Carlos Cuerpo, on his first official day as transport minister after Óscar Puente’s resignation, convened an urgent meeting with Adif’s leadership to examine the rail network’s critical condition, operational problems, and pending investments. The report says Adif president Pedro Marco de la Peña formally resigned after the review. The departure is presented as the start of a restructuring intended to restore confidence in Spain’s rail system and accelerate a new operational plan.

A collective agreement for Marca employees, signed in July by Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva and CCOO and subsequently published in Spain's official gazette, sets working conditions through June 30, 2028. It establishes 1,620 annual working hours, salary scales and supplements, extra payments, and a special night-work allowance, while suspending variable pay for 2026 and 2027. It also specifies weekly rest arrangements, compensation for working public holidays, vacation entitlements, and the possibility of up to one remote-work day per week for certain editorial roles. The agreement follows months of labor unrest and demands for salary increases, after workers said their pay had gone 15 years without a general update.

Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the Spanish Legion’s Álvarez de Sotomayor Base in Viator on 5 November and praised the brigade as an example and a source of pride. She awarded Colonel Francisco Javier Gómez the Cross of Naval Merit with White Distinction for his work caring for wounded personnel and their families, and met with relatives of deceased and injured service members. The visit included a tactical demonstration of the new VCR 8x8 Dragón vehicles. The report also describes the Legion’s combat and support capabilities and its leadership of NATO’s multinational battalion deployment in Slovakia, which includes 667 personnel.

Spain’s Armed Forces had more than 120,000 personnel at the end of 2025, and 37,296 used at least one work-life-balance measure that year. In a report to the Armed Forces Observatory, the Army, Navy and Air and Space Force said that leave, flexible hours and reduced schedules can leave units short-staffed, disrupt exercises and training, increase burdens on colleagues, and complicate operational readiness. The Army called for a comprehensive review, including staffing increases, incentives for personnel with full availability, clearer rules for critical duties and ongoing impact assessments. The Air and Space Force also urged planners to account for these measures in unit staffing and service rosters; the Navy reported growing unavailability affecting operational units. By contrast, the Military Emergency Unit, Defence Staff and Defense Ministry personnel directorate assessed the policies positively, with the UME saying they had not impaired its operations.

Investigators from the Civil Guard’s Toledo Judicial Police unit are examining metadata and authorship fields in leaked recordings related to the aftermath of the Urda rail disaster. The digital traces reportedly point toward Spain’s Secretariat of State for Communication, while Secretary of State Lydia del Canto was photographed and reportedly seen in Adif’s Atocha control room when the recordings were requested for download. Investigators are checking for edits and selective distribution of the files, amid proceedings over a suspected disclosure of secrets. The account says a judge has yet to decide whether to open a separate investigation into the devices involved.

Spain’s Ministry of Defence has applied a 35-hour workweek to the Armed Forces after a change that had already reduced the general civil-service week from 37.5 hours. During consultations, the Army warned that the reduction would cut time available for unit operations and requested additional funding to preserve training objectives; the Air and Space Force estimated that it would remove 109.5 working hours per person annually, or 2.3 million hours across its roughly 21,000 personnel—equivalent to about 1,500 full-time staff. Defence rejected the requests for additional funding and the Air Force’s staffing-equivalent concern as outside the scope of the order. Military associations also raised issues including scheduling, compensation, digital disconnection and timekeeping, but several proposals were excluded from the measure’s remit. No public submissions were received during the consultation period.

The article recounts the military and political career of Leopoldo O’Donnell, from his early entry into the Spanish Army and service in the Carlist Wars to his leadership of Spain’s 1860 campaign against Morocco. After an attack near Ceuta, O’Donnell commanded a force of about 35,000 troops in an advance toward Tetuán. Spanish victories at Castillejos, Tetuán, and Wad-Ras led to peace negotiations and the Treaty of Wad-Ras, and O’Donnell received the title Duke of Tetuán. He later withdrew from public life and died in France on November 5, 1867; his remains are in Madrid.

RTVE’s preliminary proposal for election debates leaves Podemos candidate Irene Montero out of a four-way debate scheduled for November 26, featuring Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Santiago Abascal, and Frente Amplio. Podemos wants the debate expanded to five participants or its speaking time shared with Frente Amplio, citing its 2023 coalition agreement, its 2024 European election result, and its departure from Sumar’s parliamentary group. The Central Electoral Board’s current filing timetable concerns free campaign advertising and does not itself establish a route to appeal the debate lineup; participation claims must be assessed under rules governing election coverage. RTVE says its proposal follows pluralism, equality, proportionality, and neutrality criteria, and envisages compensatory interview time for some smaller parties. The lineup and dates remain subject to negotiations and possible electoral decisions, so Montero’s exclusion is not final.

Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the Álvarez de Sotomayor Base in Viator on November 5, 2026, where she awarded military doctor Colonel Francisco Javier Gómez the White Distinction of the Naval Merit Cross for his work caring for wounded personnel and their families. The visit included a tactical demonstration of the new 8x8 Dragón vehicles, for which BRILEG is training crews and adapting its facilities. The brigade also has 667 personnel deployed in Slovakia under NATO auspices, drawn from its command, combat, artillery, engineer, cavalry, logistics, and other supporting units.

The Spanish Army held its annual tribute to soldiers who died for Spain on November 3, 2026, at the Palacio Buenavista, home of Army Headquarters in Madrid. Lieutenant General Antonio Jesús Cabrerizo, the Army’s second-in-command, presided and reviewed the formation. The 1st King's Immemorial Infantry Regiment organized the ceremony, attended by commissions from units based at the headquarters.