Tonight the campaign for the election of the future government of the Junta de Andalucía begins. Its result closes the electoral cycle started in December and will cast a long shadow over the remainder of the legislature.
Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, filed last Wednesday afternoon with the National Police her announced complaint against activist Vito Quiles for what happened just a few hours earlier in a restaurant in Las Rozas (Madrid), according to sources from Moncloa reported to La Vanguardia.
The Attorney General of the State, Teresa Peramato, will propose to the Government the appointment of María Isabel Martín as the new Chief Prosecutor of Madrid, which means the replacement of Almudena Lastra, the prosecutor who testified against Álvaro García Ortiz in the trial in which he was convicted of revealing confidential data.
After almost six hours answering questions in the trial for the ‘Operation Kitchen’ held at the National Court, National Police Chief Inspector Manuel Morocho was eager to speak more. During the two sessions that his testimony lasted, the officer who led investigations such as Gürtel or the Bárcenas Papers recounted how he corroborated the existence of “a police operation without judicial authorization” targeting the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas, how he suffered pressure not to include the name of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in one of his reports, how the Ministry of the Interior at the time deployed “a strategy to dismantle” his police group, and how he found “indications” that his office and vehicle were monitored to conduct surveillance on him. “I don’t know if I can say something,” he asked the court president, Teresa Palacios, as she was dismissing him. At that moment, a nearly unanimous “no” was heard from the defendants’ bench, almost entirely. “The PP’s black beast,” as he recalled they called him yesterday, left without revealing that “thing” he still had to say. Although what he did say, exposing Kitchen, was not few.
When Samson had his hair cut, he lost his superhuman strength. Koldo García had his 27 mobile phones taken away by the police and has lost his memory. “I don’t remember,” has been the main response from the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos during the interrogation conducted by the prosecutor this morning. García, former minister Ábalos, and the commissioner Víctor de Aldama are being tried before the Supreme Court for the alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, influence peddling, bribery, insider trading, and embezzlement.
Puig continues with negotiations with the American group Estée Lauder for a possible merger, but admits that there is no guarantee that the operation will go ahead. “As long as there is no agreement, it cannot be guaranteed that there will be an operation or its terms,” reiterated the Catalan fragrance multinational in its communication to the CNMV of the results up to March.
BBVA obtained a profit of 2.989 billion euros in the first quarter of the year, 11% more, after having managed to raise its profitability to 21.7% in terms of ROTE, which places it among the banks with the highest performance in one of the variables to which the sector pays the most attention.
Despite the geopolitical environment, CaixaBank managed to increase its profits by 7% in the first quarter to 1,572 million euros. The bank also maintained an upward trend in the net interest margin in the first quarter, something it also achieved in the second half of the year.
According to most indicators, China’s manufacturing sector is the largest in the world and has grown faster than that of any other major economy in the past 25 years. The manufacturing sector has generated a total of about 5 trillion dollars in value added; and in 2024 it employed about 70 million workers in manufacturing enterprises above a certain size. China’s share in the global manufacturing industry has experienced strong increases: it went from 6% in 2000 to 26% in 2015; and, despite the ups and downs of some years, it approached 30% in 2024.
One year after the blackout in Spain, which led us to an unusual situation, any major service outage begins to seem possible. We now live in a kind of technological variant of the Overton window concept, a theoretical model in political science by which an unthinkable discourse or situation ends up being accepted in the long run as normal due to its constant presence in the public space.