Pope Leo XIV will meet with the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, on Tuesday, June 9 in the afternoon, at 4:15 PM. It was a meeting that was not on the public agenda of the Pontiff and was already planned, since between the midday prayer at the Barcelona cathedral and the event at the Lluís Companys stadium there were several free hours which, according to the trip organizers, were for private meetings of the Pontiff.

Juanma Moreno, the president of the junta and PP candidate, started the electoral campaign tonight in the Murillo gardens in Seville in a quasi-family event. Not many people, all of them loyal devotees of the president waving Andalusian and Spanish flags.

The Department of the Interior admitted this Wednesday to the infiltration of two agents from the Mossos d’Esquadra information unit in the teachers’ assembly in Barcelona, within the framework of the protests by Catalan teachers and the conflict they maintain with the Government. The Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, has apologized to the teachers and union members, to whom she has offered a meeting. “I apologize for the feeling of distrust and insecurity regarding the right to protest and your assembly work,” said the socialist leader to the teachers’ representatives present today in the Parliament.

The Spanish political landscape is always shifting, but the vibration is special these days. There are pieces that may fall to the ground. In this context, La Vanguardia interviews Arnaldo Otegi, leader of EH Bildu, the most stable and silent ally of President Pedro Sánchez.

At the beginning of this century, pilgrimages by the Spanish left to Porto Alegre became very fashionable. A trade unionist had just come to power in Brazil whose biography began as a street child who earned a living as a shoeshine boy, street vendor, and,

Pope Leo XIV will also use Catalan in the blessing of the tower of Jesus of the Sagrada Família, at the climax of the Pontiff’s trip to Spain.