The president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, called early elections because he failed to reach an agreement with Vox to pass the budget. "We must listen to the voice of the people of Aragon," he said in December when he announced the elections. However, the move backfired: although his party won the election, it lost two seats (from 28 to 26), and the far-right Vox party surged from 7 to 14 seats, doubling its results. Thus, far from reducing his dependence on the far-right, Azcón is now at their mercy: if he wants to be invested as president, he will have to reach an agreement with Santiago Abascal's party, which has thrown itself into this election campaign, as it already did in Extremadura. In his assessment on election night, Azcón tried to sidestep the negotiations that await him if he wants to retain the presidency: "The truth tonight is that we have won [...]. It is true that we have lost two seats, but no other party has had the results of the PP." "Only we can form a government for the next four years," he added.

Aragon goes to the polls this Sunday for the first time in early elections, not coinciding with other elections, but there is very little doubt about the outcome. The conservative majority (PP+Vox+PAR), which currently holds 36 of the 67 seats, is expected to rise above 40, in line with the conservative wave sweeping Spain, but which, as was already evident in Extremadura, primarily benefits the far right. There is also no doubt that the PP will be the leading party and that, therefore, Jorge Azcón is the most likely candidate to be re-elected president. However, in the final days of the campaign, Azcón has appeared tense and agitated, particularly raising his voice against Vox. Why? Because, like María Guardiola before him, he called early elections to overcome Vox's obstruction of the budget, and now everything suggests that he will be even more hamstrung by Santiago Abascal's party. In short, a move designed to strengthen the PP may end up strengthening Vox and complicating life for the Aragonese president.

The defense made by the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, on Sunday in The CountryThe assertion of the "innocence" of the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has infuriated the right wing, which considers it a way to "pressure" the Supreme Court. According to Moncloa Palace, nothing could be further from the truth. This Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Spanish government and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, reaffirmed that "there is no evidence" to convict the Attorney General, basing her statement on the testimony of various witnesses who appeared before the Supreme Court. Last week, a journalist fromEldiario.es He already exonerated him, categorically asserting that García Ortiz was "innocent" and that he was not the source who provided the leaked email.Two other journalists corroborated this version on the fourth day of the trial. Miguel Ángel Campos, a journalist with Cadena SER, who published the contents of the February 2, 2024, message containing confidential information about Isabel Díaz Ayuso's boyfriend on the night of the leak, also exonerated the Attorney General. Campos explained that although he called him that night, he did not speak with him. García Ortiz did not answer the phone, did not return the call, and they did not exchange messages. In fact, the SER journalist asserted that he had access to the email hours before the Attorney General. While investigators place the time when García Ortiz obtained the message at 9:59 p.m. on March 13, 2024, Campos testified that he consulted it early that afternoon. He did so from his source's computer screen—which only allowed him to take notes and did not forward or print the email—located in an office on the "third floor." This location puts the spotlight on the Madrid Regional Prosecutor's Office. Both the defense for the Attorney General and the prosecution have insisted on questioning the case in that physical space throughout the trial. The Chief Prosecutor of Madrid, Almudena Lastra—who in her testimony pointed the finger at García Ortiz—and the head of press for the Madrid Prosecutor's Office, Íñigo Corral, both witnesses in the first sessions of the trial, work on the third floor of the Madrid High Court building.

There are more explicit ministers, such as the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who, through X, accuses the Supreme Court of being "the real opposition" in the Spanish government. And there are others, perhaps more subtle, but who fundamentally believe the same thing. "It is evident that some judges do things that are difficult to understand," asserted the spokesperson for the Moncloa, Pilar Alegría, in the press conference following the cabinet meeting, despite expressing "the utmost confidence in justice and in the vast majority of judges and prosecutors in the country." This is how the spokesperson for the Spanish government targeted Ángel Hurtado, the investigating judge of the Supreme Court who has been prosecuted by the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, for alleged disclosure of secrets.

The Winter Olympics became a hot potato for Pere Aragonès's government, which Salvador Illa's administration is now willing to rescue. The president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) expressed his "complete agreement" with the proposal made this past weekend by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and leader of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) in Aragon, Pilar Alegría, to revive the joint bid to host the Winter Olympics. Isla's willingness to revive the project, which the previous administration ultimately rejected, has already reactivated the opposition of the Stop Olympics platform, which has warned that it will not stand idly by if this commitment materializes.