Pedro Sánchez’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Chinainternational pressure on Iran and the United States and the new statements in the mask case mark the news. This is how Carlos Alsina summarizes the main issues of the day.
Sánchez asks China for more international involvement
The first thing is what is happening right now in Chinawhere a few minutes pass at one in the afternoon. Xi Jinping now offers a banquet to the Spanish president after meeting with him for an hour in which Pedro Sanchezwithout a doubt, he will have asked you in person what he asked you yesterday before the press: to get more involved in ending the wars in Ukraine and Iran and to defend international law.
Request to which Xi has responded, who has told Sánchez that both are in the right side of history against what he considers the law of the jungle. He has alluded to the common position of both countries in the Iran conflict and in the defense of an international law that, he says, has been seriously undermined.
In half an hour, although it will be delayed, the usual press conference that Sánchez does give on his visits abroad is scheduled where, in addition to telling the response that Xi has given him, he will be able to explain how he and his wife have lived. Begoña Gómez the closure of the investigation that affects her and that leaves her one step away from prosecution accused of embezzlement, business corruption, influence peddling and misappropriation.
The judge Hairstylein a document dated last Friday before the official trip but known yesterday, maintains that Begoña Gómez would have taken advantage of her husband’s position to maintain exceptional dialogue to create a professorship with the probability of being economically exploited later. The judge speaks of a possible hidden retribution for future private or commercial advantages through public awards and points out that they would be practices typical of absolutist regimes.
Pressure on Iran and new international tensions
The Prime Minister of Pakistan is telling, Sharifwhich is making great efforts to get Iran and the United States to overcome their respective red lines and resume negotiations. donald trump He boasts again that it is Iran who is calling him to reach an agreement and insists that he will not accept anything that would allow the regime to have nuclear weapons.
He US blockade of Hormuz It is theoretically already underway. What Trump is saying is that he is going to use with ships the technique that he already used in the Caribbean with the alleged drug traffickers who left Venezuela on barges.
Trump has also opened a new front against Pope Leo XIVwho had asked to end all wars. He accuses him of being weak and liberal and of interfering in state affairs. The Pope has responded by stating that he is not afraid ofwhich has provoked an international reaction of support, especially in Italy, to which different leaders have joined, including Sánchez and even Iran.
Key statements in the mask case trial
This afternoon a new session of the trial of the mask case is being held with more institutional witnesses. The highlight of yesterday was the statement of Patricia Urizex-wife of Koldowho has renounced practically everything. He has denied the messages in which he spoke of ‘lettuces’ and ‘chistorras’having received money from Aldama and that the cash was the product of the plot, ensuring that she had saved it. He has also questioned previous versions about the internal functioning of the PSOE.
However, he has acknowledged that he went to collect envelopes with cash and that he then managed them, in addition to admitting that he was in charge of buying gifts for the couples. abalosshowing repentance for it.
