Política

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.

Andalusia, this time its waters of Huelva, has once again been the scene of a tragedy that strikes the Civil Guard. On the day the institution celebrated the largest cocaine seizure so far in the world, two of its men, a captain and a civil guard, aged 54 and 55, died when their Maritime Service vessels, the patrol boat Rio Antas and a rigid inflatable boat of the corps in which the two deceased were traveling, collided while trying to cut off the passage to a drug-running boat. The rigid inflatable boat is 12 meters long and has three engines, similar in structure, but much larger and faster than the zodiac run over by a drug-running boat in Barbate, in February 2024, in which two civil guards died.

The president of the Junta of Andalusia and PP candidate in the elections, Juanma Moreno, has described this Thursday the idea of national priority promoted by the ultranationalist party Vox as “propagandistic.” In his opinion, it is a proposal that in some aspects is unrealistic, and even illegal.

An election campaign basically consists of raising a bell tower. The higher it is, the bigger the bell and the farther the ringing reaches, the better for the officiating parish priest. However, it happens that sometimes, down on the street, things happen that distract people to the point that no one pays attention to the ringing.

While some PSOE ministers have begun to spread out across Andalusian cities in events supporting their candidate and former Government colleague, María Jesús Montero, she continues her crusade in defense of public services, becoming the main and almost sole argument of her electoral campaign. Montero talks about the deterioration of healthcare wherever she goes.

An election campaign basically consists of raising a bell tower. The higher it is, the bigger the bell and the farther the ringing reaches, the better for the officiating priest. However, it happens that sometimes, down on the street, things happen that distract people to the point that no one pays attention to the ringing.

The visit of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to Mexico continues to chain episodes of tension and verbal clashes with President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has accused her of displaying “ignorance” and a lack of historical knowledge about the figure of Hernán Cortés in what is already the third clash between them in just three days.