Health Minister Mónica García sent a formal request on Tuesday to the regions governed by the People's Party (PP), demanding that they submit, within a maximum of one month, the data from their early detection programs for breast, colon, and cervical cancer for the last five years, which she requested following the errors detected in Andalusia and which they have repeatedly refused to provide. García added that if they do not have all the requested indicators from the last five years, the regional governments will be obligated to submit at least the results they have available so far or those they currently use in evaluating regional screening programs. Meanwhile, in several regions governed by the People's Party (PP), such as Madrid and Andalusia, the argument is that the request does not comply with current regulations and that the data-sharing tool is not yet operational.

Thousands of people have supported the victims of the scandal this Sunday. Delay in mammograms in Andalusia at a rally in Seville organized by the Amama association, which represents several women with breast cancer. The protest filled the square where the Andalusian presidential headquarters are located and served as a platform not only to denounce the management and response of Juanma Moreno Bonilla's Popular Party government in this case—which affects at least 1,300 women, according to data acknowledged so far by the regional government—but also to demand "quality public healthcare."

The communication errors and delays in breast cancer screening in Andalusia are a major scandal of administrative mismanagement and a human tragedy for many families. Every day, more women are affected by this medical disaster: many received a delayed diagnosis and treatment after not being informed that the early detection program was inconclusive, meaning that the result they had received could be wrong. It truly is enormous. And yet, from the outset, the Andalusian Ministry of Health minimized the problem. Finally, faced with the evidence of a scandal that has been growing in number of affected people, the Andalusian government of Moreno Bonilla admitted this botched job with potentially terrible consequences and ended up estimating the number of potential victims at 2,000. At the current rate, it's possible that there will be more. Lawyers are overwhelmed: dozens of new cases arrive every day.

The mammogram scandal is the biggest political crisis Juanma Moreno Bonilla has had to face since becoming president of Andalusia in 2019, and it has awakened the ghost of the Dana and Carlos Mazón in the PP. Why? Because this case affects the heart of Moreno Bonilla's political narrative, based on excellence in management. baron An Andalusian does not base his political capital on cultural wars and polarization, like Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but on occupying the political center and presiding over an executive with technocratic overtones. If his management fails, the story falls apart.