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The Plenary Session of the Civil and Criminal Chamber has unanimously ruled out by its five members not applying the special jurisdiction to the former president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, as it did not find in the acquisition of the status of regional deputy “any abuse of right”. The TSJ dismisses the appeals and confirms its decision not to investigate the Alicante politician for the management of the DANA

The Directorate General for Civil Protection, under the Ministry of Interior, carried out this Monday at 11:00 AM the first drill of the mass alert system for mobile phones (ES-Alert) for a nuclear emergency in the closest influence area to Vandellòs II. It had never before been put into practice alongside the Catalan nuclear power plants. Without yet having the information from telecommunications operators and surveys of residents, there are doubts about the arrival of alerts in some dark areas, without coverage or with deficiencies, within the first ten-kilometer radius of the plant.

“Where’s the queue?” asked a desperate father accompanied by his daughters in Girona’s Devesa park this morning. He was running around like a headless chicken trying to guess the end of an endless line. His sight couldn’t reach any further, and the distress on his face was more than palpable.

Workers from the Margarida Xirgu and Eugeni d’Ors institutes in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès) gathered this Monday outside these centers to reject the Government’s plan to deploy plainclothes Mossos d’Esquadra to reduce conflict.

Many years ago, at least twenty, the then editor-in-chief of this section fired at the journalist in charge of writing the chronicle of Sant Jordi’s day with a question as brief as the subsequent answer was:

The parliamentary group of Vox in the Valencian Parliament has registered a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) with the aim of establishing the principle of “national priority” in the management of public services. The initiative proposes that Spanish citizens have preference in access to social aid, housing, and public benefits, in what the party defines as a reorientation of the current welfare model. The initiative by the far-right party now forces the PP, and its leader Juanfran Pérez Llorca, to comment on this initiative in the Valencian chamber.

The Sant Jordi festival once again transforms Barcelona and other cities and towns in Catalonia into a sea of books and roses from early morning, with crowds in its streets on a very emblematic day despite falling on a weekday. This year, along with flowers and reading, the protagonists in cities like Barcelona are the wind and pollen, especially that from plane trees that flies over many streets and causes eye and throat irritation for many citizens.

The purchase of Renfe’s new trains to renew its rolling stock is progressing at different rates depending on the manufacturer. The first units for the Madrid commuter rail network, which are coming out of the Stadler plant, are already undergoing final tests at a testing center in Albacete.

July 2022. Laura lives alone in a room in a hostel in Barcelona with her five-year-old son. Her economic situation is precarious, and she subsists thanks to a job that forces her to be away from home for a few hours. During her workday, she asks a neighbor to take care of

At its peak, the column of smoke was visible from some parts of the city of Barcelona. The reason, a fire that broke out on Montjuïc mountain, in the Catalan capital, which was stabilized at 7 PM and burned vegetation in the area of the mountain’s lighthouse path. The fire caused the evacuation of Montjuïc Castle. The cable car service was also suspended as a precaution. Fortunately, there were no injuries.