In its new review of pension sustainability, Airef reaffirmed this morning the opinion it gave last year: the spending rule is being met and, therefore, the Government will not have to raise contributions, but it criticizes the analysis mechanism that has been established and warns that sustainability is not guaranteed.
The package of measures adopted to address the Iran war continues to have an effect on containing prices. In the third month of the conflict, in May, inflation remained at the same level as in April, 3.2%, according to the preliminary data provided by the INE this morning. This containment is due to three factors: the aid package approved by the Government, still in effect; the fact that food prices have not risen, having moderated when they increased in May of last year; and the weight of renewables, which has allowed the containment of electricity prices.
Catalunya extends the age limit from 35 to 40 years to access the public loan program of up to 50,000 euros to finance the purchase of a home among young people. This was announced by the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, at an event in Barcelona this Friday. The change, effective since June 1, shows the difficulty young people have in accessing the real estate market, which forces them to postpone the purchase of their first home more and more. “We want to reach people who have a life project ahead, who have not had time to generate savings,” Illa stated.
The standoff continues between Educació and teachers’ unions in Catalonia. Yesterday Thursday, after six hours of negotiation and 300 million more on the table, there was no agreement and the union representatives decided to lock themselves in the conselleria headquarters.
The first session of the trial against David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, proceeded slowly. David Sánchez arrived at the Audiencia de Badajoz, where he is being tried for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and malfeasance, at 9:40 in the morning. He got out of the car, put on his blazer, and entered calmly into the interior of the Palace of Justice.
The expert hired by the defense in the Andic case, Francisco Marco, from the Método 3 agency, has defended on El Món on Rac1 that the case against Jonathan Andic for the death of Isak Andic is flawed due to the insistence of a Mossos d’Esquadra agent in presenting evidence that Marco considers fabricated. Before Jordi Basté, he provided data that refutes the evidence made public so far: the footprint on the mountain, the manner of the fall, the relationship between Isak Andic and his son, or the loss of the phone in Quito.
The question had been hovering over Mango for months, although it had not been voiced aloud: could the heir to the textile empire remain in the vice presidency while the judicial investigation into his father’s death progressed?
When the trial for the Kitchen operation started almost two months ago, there was doubt in the National Court about whether the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s government – with Jorge Fernández Díaz and Francisco Martínez in it – would end up stabbing each other to avoid being tagged with the “X” of the parapolice plot, financed with reserved funds, to steal compromising information for the Popular Party whose treasurer was Luis Bárcenas. With the extremely high-voltage confrontation they both protagonized during the investigation as a precedent, it did not seem far-fetched that they would go into hand-to-hand combat with a every man for himself attitude. But yesterday, that idea vanished: there was a non-aggression pact.
Sometimes everything happens purely by chance. Or not. The fact is that the long-awaited statement of the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz at the National Court to defend himself regarding his alleged involvement in the police operation to spy on the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas has…
It is about “toppling a government, not at the polls but with other tricks,” warned Minister Óscar Puente yesterday, in the face of the flood of legal cases pressuring Pedro Sánchez. “The PSOE will not tolerate it, we will not bow to anyone’s attempts to disturb our democracy through methods that are not democratic,” warned the Minister of Transport from Congress.