Spain registers a historic high in hate crimes and incidents, which increased by 23.6% in 2025. In total, up to 2,417 criminal offenses and hate incidents have been recorded, 934 of which are for racism or xenophobia, representing an increase of 16.1% compared to the previous year. The other crimes investigated by the State Security Forces and Corps that have grown in the last year are linked to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and dysphobia – the fear, emotional rejection, or discrimination towards people with functional diversity or disability. This is stated in the "Report on the Evolution of Hate Crimes and Incidents in Spain 2025", released by the Ministry of the Interior this Wednesday. Report on the Evolution of Hate Crimes and Incidents in Spain2025, which has been disseminated by the Ministry of the Interior this Wednesday.

The audit of the PSOE's accounts by two university professors –whose result was made public earlier this weekThis has generated a second round of scrutiny: the profile of those tasked, at the party's own request, with reviewing its expenses. Both the political and media right have questioned the credibility of the forensic report that rules out the existence of illegal financing within the party. One of the arguments used to cast doubt on the auditors' main conclusion is their ideological alignment with the Spanish government and the fact that one of them, César Martínez Sánchez, has a clear connection to it. He was an advisor to Pedro Sánchez at the Moncloa Palace and to Manuela Carmena at the Madrid City Council.