Política

Comisiones Obreras and UGT claim that they decided to hold the May 1st demonstration in Málaga long before Juanma Moreno dissolved the Andalusian parliament and called for elections on May 17. The fact is that today, the first day of the Andalusian electoral campaign, coincided with the march through the center of the Málaga capital with the union leaders at the front and a little further back the left-wing candidates in these elections, among them, María Jesús Montero and the Government spokesperson, Elma Saiz, the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and Antonio Maíllo, candidate of Por Andalucía. ç

Koldo García wanted to become yesterday the protector and squire of his former boss, José Luis Ábalos, during his interrogation as an accused in the trial held at the Supreme Court for the so-called mask case. The former advisor took on as his own the actions that were for the former Minister of Transport because, as he said, “he will always be grateful” for appointing him as his personal advisor after meeting him during the PSOE primaries in 2017, after which Pedro Sánchez was proclaimed secretary general.

The first illusion is optical. It consists of believing that an electoral campaign in Andalusia involves environmental tension, social activism, and mass movements (of day laborer inspiration), which is the wet dream in the chancelleries of all political parties. It is not

Juanma Moreno, the president of the junta and PP candidate, started the electoral campaign tonight in the Murillo gardens in Seville in a quasi-family event. Not many people, all of them loyal devotees of the president waving Andalusian and Spanish flags.

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.