{
  "id": 3421146,
  "title": "El pasado de corrupción del PP de Madrid aflora a menos de un año de las próximas elecciones autonómicas",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/el-pasado-de-corrupcion-del-pp-de-madrid-aflora-a-menos-de-un-ano-de",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-26T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2026-08-26/el-pasado-de-corrupcion-del-pp-de-madrid-aflora-a-menos-de-un-ano-de-las-proximas-elecciones-autonomicas.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "The corruption past of the Madrid PP (Partido Popular) resurfaces less than a year before the upcoming autonomous elections, according to wire material. Francisco Granados, a former influential councilor to Esperanza Aguirre in the Madrid Community Government and regional PP secretary general, waited in line discreetly in June at a cash machine in the underground second floor of the National Court. His objective was to buy a coffee for 55 cents. The powerful and corrupt former mayor was wasting time during a break from one of the sessions of the major trial he faced for the Púnica case, which ended with his condemnation to two and a half years in prison in July. The impact of this sentence, which came more than a decade after he left public life, had little traction in the current political debate of the region. However, it is the first drop of a storm that will rise after the summer with new oral hearings on corruption plots that will now be presented against the former PP leader Ignacio González.",
  "summary": "La Audiencia Nacional inaugura una batería de juicios a Francisco Granados e Ignacio González, hombres de confianza de Aguirre, y otros exconsejeros populares",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}