Overview
- The Congress voted down the government's proposed senda de déficit on Tuesday, with PP, Vox, Junts and UPN opposing the plan and leaving the executive a statutory one‑month window to return with revised targets.
- The central government has begun procedures to declare the area hit by the Almería blaze a zona catastrófica to speed emergency aid after the July 9 fire that killed 13 people and burned roughly 7,000 hectares.
- The Fiscalía concluded there were “evident coordination and command errors” by the Xunta and Oímbra town hall in the origin of last year’s Oímbra megafire, asked for provisional dismissal of criminal charges against the contracted worker, and opened the door to civil claims against administrations.
- The Audiencia Nacional judge Santiago Pedraz has summoned two prosecutors who met with Leire Díez and PSOE president Cristina Narbona to testify about exchanged messages, a move that signals continued judicial scrutiny of political actors and communications.
- High heat alerts and forecasts of dry storms are raising wildfire risk across Valencia and other regions while the Peñarroya fire in Teruel is held as stabilized but kept under watch for re‑ignitions, a mix of pressures that complicates emergency operations and piles on political and fiscal strain.