Barcelona has been debating tourist overcrowding for a few years. The tourism-phobic voices promoted by certain political parties encouraged demonstrations and street gestures of hostility towards tourists that went viral worldwide, such as violent assaults on…
I’m “going as a lady with chemo.” This was the response that Teresa Rodríguez, founder of Adelante Andalucía, gave yesterday on her social media to an internet user who was mocking her for wearing a kufiya on her head. “What are you dressed up as?” he snapped. The response left no one indifferent.
“The civil guards are very persistent, also when searching for victims. Hope is the last thing to go,” says the highest-ranking officer of the Civil Guard in the Valencian Community, General José Antonio Fernández de Luz. In an interview with the EFE Agency, Fernández de Luz responds this way when asked about the search efforts for two of the 230 fatalities of the dana, including a guard from the Paiporta post and the wife of another agent. “At least every 15 days we set up a search operation to look again where we have already been or in areas that experts in the field may indicate to us,” he adds about the search, almost 19 months after the dana, for the bodies of Elisabeth and Francisco, two of the flood victims.
The PSPV-PSOE spokesperson in the Valencian Corts, José Muñoz, has denounced that the president of the Generalitat, Pérez Llorca, “has hidden” from the Valencian people that the Government of Pedro Sánchez approved in February an advance of 200 million euros on account of the settlement of the financing system to help him pay the bills for health, education, and social services. The information, explains the PSPV, comes after reviewing the official documentation sent by the Ministry of Finance to the socialist group in the Corts, and the Finance resolution to the request of the regional government stipulates that the advance granted “will be canceled when the payment of the settlement of the financing system corresponding to 2024 is made.”
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana met this Sunday with some teachers at the pilgrimage of San Pascual Bailón in Monforte del Cid, in Alicante, and there he spoke with them about the situation of public education. In the video he shared on the social network “X” Pérez Llorca is seen talking with a group of teachers, dressed in the green t-shirt that characterizes the teachers these days of indefinite strike. And in the message preceding the video, he insists on the idea of dialogue: “Talking and working. That is the best way to solve the situation of education in the Valencian Community. Always willing to dialogue, because only by talking, listening, and working together can we move forward.”
The duty judge of the Lleida court of first instance has ordered the provisional imprisonment, communicated and without bail, of Dino Marcello Miller, considered one of the most dangerous criminals in Catalonia, who had been released from the Ponent penitentiary center last April 16 after serving his sentence.
Just walk a few streets up or down to come across the yellow color of the construction fences. The total number of ongoing works in the public space of Barcelona today is 293. Some are larger, others smaller, and they are spread throughout the city.
Barcelona has identified for the first time the presence of a new butterfly species, the Provence hairstreak or verdeta d’ull ros in Catalan (Callophrys avis). The finding, which was reported today by the City Council, was made a few weeks ago within the framework of the urban butterfly monitoring program of Barcelona, the uBMS observatory, during a sampling in the Laberint de Horta Park. With this observation, there are now 52 species of diurnal butterflies recorded in Barcelona, a figure that represents approximately 26% of all species present in Catalonia.
Abstention was expected to be one of the great fears in these elections, but the day is disproving that fear with data in hand. The people of Andalusia are going to vote and are doing so to a greater extent than in 2022. This is confirmed by the third (and final) turnout update, provided by the Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, from the Data Center. By 6:00 p.m., 51.65% of the census had already voted, more than seven points above the 44.51% recorded at the same time four years ago.
It was 09:00 hours when the polling stations in Andalusia opened their doors ready to receive the thousands of voters who are called to participate today in the regional elections. The day started with some minor incidents, several anecdotes at the start of the day, and an initial turnout report that points to a slight decrease compared to the 2022 elections.
