar and Podemos, while the PP grows by seven. The one of ABCfrom GAD3, gives PP and Vox 201 seats, well above the 176 necessary for the absolute. Of them, 141 are from the PP and 60 from Vox, which would be their best historical result.
They withdraw the crime of accepting an illegal appointment from Sánchez’s brother for having prescribed
The court also agrees not to judge the former president of the Badajoz Provincial Council Miguel Ángel Gallardo, for the hiring of the former Moncloa advisor Luis Carrero
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The court of the Badajoz Court that judges the process of hiring of David Sánchezbrother of the President of the Government, has decided to withdraw the alleged crime of accepting an illegal appointment from the case, understanding that it has already expired as a minor crime.
“Sánchez came to protect corruption”
Ester Muñozspokesperson for the PP in Congress, has assured that Pedro Sánchez will not be able to “divert the focus” of the corruption cases that affect his party and the Government. He recalled that today marks eight years since the motion of censure, which he described as a “scam” because it did not come to the Moncloa Palace to “end corruption” but to “protect it,” he assessed.
Officials, candidates and conservatory managers begin to testify in the trial for the hiring of David Sánchez in the Badajoz Provincial Council
After a first session focused on the previous questions raised by the defenses, the court begins to listen to those who participated in the process of creating and awarding the position at the core of the investigation.
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The trial examining the hiring of David Sánchez Pérez-Castejón in the Badajoz Provincial Council faces its first day today focused on the merits of the matter. After a debut characterized by the previous questions raised by the defenses, the Provincial Court plans to begin listen to the first witnesses of a cause that revolves around the creation and awarding of the position of coordinator of activities of the provincial conservatories that the brother of the President of the Government obtained in 2017.
Pedro Sanchez kept five days of reflection in April 2024 once the judge Juan Carlos Peinado determined the accusation of his wife, Begoña Gómezfor alleged crimes of influence peddling and business corruption. The President of the Government left his resignation in the air (“there is no honor that justifies the unjust suffering of the people one loves and respects the most”) and at the end of that period, he addressed the Spaniards to announce that he was continuing, but not to sit idly by: “Either we say enough is enough or this degradation of public life will determine the future, condemning us as a country.”
Message from Page to Sánchez
Emiliano García-Page He could not avoid in his speech for Castilla-La Mancha Day a reference to what is happening in his party and in the Government. He is the baron most critical of Pedro Sánchez. In fact, he has been calling for early elections for days. This Sunday, García-Page called in this time of political “crispation” for an all-out defense of the Judiciary, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Armed Forces, the Civil Guard and the National Police. He recalled that the first obligation of a public official is to “defend those institutions.”
Leire Díez turned to a Chavista minister to gather evidence against an anti-corruption prosecutor accused of having relations with a minor
Leire contacted Nervis Villalobos to speak with Miriam, a young woman who denounced prosecutor Grinda and whose marriage even reached the Constitutional Court. They also tried to bribe the prosecutor with 300,000 euros, according to a complaint he filed
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Leire Diez attempted to gather incriminating evidence against one of the most important anti-corruption prosecutors in this country, José Grinda Gonzálezwho has been working in Bolivia since the end of the year. The one baptized as a ‘plumber’ of the PSOE turned to a former high-ranking official of the Venezuelan Government, Nervis Villalobosso that a minor who had reported a sexual crime to the prosecutor could go to the socialist headquarters to report her case. Leire told the young woman that “she was preparing things against the tiparraco” (in reference to Grinda), a young woman who even met with Santos Cerdanformer Secretary of Organization.
