Política

The Ripoll City Council has hired one of the daughters of the town’s mayor, Sílvia Orriols, as an interim local police officer. Orriols herself announced it in the plenary session on Tuesday afternoon and made it clear that she has not “appointed anyone by hand” and that she has “completely abstained from participating in anything related to the process.” “Just as I cannot benefit her with my position, I also cannot prevent her from fulfilling her dream,” she assured.

The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has described the migratory pressure situation that the autonomous city has been experiencing in recent days as a “national emergency.” “It must be addressed from that perspective, as a national emergency through a decisive, energetic, proportional, forceful, immediate action that is coordinated through a single command” of the Government, he emphasized, adding later that in the last week “1,500 people have entered,” which “means the equivalent of almost 2% of the entire population of Ceuta.”

President Salvador Illa delivered a conference this morning at the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), the country’s chamber of commerce and main business organization, as part of the institutional tour of Southeast Asia. From that forum, he warned of the “discourses of fear towards the different” heard in Catalonia, in allusion to the far-right, and contrasted them with the ethnic and religious diversity that prevails in Singapore.

Corruption is not fought by pardoning those who practice it. A true fact that gives reason to those who have been upset by the government grace measure approved in favor of the former socialist mayor of Linares Juan Fernández; the cultural manager Natalio Grueso, and the…

The assessment of the management that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, made this week has served to close the curtain on a tense political season awaiting an early election that has not taken place. At this end of the season, La Vanguardia grades the political parties, just as we did last year.

The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to summon as a suspect on September 10 the former director of the Civil Guard Leonardo Marcos in the case being investigated against an alleged plot aimed at destabilizing the judicial proceedings affecting the PSOE and the Government.

The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has authorized the UDEF, through the money laundering service SEPBLAC, to analyze several dozen accounts of the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his daughters, Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, his secretary, Gertrudis Alcázar, his friend Julio Martínez Martínez, and several companies under investigation amid suspicions that all of them might have concealed funds or moved money of illicit origin.

In his end-of-political-course assessment, Pedro Sánchez celebrated last Tuesday the recent endorsement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of the Amnesty law: “It has confirmed that we acted in accordance with the law to promote reconciliation.” “It was a brave but necessary decision that allows us to look to the future together again,” he emphasized. He even stressed that “a success of the Amnesty law is that the PP and Junts are reunited, nothing more and nothing less.” However, the President of the Government said nothing in his appearance about the fact that the Council of Ministers had just approved, in its last meeting before the August break, granting a partial pardon to Laura Borràs, which will prevent the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia from going to prison, as later revealed by the Ministry of Justice.

Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has informed Judge Juan Carlos Peinado that she is changing her lawyer for the jury trial she will have to face and for which she is being asked for 13 years in prison, according to legal sources.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, reviews a difficult political term marked by various judicial cases affecting the PSOE or its family environment and by the lack of agreements that have prevented the approval of the planned housing decree and have moved away the possibility of new budgets.