The countdown begins for the elections in Andalusia on the upcoming May 17. This Friday, May 1, the electoral campaign opens, which for two weeks will serve the Andalusians to determine in whom they place their trust.
The Tuesday session in the Congress of Deputies, in which Junts overturned both the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium that ERC agreed with PSC, is still ongoing. It has led to a confrontation between republicans and post-convergence members that in some cases becomes personal, especially after the intervention of the Esquerra spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián, who named the seven JxCat deputies from the speaker’s platform and called for a review of their asset declarations on the institution’s website profile, implying that they had personal and economic interests in overturning the decree.
The Comuns MEP Jaume Asens has been discharged from the hospital after receiving a kidney from his mother in a successful transplant operation, as he himself explained on the social network Instagram.
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.”
Tonight the campaign for the election of the future government of the Junta de Andalucía begins. Its result closes the electoral cycle started in December and will cast a long shadow over the remainder of the legislature.
Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, filed last Wednesday afternoon with the National Police her announced complaint against activist Vito Quiles for what happened just a few hours earlier in a restaurant in Las Rozas (Madrid), according to sources from Moncloa reported to La Vanguardia.
The Attorney General of the State, Teresa Peramato, will propose to the Government the appointment of María Isabel Martín as the new Chief Prosecutor of Madrid, which means the replacement of Almudena Lastra, the prosecutor who testified against Álvaro García Ortiz in the trial in which he was convicted of revealing confidential data.
After almost six hours answering questions in the trial for the ‘Operation Kitchen’ held at the National Court, National Police Chief Inspector Manuel Morocho was eager to speak more. During the two sessions that his testimony lasted, the officer who led investigations such as Gürtel or the Bárcenas Papers recounted how he corroborated the existence of “a police operation without judicial authorization” targeting the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas, how he suffered pressure not to include the name of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in one of his reports, how the Ministry of the Interior at the time deployed “a strategy to dismantle” his police group, and how he found “indications” that his office and vehicle were monitored to conduct surveillance on him. “I don’t know if I can say something,” he asked the court president, Teresa Palacios, as she was dismissing him. At that moment, a nearly unanimous “no” was heard from the defendants’ bench, almost entirely. “The PP’s black beast,” as he recalled they called him yesterday, left without revealing that “thing” he still had to say. Although what he did say, exposing Kitchen, was not few.
When Samson had his hair cut, he lost his superhuman strength. Koldo García had his 27 mobile phones taken away by the police and has lost his memory. “I don’t remember,” has been the main response from the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos during the interrogation conducted by the prosecutor this morning. García, former minister Ábalos, and the commissioner Víctor de Aldama are being tried before the Supreme Court for the alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, influence peddling, bribery, insider trading, and embezzlement.
Firm, right! Right, right! March, right! One would think that the initiative of the Generalitat Government to strengthen the presence of the Mossos d’Esquadra in educational centers was equivalent to the promulgation of martial law. The so-called educational community, the part