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The former socialist leader has invoked his right not to testify about "concrete facts," but he is answering questions about the "political context." For example, he has said that audios are manipulated. 

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Santos Cerdán, former PSOE Secretary of Organization and judicially investigated, will attend the Senate Committee of Inquiry today: he has the right to answer questions or not.

After several days without appearing, the President of the Spanish Government will be in Extremadura today to support the socialist candidate, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, whose coalition partner Sumar and other investiture partners, such as the PNV, have called into question governance and increased pressure on Sanchez.

According to a report by the Civil Guard, in order to speed up the award of a contract of 113 million euros, the company paid him commissions.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has requested the judge to release former PSOE militant Leire Díez, former President of the State Industrial Participation Society (SEPI) Vicente Fernández and Guipuzcoana businessman Antxon Alonso on precautionary measures.

Judge Antonio Piña of the National High Court will question former socialist militant Leire Díez, former SEPI president Vicente Fernández and Antxon Alonso on Saturday.

Specifically, the Civil Guards have requested documentation on  from the contracts and grants , as part of the investigation into the network linked to Leire Diez. Preversal, embezzlement of public funds and membership of a criminal organization .

EH Bildu's spokesman in the Basque Parliament has stressed that in his coalition "tolerance for political corruption is zero." According to Kortajarena, "EH Bildu is one of the few parties, if not the only one, that has no cases of political corruption."

The UCO  Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard is conducting searches in Madrid, Seville and Zaragoza, including the headquarters of the company Forestalia in Zaragoza.

The former socialist minister shall receive no financial compensation from the courts.

Diez appears as an investigator for alleged trafficking in influence and bribery in a case led by the head of Madrid Examining Court No. 9.

The councilors of the abertzale coalition have explained that during this legislature some of the practices of the mayor and his government team "are outside the law and may be criminal." EH Bildu has focused on two behaviors he has described as "particularly serious."

Santos Cerdán lives in Milagro, his hometown, since he left Soto del Real prison on November 19.  Today he went for the first time to the Tafalla Court of First Instance to comply with the fortnightly appearance ordered by Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente after his release.

The prime minister has argued the "national interest" in the midst of the Israeli political crisis and has received the support of his ministers while the country remains polarized by the judicial process.

The former ministerial adviser tells the magistrate that he has no information to answer. Judge Leopoldo Puente calls to testify on the latest report by the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO) on contracts for the purchase of masks and antigen tests or PCR tests. 

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The Government will be left with one less Member, since Ábalos has tended to vote in line with the PSOE, and given that Junts has announced his vote against all the Government's proposals, things will become a little more difficult for the Government in Congress.

Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente has decided to temporarily send former Minister José Luis Ábalos and his former adviser Koldo García to prison without bail for alleged irregularities in the sale of masks by the Ministry of Transport during the pandemic. 

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