Política

The reunion of Pedro Sánchez with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Wednesday in the control session in Congress, has resulted in a tense struggle between the two to once again set the framework for the political debate. The leader of the Popular Party has thrown in his face both the corruption scandals affecting the Executive and the problems in public services due to the railway crisis after the Adamuz accident: “The only thing that matches your corruption is your incompetence,” he reproached him. And the President of the Government, in turn, reproached him for the pact sealed by the PP and Vox in Extremadura, which in his opinion “kicks the Constitution, violating the principle of equality among citizens and the principle of non-discrimination,” in the face of the “national priority” defended by the far-right.

The PP’s vote against has led to the defeat of the motion promoted by Vox in Congress, but the ultra-party won the battle it sought by imposing the concept of “national priority” in the parliamentary debate to drag the PP into pronouncing on it. The term, included in the government agreement with the popular party in Extremadura, has reopened discrepancies between both parties in the midst of the negotiation process for regional governments in Aragon, where an agreement seems imminent, and Castilla y León.

The former CEO of Globalia, owner of Air Europa, Francisco Javier Hidalgo, not only defended the legality of the airline’s rescue during the pandemic but also harshly criticized the conditions under which the Government finally agreed to the loan, which he described as the worst in the history of the entire world.

Former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz has witnessed from the front row of the dock at the Audiencia Nacional how the main evidence against him for his alleged involvement in Operation Kitchen has finally vanished. The smoking gun that dragged him here are some messages supposedly sent to him by his former number two, Francisco Martínez, in which he told him that the operation to steal information from the former treasurer of the Popular Party, Luis Bárcenas, had been carried out “successfully,” with “all” of it being dumped. This Tuesday, a second notary —just like the first one did— has ratified that it is impossible to certify that the phone number Martínez had attributed on his mobile to the contact saved as Fernández Díaz actually belonged to the former Interior Minister.

Jéssica Rodríguez, former partner of José Luis Ábalos, accompanied the then minister on 13 official trips “national and international” out of the 293 registered by the head of Transport, according to what was declared this morning by Ana María Aranda, former secretary of Ábalos in the trial being held before the Supreme Court against the former socialist minister, his former advisor Koldo García and the commissioner Víctor de Aldama.

The National Court tribunal trying the Pujol family has summoned the former president of the Generalitat in person for next Monday at 9:30 in the morning, who is to open the round of statements by the accused in this case.

The first day on which the extraordinary regularization of immigrants in Spain can be processed is characterized by a low influx of applicants at Post Offices and points enabled for this purpose, as La Vanguardia has been able to confirm. The vast majority of potential beneficiaries are still stuck in previous procedures, such as obtaining the historical census and the vulnerability certificate.

The PSOE would win the general elections if they were held now and would do so with the maximum support of the entire legislature, an estimated 36.4% of the vote, according to the April barometer from the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), released this Monday, which places the PP thirteen points behind the socialists, with 23.6% -a result similar to that of recent months-, and portrays Vox in free fall, with 14.7%, four points less than in February.

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