Doctors and medical professionals from the Community of Madrid resume this Monday the third week of an indefinite strike called to show their rejection of the Framework Statute agreement reached between the Ministry of Health and several unions and to demand their own text for the collective that recognizes the singularities of these professionals.
During the second legislature of the Botànic, the three left-wing parties (PSPV, Compromís, and Unides Podem) reached a preliminary agreement with Ciudadanos to reform the Valencian electoral law of 1987. The four groups totaled 70 deputies (two more than the two-thirds necessary to modify a regulation protected by a reinforced majority). It was an ambitious proposal that not only lowered the electoral threshold from 5% regional to 3% of valid votes – it proposed the obligation to achieve this percentage in each of the three provincial constituencies as well as in the Valencian Community as a whole -. The reform also introduced important novelties such as the possibility for the elector to show their preference for up to three candidates from the same list, the obligation to hold debates on Valencian public television, or to increase by 5% the amount of the electoral subsidy for those candidacies chosen by primaries.
The president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community, Vicente Lafuente, expressed this Monday his rejection of migration policies based on the concept of “national priority” defended by Vox, while warning that this approach should not become an obstacle to the approval of the regional budgets.
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.
