Política

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned in its latest annual report that last year disinformation campaigns have established themselves as “a prominent vector” of instability for Spain. The body that advises the President of the Government on National Security matters has identified Russia as the main actor from which campaigns aimed at influencing political processes, eroding trust in institutions, shaping public opinion, and weakening international cooperation originated.

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 PSOE leadership faces the final stretch of the electoral campaign in Andalusia just as it began: calling for a “massive last-minute mobilization” of progressive voters and the “concentration” of the left-wing vote on the ballot led by María Jesús Montero as the only “useful vote” to be able to remove Juanma Moreno Bonilla from the presidency of the Junta.

Who was one of the police commanders in the UDEF, when a decade ago the possible existence of a slush fund in the Popular Party was being investigated, has denied that pressure was applied to the investigative unit of the Gürtel Case to remove the name of the then Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, from their reports, as denounced two weeks ago by the head of those investigations, Chief Inspector Manuel Morocho. In the same courtroom of the National Court where the Kitchen Operation is being tried, the retired police officer, as a witness proposed by the defendants, also declared that there was never an order to dismantle the investigative group surrounding Génova, but quite the opposite: “They were always given the maximum support.”

On Sunday, which according to etymology is the day of the Lord, like all the others, in ancient Rome it was the day dedicated to the Sun. History is made of analogies that sometimes become equivalences. So, having reached the equinox of the campaign in Andalusia, it is fitting…

All election campaigns tend to deviate from their initial trajectory. The PP had designed a white, friendly campaign. The PSOE a red campaign, shouting long live healthcare and public services in general. But everything changed at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 150 kilometers off the coast of Huelva, when two Civil Guard agents died in an accidental collision during an anti-drug operation. As expected, those deaths have become a central part of the campaign.

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 Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office continues on the path of giving credibility to all, or a large part, of what the corrupter Víctor de Aldama has stated. For this reason, it has requested the judge investigating the cash payments from the PSOE to the former minister José Luis Ábalos to include the statement of the commission agent given as an accused in the Supreme Court.

The Prosecutor’s Office supports the partial pardon for the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz, convicted of a crime of disclosure of documents. The report has been submitted to the Supreme Court, which must now issue its own to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice for evaluation. The deputy prosecutor of the high court argues that the conviction has led the former number 1 of the public ministry to “intense and disproportionate extrapenal consequences.”

The political and diplomatic war unleashed around Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s institutional trip to Mexico has entered uncharted territory after the Community of Madrid issued a harsh official statement directly accusing Claudia Sheinbaum’s government of trying to sabotage the presence of the Madrid president at the Platino awards and of having caused, through their pressures, the early cancellation of part of the trip’s agenda. This decision became known just a few hours after the Madrid opposition accused her of having taken a “paid vacation” in Riviera Maya, after clearing her official agenda for 48 hours to travel to the Mexican tourist area.