Overview

• The PSOE opened an investigative file against Leire Díez on May 28 without imposing precautionary measures, prompting criticism that the party acted too slowly to discipline its militant.
• Antonio Maíllo of IU said the PSOE should have suspended Díez’s membership immediately and blamed Ferraz’s response for deepening the reputational damage.
• Opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has labeled the government a “mafia” and plans a Madrid protest on June 8 calling for Prime Minister Sánchez’s resignation.
• Madrid’s president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has accused the national government of institutional disloyalty as tensions rise before the June 6 Conference of Presidents.
• Madrid’s fiscal chief has asked the Supreme Court to include all correspondence between Alberto González Amador’s lawyers and the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the ongoing probe.