The general elections on Sunday in Sweden, whose counting has not yet finished, preliminarily grant the absolute majority to the bloc of center-left parties of the former Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, against the alliance of right-wing parties that supports the current ruler, the conservative Ulf Kristersson.
The candidate for re-election as president of the Junta de Andalucía, the popular Juanma Moreno Bonilla, warned this Saturday that drug trafficking has become a “very serious” problem for Andalucía and for Spain, where it has recently claimed several lives such as the two members of the Civil Guard who died yesterday in the line of duty in Huelva while pursuing a drug-running speedboat. “We are going to win this battle with the effort of society and the drive and capability of the Civil Guard and the National Police,” he added
The Kings, Princess Leonor, Infanta Sofía, and Queen Sofía appeared this Tuesday, punctual and polished, at 9 p.m. to receive in the gardens of the Marivent palace the more than six hundred guests who, like the royal family, faced a torrid night in which not even the relaxed dress code imposed last year, which allowed men to forgo the suit and tie and choose between a guayabera or a shirt, was enough.
In his first public appearance at the start of the new political term, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, wanted to send a message of firmness in the face of the multiple and colossal challenges that Catalonia faces. In his speech during the working sessions that the Catalan Executive is holding this Friday and Saturday at the Monestir de les Avellanes in Os de Balaguer (Lleida), the head of the Government warned that an intense political term is coming in which he will make “decisions” that are transcendental, that “will shape and determine the next decade,” and that will generate “noise,” confrontation,” gesticulation and “even falsehoods, on the part of the opposition.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, begins the new school year with a strike and with Catalonia excluded from the PISA report. In this interview, she proposes opening a phase of “construction” with the unions and promoting spaces for dialogue with the community on aspects of the system, such as inclusive schooling or immigration, and pedagogical issues: “If a child is not reading in 3rd grade of Primary, what do we have to do?”.
The judge overseeing the dana case has issued an order rejecting the holding of a confrontation between former councilor Salomé Pradas, under investigation in the case, and the Deputy Director General of Emergencies of the Generalitat, Jorge Suárez, at the request of the private prosecutors.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday asked Spain for evidence of its alleged involvement in a disinformation campaign that would have caused the migration crisis in the autonomous city of Ceuta, as hinted yesterday by the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
The search for the four missing Italian tourists in the Maldives has claimed a new victim. A diver from the National Defense Forces of the archipelago died this Saturday in the hospital after being admitted in critical condition during rescue operations in the underwater caves of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll.
The European Court of Justice will set a precedent on the Amnesty law for the first time on Thursday and will give the green light for the Constitutional Court (TC) to rule on the protection appeals pending resolution two years after the entry into force of the criminal forgetfulness. The ruling, beyond the legal effects, will have political repercussions. If favorable, it will represent a boost to the Government of Pedro Sánchez’s bet – heavily criticized in the first part of the legislature by PP and Vox – and will begin to clear the way for the return of former president Carles Puigdemont and former ministers Lluís Puig and Toni Comín, who are still expatriated.
The luminous Susan Sarandon has arrived at the Venice Film Festival with The Echo Chamber, an Italian film directed by Andrea Pallaoro based on the last script by Bernardo Bertolucci, who died in 2018 without having reviewed the second draft. Alicia Vikander and Luca Marinelli are the lead couple in this story of love and anguish in which a music producer with a great apartment in London – the alter ego of the young Bertolucci – and with back pain – that of the older Bertolucci – has a physiotherapist brought in while preparing an album with a veteran singer.
