Ábalos and Koldo's last resort: to pressure the Supreme Court to suspend their 24 and 19 year prison sentences and to open the possibility of appeal to the Constitutional Court.

Former Spanish Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García are pursuing a final legal maneuver before the Supreme Court to suspend their respective prison sentences of 24 and 19 years. This procedural step is intended to exhaust ordinary judicial remedies and open the path to seeking constitutional protection before Spain's Constitutional Court.

Separately, in an unrelated regional development, the government of Panama announced an allocation of at least 61 million dollars to repair 67 hospital facilities damaged by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the country.