Leire Diez, investigated in a Madrid court for bribery and influence peddling, has been the PP's choice to resume, after the summer recess, the crusade in the Senate against the PSOE for its alleged corruption cases. The former Socialist militant appeared before the commission of inquiry into the Koldo case and, despite his legal status, did not remain silent and refuted the accusations from the right and the far right, insisting on the narrative he has deployed since the scandal broke. "I'm not a plumber, I'm a journalist," he asserted, reiterating that he is working on the publication of a book on "the malfunctioning of institutions," hence the collection of audio recordings that have been released in which he allegedly interferes in judicial proceedings. Díez claimed that the investigation he has conducted is not to favor the PSOE but in favor of the "rule of law," and denied that he was "well connected" within the party, thus distancing himself from both the PSOE and former party leader Santos Cerdán.

Finally, it has turned out that the alleged UCO report did exist, and that there was evidence against Santos Cerdán. This had been warned about for weeks and months by certain right-wing media outlets.The Confidential, The World, OkDiario, The Objective—until it was confirmed once the Civil Guard submitted it to the Supreme Court. The public prosecutors in the proceedings had access to it, and it was leaked to the media. Now, during all this time, how did these newspapers manage to obtain insights into the investigation? Indeed, readers, it is just as you suspect.

The PP has found in the allegedoperation against the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, which he attributes to the PSOE, his main source of attack against Pedro Sánchez. That's why, a few days before the demonstration called by Alberto Núñez Feijóo In Madrid, against the "mafia" they attribute to the Socialists, the Popular Party has expanded its offensive in the judicial sphere.

Pedro Sánchez is experiencing one of the most complicated weeks of his term. The revelation of an alleged operation against the Civil Guard, revealed by The Confidential, has placed the Spanish government in the eye of the storm, as the PP (People's Party) is directly attributing the blame to the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). It all began on Monday, with the publication of an audio recording in which Leire Díez Castro, a grassroots socialist activist, demanded from a businessman indicted in the National Court information that would bring down the economic crime department of the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO) in exchange for judicial benefits. Specifically, she was seeking dirt on Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, who is leading the investigation into cases affecting Sánchez's entourage. Also participating in this conversation was businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, who was in pretrial detention. This Thursday, the aforementioned media outlet published an audio recording from September in which, without further context, he states that Sánchez himself and the PSOE's organizational secretary, Santos Cerdán, were behind it. What are the keys to this case that have unleashed a new war between the PP and the PSOE?