Spain's governing Socialist Party (PSOE) has surged to 36.4% in voting intention, a gain of 4.6 percentage points from March, according to the April survey published by the CIS (Spain's state polling body). The main opposition centre-right People's Party (PP) slipped slightly to 23.5%, leaving the Socialists with a lead of nearly 13 points. The poll was conducted in early April, a period that coincided with the opening of two major corruption trials — one involving alleged misuse of police resources to protect the PP, and another examining a pandemic-era procurement scandal linked to a former senior Socialist minister.