Overnight polls kept PSOE and Sumar at lows with Vox at a record at PP's expense, framing the 29-N precampaign.
Morning coverage moved to the Fiesta Nacional parade in Madrid, presided by the Kings and presented as election-marked and shadowed by Ceuta and the coming royal visit. Editors centered on insults and booing greeting Sánchez's arrival, Abascal's absence from the royal reception and his trip to Ceuta, and Princess Leonor's recovery of the Toisón.
Parallel left negotiations advanced, with ERC and Podemos confirming a Catalonia pact around a Rufián-Montero tandem while the Frente Amplio held to Colau in Madrid.
By afternoon the Supreme Court rejected the government's appeal and kept 163,000 naturalized under the grandchildren's law off the 29-N census, citing census purity, with Moncloa weighing a Constitutional Court challenge.