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The orbital railway line had been kept in a drawer of the Departament de Territori for 15 years. Manel Nadal, the Mobility Secretary who left the file there when the tripartite ended, is the same person who revived the project a decade and a half later. Why invent something new when you have that project and the transversal railway axis?, the socialists must have thought, who made these two lines the main bets of the 2025-2050 infrastructure plan presented last year with the aim of breaking the radial railway scheme of Catalonia, in which everything passes through Barcelona, both in Rodalies and high speed.

The race in Junts for the mayoral candidate poster in Barcelona added a chapter this Monday that could be decisive in reaching an outcome with just over a year left until the municipal elections on May 23, 2027. Josep Rius, councilor of the post-convergent municipal group, as well as deputy and vice president of the party, announced that under the “current circumstances” he cannot run as a candidate. He had not officially presented himself, but all the predictions placed him as the favorite of the leadership of the formation led by Carles Puigdemont. On the other side of the scale is Jordi Martí, president of the municipal group, who officially announced his candidacy on Thursday although Junts had laid out various red carpets for him to clear the way for his benchmate.

Beyond laws, the declaration of human rights, ordinances, the struggle of entities, and even beyond good intentions and common sense, Barcelona lacked a structural element, an active public policy to fight for the equality of all people. That is why this Monday the first Anti-Racist Plan 2026-2036 was presented in the Saló de Cent of the City Council, a cross-cutting commitment worked on with experts that involves the entire municipal machinery in areas such as housing, education, participation, health, and coexistence.

The spokesperson for the PSOE in the Madrid Assembly, Mar Espinar, has demanded this Monday that President Isabel Díaz Ayuso publish the expenses of her institutional trip to Mexico on the transparency portal.

A minor stabbed a man in the early hours of this Sunday, on Pau Street, next to the Fòrum beach in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelonès Nord). The events occurred around six in the morning and ended with the arrest of the attacker thanks to the intervention of the security guards of an establishment in the area, who provided the description.

The National Police have reported that last night a robbery occurred using the ram-raiding method at an electronics and technology store located in the Parque Oeste shopping park in Alcorcón, from where they then started a police chase and pursuit until escaping via the M-40.

Madrid doctors and medical staff return to the national strike called from today Monday 18 to Friday 22 May against the proposed reform of the Framework Statute for statutory personnel of the Ministry of Health’s health system.

Seven weeks of strike. The workers of the municipal nursery schools of Madrid, on strike since last April 7, gathered again this Monday in the Plaza de la Villa to demand wage improvements and to protest against the extensions of the bidding contracts for these centers, coinciding with the meeting of the Commission on Social Policies, Family, and Equality in the Cardenal Cisneros building.

There was a time, not so long ago, when becoming independent was a natural part of the transition to adulthood. With more or less difficulties, a stable job and a reasonable salary allowed paying rent or facing a mortgage. Today that idea has collapsed. In the big…

Rocío Cortés, former mayor of Requena, a town flooded by the October 29 flood in which there were no victims, has stated in court that “in Requena there were no deaths or injuries because the population was warned.”