Politics

• Reactions of the main parties to Rajoy’s decision of running for prime minister only if he has enough support
• Rajoy will call Sánchez and Rivera today
•  Ciudadanos announce they won’t support Rajoy, but offers to mediate between PP and PSOE
• The Government demands that the Constitutional Court acts against the Catalan Parliament’s Chairwoma, Carme Forcadell
• The Constitutional Court finds that the ‘judicial fees’ put in place by Gallardon in 2012 are unconstitutional

Economy

• Spanish Q2 GDP shows 0,7% growth

Corruption

• Five former ministers from Aznar’s government to declare as witnesses in the first big Gürtel case trial

Francoism

• Former High Court judge Baltasar Garzon has filed an administrative contentious case to remove the remains of dictators Francisco Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera from the Valle de los Caidos monument

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