The first witnesses deflated the accusations against David Sánchez yesterday. “I don’t remember,” “I have no evidence,” or “there were no irregularities” were the main statements during the long court session. The brother of the Prime Minister sits in the dock at the Badajoz Court accused of separate crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling for allegedly having been given a job at the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017.
Widows have always had a reserved seat in the world of investments. The Scottish Widows investment fund was created in the early 19th century to assist women who lost their husbands in the Napoleonic wars and today manages more than 200 billion euros. In Spain, the dividends from the elevator company Zardoya were once known as “the widows’ dividend,” for being as reliable as leaving a pension.
The Champions League begins. Barça met this afternoon its eight rivals in the league phase of the top continental competition, which it has not won since 2015 and aims to conquer in Hansi Flick’s third year leading the blaugrana team. More experienced, more mature, and with the same enthusiasm as always.
“While the scheming opposition can continue maneuvering, we will keep governing until 2027 and for as long as the Spanish people want,” warned Pedro Sánchez. In a climate of total uncertainty amid the flood of legal cases surrounding the political and family environment of the Prime Minister, and without knowing how far these processes may escalate but also with no expectation that the storm will subside, nothing is better than a good warm bath of youthful socialist militancy to try to catch one’s breath and, at the same time, attempt to inject fighting spirit into troops torn between indignation and discouragement.
The investigating court number 3 of Esplugues has ordered provisional imprisonment for the accused of killing a 41-year-old woman last Saturday in the Finestrelles neighborhood of the municipality. The man, of Moroccan nationality, slit the victim’s throat, who was of Chinese nationality, after stabbing her several times in the abdomen and chest. The attack, according to initial hypotheses, was random. The victim was calmly walking down the street where she lived when she was attacked by the assailant without any prior relationship.
World champion Pablo Páez ‘Gavi’ has downplayed the incidents after Spain’s victory over Argentina in the World Cup final (1-0) and considered them a “part of football that is a bit more violent”, but that does not deserve suspensions.
Vinícius, Mbappé and Konaté refused to participate in the act of support for the people of Ceuta that some teams in the League are offering today. The three Real Madrid players wore the shirt with a message for the autonomous city, before the match against Elche at the Martínez Valeron, but they hid the message.
Good news in the labor market is terrible for investors. This was confirmed this Friday on Wall Street where the three indices suffered severe drops, led especially by the Nasdaq (down 4%) due to a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks once the good job creation results were announced.
“It may be a formality, but it is evident that the candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat will be the person who is here holding the Speakership of the Compromís group, as it could not be otherwise.” With this firmness, the spokesperson in the Valencian Courts of the coalition, Joan Baldoví, expressed himself this Monday when asked about the Compromís candidacy in next year’s regional elections.
The sum of PP and Vox approved this Friday the law of fiscal measures, administrative and financial management, and organization of the Generalitat Valenciana, also known as the accompaniment to the 2026 regional budgets, against the rejection of PSPV-PSOE and Compromís.
