It is hard to imagine today that Just Marlès Avenue in Lloret de Mar, popularly known as “la riera” and which concentrates much of the nightlife and an important hotel offer, was decades ago a wild place. In the sixties, the riverbed had not yet been paved and the sand reached the doors of the first hotels that were located there. Back then, that space which today is the core, was the outskirts.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has celebrated the “clear, undeniable and broad” victory of the PP in Andalusia and has already set his sights on the general elections, which are expected to be held from May next year. The leader of the PP believes that Juanma Moreno’s victory brings Spain closer to “another way of governing” and, in this regard, he has announced that, until the general elections, he will focus on promoting his political project without falling into the “distractions” of the Government, in a veiled reference to controversies surrounding Pedro Sánchez or corruption problems.
“Just because it has never happened does not mean we are not prepared when it does.” The phrase, from a Vox spokesperson, does not refer to the prevention of a health or climate emergency, but to the possibility of a woman dressed in a burka or niqab entering public offices. Specifically, in the Diputación de Valencia, the latest institution to join, this very week, the several dozen town halls, half of the regional parliaments, and even the Congress itself, which have voted on initiatives promoted by the far right against the use of the full Islamic veil (burka or niqab) in public buildings. The texts – only half of which have succeeded – mostly urge the Government to legislate on the matter, as it is a state competence. But the left refuses to ban the veil, for reasons of religious freedom and because there are no burkas in Spain and the niqab is a minority.
It was supposed to be barely two hours, but Luis Bárcenas had to eat a sandwich in the hallway of the Audiencia Nacional because his statement lasted five hours. It was one of the most anticipated appointments of the Kitchen plot trial, one of the biggest scandals in a country too accustomed to corruption. And it did not disappoint.
In the world of letters, on the fine line between literature and non-literature, and between reality and fiction, we add authors who, without having book writing as the center of their professional life, will also be at the stands signing books today. This is the case of Natza Farré, one of the attendees at La Vanguardia’s party, who assures that she feels equally strange “in the world of literati, as in the journalistic, as in the media, because I am not part of any group,” but thanks to all those worlds, she assures that she makes a living writing, something that many authors cannot say.
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.
There will be no meeting between Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sánchez. Palazzo Chigi and La Moncloa had been working for days on a meeting at the Italian Government headquarters for Tuesday afternoon, but in the end “the schedules did not coincide,” diplomatic sources explain, adding that there is a commitment to organize a bilateral meeting at the first European summit where both coincide.
The PP of Catalonia will hold its congress on June 27 with the aim of relaunching the project eight years after the last conclave. Alejandro Fernández (Tarragona, 1976) is running for re-election as president, having overcome tensions with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the intention of strengthening the party and growing as an alternative.
The Israeli flag already flies atop Beaufort Castle, the main lookout of southern Lebanon. The fortress, built 900 years ago during the Crusaders’ advance towards Jerusalem, is a symbolic but also strategic conquest for the Israeli Army, which is already advancing into Lebanese territory beyond the Litani River.
There are matches that last a sneeze; others, on the other hand, are as long as a night watching over a baby. The Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) with nothing at stake falls squarely into the second category. What is the point of the game of a team whose motto is only to win when it can no longer do so? That is what the white footballers who took to the pitch would have thought, whistled at by their fans during the warm-up, then victims of a sepulchral silence in a half-empty Bernabéu. It is more interesting to spend the San Isidro holiday elsewhere than watching Camavinga lose balls in his season to forget, the icing on the cake being that, hours before the match, it was made official that he would miss the World Cup. “I understand that he is pissed off,” said the eloquent Didier Deschamps.