Friday was in an auditorium with Catalan businesspeople and on Sunday in front of 40,000 people at the demonstration against Pedro Sánchez in MadridIn both instances, Alberto Núñez Feijóo pressured Junts and the PNV to agree to support a motion of no confidence that would trigger elections. However, despite these public appeals, the People's Party (PP) remains unmoved. They have no plans to open negotiations with Carles Puigdemont's party, nor do they intend to register the motion in Congress, which could bring the Socialist leader's time in La Moncloa to an end. The PP's second-in-command, Miguel Tellado, confirmed this Monday at a press conference in Génova that they will not make any moves and that, for the moment, their strategy is simply to criticize these parties for not having decided to oust the Spanish president despite the alleged corruption scandals. "The question [about the motion of no confidence] shouldn't be directed at us, but rather at the PNV and Junts, asking how much longer they will continue to tolerate this," Tellado said.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has narrowly escaped censure. The National Assembly narrowly rejected the motion of no confidence presented by the radical left on Thursday: the motion was voted on by 271 deputies, 18 short of the 289 needed to bring down the government. The Socialists and the right decided not to vote on it, although some rebel deputies from both parties chose to disobey their party's mandate. Shortly after, a second motion of no confidence presented by the far right was also rejected.

The second government led by Sébastien Lecornu, appointed this Sunday, has already lasted more hours than the first one – which was only in force for 14 hours –, but it could go down in history as the second shortest of the Fifth Republic if either of the two motions of no confidence presented this Monday by the National Rally (RN), the far-right party of Marine Le Pen, and by La France Insoumise (LFI), the party considered to be radical left-wing and led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, succeed. Both motions will be voted on this week, probably on Thursday, and it is not unlikely that one of the two will be approved.

What was supposed to be a friendly change of mayor in Puigcerdà has ended with an unexpected vote of no confidence. Junts (4) and Futur (4), an independent party linked to the post-convergent space, reached a government agreement in 2023 to share the mayor's office, but in June the council members informed them that they were breaking off the understanding. Faced with the rupture, ERC (5) presented a vote of no confidence that will be passed this Monday with the support of two Futur councilors, who have decided to support it to avoid paralysis in the Ceretan town. In this way, Junts loses the last regional capital in the Pyrenees it had and ERC regains a mayoralty it has not held since 2011. It will do so with Joan Manel Serra at the helm.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo still hasn't fully grasped how politics works in Madrid. He hasn't yet grasped that what gives Pedro Sánchez oxygen is the configuration of two irreconcilable blocs. And that politics isn't just a matter of parliamentary arithmetic, as he wants to sell with the entire debate over the motion of censure, but encompasses other factors such as leadership, instinct, and the capacity for resilience. And it is on the issue of leadership, especially important in Madrid, where Feijóo fails.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo's ability to repeatedly stumble over the same stone, which is none other than parliamentary arithmetic, is truly astonishing. Just when the PSOE was at its worst, in turmoil over the imprisonment of its until recently number three, Santos Cerdán, Feijóo decided to launch a maneuver to gauge whether any of Pedro Sánchez's partner parties would support him in a motion of no confidence.

Santos Cerdán's imprisonment has led Alberto Núñez Feijóo to make an attempt to make a move that was quickly thwarted. After having categorically ruled out for weeks presenting a motion of censure despite pressure from Vox, the PP leader announced this Tuesday morning in a message to X that he had asked Miguel Tellado, the PP spokesperson in Congress, to explore the possibility of obtaining the four votes he is missing among Pedro's parliamentary allies. A cordon sanitaire is being applied. "Let them say if their support for the PSOE remains intact," Feijóo demanded. The movement, framed within the strategy deployed by the PP to wear down not only the Socialists but also the rest of the plurinational majority by accusing them of complicity in corruption, has backfired. Isabel Díaz Ayuso has refuted him, Junts has put him on the ropes with an uncomfortable proposal for him – to meet with Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo – and widened the gap with the PNV.

The Spanish government won't fall for the time being, even though Vice President Yolanda Díaz refused to go to Congress today to sit next to Sánchez, and the PP and Vox said all kinds of things to the Spanish president. It all means: "You look like a skinned lamb, but you're the leader of the pack."

To counterattack, as Pedro Sánchez did yesterday, you will be sure that nothing but the splash will come outI think they've agreed not to harm Ábalos, Cerdán, and Koldo, because the three would have more to lose than to gain. However, today Madrid newspapers are reporting that the Civil Guard is preparing a report investigating the Speaker of Congress, Francina Armengol, who met at least once with the alleged commission.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has revived the scarecrow of the motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez without taking the step of presenting it. As he has done at other times during the legislature, the PP leader has publicly appealed to the PSOE's parliamentary partners to help him secure the majority he lacks in Congress for the initiative to prosper. The latest serial about alleged socialist corruption, with Leire Díez's audio recordings about the UCO, has been the argument used this time to pressure the allies of the Spanish government, which he warned would be "complicit" if they did not act against the head of the executive. "Seven years ago, Mr. Sánchez's current partners said they supported a motion of censure to combat corruption. If they were consistent, they should do the same now without a doubt," Feijóo said in an urgent statement called this Thursday due to the latest information about the alleged plot by

In Setcases, musical chairs is not just a game for children, but for politicians. In eight years, there have been three motions of no confidence to remove the mayor, and all three, paradoxically, have been promoted by councilors from the same party as the mayor. This Monday, the third was consummated. Three of the five councilors from a list linked to ERC, the only party in the council, have decided to oust the mayor due to "disagreements" and "lack of communication and transparency" when making decisions.

The Valencian socialists have been hitting a wall for some time when they demand the resignation of Carlos Mazón. Faced with the constant refusal of the head of the Consell, this Friday the PSPV goes on the attack and is already pointing to a possible motion of censure with an uncertain outcome (they would need the support of Vox, in addition to that of Compromís). What does it depend on? On Alberto Núñez Feijóo. "If Feijóo does not make a move in the next few hours, the PSPV will," said the leader of the party in the Valencian Community, Diana Morant. Consulted by the ARA, sources from the state PP assure that "there are no changes" in their position on Mazón, which until now was to support him and divert responsibilities to the executive of Pedro Sánchez.

Deep maneuvering between the PSOE and Ciudadanos in Murcia with important implications at state level. The two parties have filed a motion of censure against the PP to unseat it from the presidency of the autonomous community, where it is part of a coalition government with Ciudadanos and the external support of Vox. The motion, however, is not limited only to the Regional Assembly, but also to the City Council of Murcia. The aim that the current spokesperson of the executive and regional coordinator of Ciudadanos, Ana Martínez Vidal, become the new president to replace the PP's Fernando López Miras. In turn, it also seeks to end the government of Murcia's mayor, José Ballesta, also supported by Ciudadanos, and that the current deputy mayor, Mario Gomez, become the new mayor.