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The non-appointment of Mónica Oltra as Compromís’s candidate for the Mayor of València is generating tension within the coalition. The fact that a first major pre-campaign event has been organized without her further fuels doubts. Compromís will hold events on May 22 and 23 in 19 towns of the Valencian Community to kick off the 2027 municipal campaign. In the València event, which will be held on Saturday at the Malva-Rosa promenade, the presence of the virtual candidate for Mayor is not planned, as this newspaper reported yesterday.

La diputada Glòria Freixa, secretaria primera de la Mesa del Parlament, is considering joining the Junts primaries to lead the Barcelona list for next year’s municipal elections. In the coming days, she will make a decision and could be the fourth contender if the other three who have publicly expressed their willingness to participate in the process at some point are confirmed.

About a hundred teachers and educational community staff blocked the N-240 in both directions in Tarragona on Thursday morning, at the height of the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood, as part of the teachers’ strike in Catalonia. The teachers also block vehicle access to the roundabout leading to the N-240 and the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighborhood from the A-7 highway, where the Sescelades campus of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) is located.

A two-year-old girl has died inside her father’s vehicle, who left her there for most of the day after not taking her to daycare and forgetting that the girl was in the car. According to La Voz de Galicia, the father parked the vehicle and went straight to work, without realizing that the child was still in his care.

La autopista AP-7 has only one lane open northbound, at the height of Santa Margarida i Els Monjos (Barcelona) after the accident involving two trucks that caused a spectacular fire that did not cause any injuries. Consequently, traffic is slow between kilometers 201 and 207 of the road.

For some time now, the police, including the Mossos d’Esquadra, have been deciphering, analyzing, and interpreting all the data that can be extracted from an incident. This is what is called “police intelligence,” which is recorded in reports prepared by analysts and helps to understand objectively what is happening. This information is taken very much into account in decision-making or in the design of prevention policies. Every firearm incident is dissected, literally. And some data from that analysis show the real proportions of a problem that concerns the population and security officials. In Catalonia, an average of two shootings occur per week.

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.