José Luis Ábalos

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José Luis Ábalos Meco (born 9 December 1959) is a Spanish politician who served as Minister of Development (of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda since 2020) from 2018 to 2021, in the cabinets chaired by Pedro Sánchez. He also served as member of the Congress of Deputies from 2009 to 2026. A long-time member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Ábalos was expelled from the party in 2024 for his involvement in a corruption scandal (the Koldo case) during his time as minister. He was also the Secretary of Organization of his party from 2017 to 2021. On 27 November 2025, he entered prison to serve the preventive detention ordered by the Supreme Court of Spain in a ruling issued in the context of the criminal investigations to which he is subject.. The preventive detention was converted into a definite prision term to be served form 24 years and 9 months by the Supreme Court of Spain on June 22 2026. He is the first serving congressman to be incarcerated since the Spanish transition...

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