The Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, announced today in the Parliament, during the voting on amendments to the Catalan Public Employment Bill, the creation “for the first time” in Catalonia of 540 positions for national civil servants authorized to fill vacancies for secretaries and auditors in Catalonia. Dalmau assured that the process to implement these positions will be approved next week within the Catalan government.

Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has dismissed the appeals filed by Begoña Gómez, her advisor in Moncloa Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés against his decision to refer the case to a jury if it ultimately goes to trial, while also once again rejecting the dismissal of the investigation for the crimes of influence peddling, corruption in private sector business, embezzlement, and misappropriation of public funds in relation to the chair held by the wife of the Prime Minister at the Complutense University of Madrid.

The PSC brought to debate this Thursday a motion in the Parliament in which they condemn the Islamophobic and xenophobic chants that occurred in the Spain-Egypt match on March 31 at the RCDE Stadium. One of the regrettable messages heard was “muslim who doesn’t jump,” a chant that Vox has defended from the Catalan Chamber’s podium. The ultra party deputy, Alberto Tarradas, asked “what is wrong with this phrase that comes from the spontaneity and joy of the people.” And he did not stop there. Tarradas pronounced this expression and added that he did not jump to “maintain a certain decorum,” but that his entire group “jumps.”