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Councilor Enma López has announced she will run in the PSOE primaries to be the candidate for Madrid mayor and has resigned from her position on the federal executive.

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Councillor Enma López has announced her intention to stand in the PSOE primaries to lead the party's municipal ticket in Madrid. She did so in an interview published Thursday in El País.

Following his April primaries win, Álvaro Sánchez Cotrina, 39-year-old from Cáceres—the first secretary general from that province—has been proclaimed PSOE Extremadura's new leader at an extraordinary congress. He included all primary challengers in his team, criticized the PP-Vox government deal, and predicted its collapse within a year.

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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero backed socialist candidate María Jesús Montero at the first campaign rally in Cártama, Málaga, on May 1. They called to concentrate the left-wing vote on the PSOE for the May 17 regional elections and defended progressive policies. Sánchez demanded Netanyahu release a Spanish citizen detained on a flotilla to Gaza.

In a session of the Koldo masks case trial at Spain's Supreme Court, former PSOE manager Mariano Moreno Pavón denied distributing high-denomination 500-euro bills ('txistorras') or unmonitored cash to José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García from the party's Ferraz cash box. García's lawyer showed undated expense sheets, but the court curbed hypotheticals. Other witnesses, including Celia Rodríguez, Pedro Saura, and Carlos Moreno, clarified reimbursements and denied irregularities.

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Francisca Paqui Muñoz, wife of former PSOE Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán, appeared before a Senate commission investigating the Koldo case but invoked her right not to testify due to her husband's investigation and requested to leave for health reasons, which was denied. For nearly two hours, she remained absorbed in her mobile phone as opposition senators questioned her links to Servinabar company and expenses it covered. The commission president reproached her discourtesy at the end.