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Carmen Gomaro - leading international news and investigative reporter. Worked at various media outlets in Spain, Argentina and Colombia, including Diario de Cádiz, CNN+, Telemadrid and EFE.
SPAIN

The PP will govern without Vox in Palma and maintains its plan to do the same in the Balearic Government

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There is no pact or agreement between PP and Vox in the main town hall of the Balearic Islands. Except for an improbable last-minute twist, the 'populares' led by Jaime Martínez will govern alone one of the most strategically important institutions of the archipelago, where the formula that will guide the autonomous government is still in the air, which is still in the negotiation phase between the two right-wing political forces.

It has been the leader of Vox in Palma, Fulgencio Coll, who this Friday has announced that his party will not be part of the municipal government, where until now and since 2015 the PSOE has governed (with a two-year period in which the leadership was in the hands of its nationalist partners) and that it returns to the hands of the PP after eight years on the opposition bench.

The PP of Martínez was the list with the most votes with 11 of 29 councilors, in the absence of 4 councilors from the absolute majority. Vox obtained 6, and only the sum of both guarantees an absolute majority against the block of left-wing parties, allies for two terms.

With the non-inclusion of Vox, the PP will govern in a minority, promoting specific agreements and seeking support. A formula that, since the very election night, has been the priority for the one who will be the new mayor. Martínez has always defended his intention to govern alone, clinging to his status as the most voted candidate.

Coll, a retired general, former chief of the Army General Staff and one of the best-known figures of Santiago Abascal's party, has declared that his party will exercise “forceful opposition” against the PP. And he has attributed his exclusion from the Consistory to the “closeness” of the PP and his refusal to integrate them into a bicolor government.

The City Council must elect its mayor during a plenary session to be held tomorrow, Saturday. Although there have been attempts to find common ground, the week ends without an agreement for Coll and his councilors to vote in favor of the PP mayor.

Other municipalities

Palma has an obvious importance on the political board of the entire Balearic region and could mark the trend of government in autonomy. However, in the case of Vox, the two brands have operated practically separately due to the personal distance between their two leaders.. When negotiating, each team has gone on their own.

Unlike what has happened in the Balearic capital, PP and Vox have formed coalition governments in other relevant municipalities, such as Calviá (considered the second most important in Mallorca and a historical socialist bastion), Marratxí or Llucmajor.

With regard to the Government, the main body of political power in the Balearic Islands, the positions are currently deadlocked and the formula that will allow the candidate with the most votes, Margalida Prohens (PP), to form a government is unknown.

The PP leader maintains her determination to govern in a minority and assert her 26 deputies. One more than all the left together. With these credentials, he considers that he has the support of the polls to govern alone, without the need to integrate Vox into his Executive. Vox has 8 deputies, with an absolute majority at 29.

The president of Vox in the Islands, Jorge Campos, for his part, maintains his position: he wants to enter the government and have management responsibilities, not limit himself to abstaining so that Prohens is president in exchange for a programmatic policy agreement that he should support from the outside.

castled postures

Although it sounds like an ordeal, from Vox it even slips that a vote against his group would force a repetition of the elections, something that seems highly unlikely, especially when one of Vox's main electoral drivers has been to end the government of the socialist Francina Armengol.

Campos (whose origin is, to be precise, Valencian) looks in the mirror of Valencia, where Vox has entered the government. However, in the Valencian community the electoral result is different from that of the Balearic Islands, since there the PP does not add more support than the left, which gives its opponents a blocking capacity that the PSOE and its left allies do not have. in the Balearic Islands.

Until now, and during the last two weeks, there have been two official meetings, as well as continued informal contacts and conversations between both parties. At the moment there is no understanding and no agreement has been reached, and the two parties maintain their positions, although it is common in this kind of negotiations..

On Thursday, after meeting his board of directors, personally led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Prohens was sure that the agreement between the two formations “is not only necessary but possible”. However, he did not specify anything else, and his intention continues to be that of an agreement without Vox in the institutions, passing off that agreement as an abstention of the eight Vox deputies so that he can be president and form a government solely of the PP. He asked for “patience”, aware that “time is pressing”.

Next Tuesday, June 20, the first parliamentary act of the legislature will be held, the one in which the parliamentary groups that have emanated from the polls are configured and the members of the Bureau are appointed in the autonomous legislative chamber. In the event that there is no progress in the negotiation, a representative concession to Vox could then be visualized, such as one of the presidencies or vice-presidencies of the Chamber. Or, on the contrary, some way of reinforcing the PP's position of not counting on Santiago Abascal's party, similar to what has happened in Murcia.

As of that day, a period of 15 days begins to run to convene the investiture session. It is expected that by then there will be a resolution of the negotiation that currently continues without an agreement and the right will return to power in the Balearic Islands after eight years in opposition. The chips are on the board. And the days will solve the game.

SPORTS

Simpson, Casartelli, Tondo… and Mäder, the last of a tragic and extensive list

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Another cyclist who dies in competition, in “combat”. Another victim of a job that is always difficult, often dangerous and sometimes cruel. Mortal, in its most extreme degree of hardness, risk and cruelty. This time tragedy has knocked on the door of Gino Mäder, a 26-year-old Swiss runner.

Mäder suffered a brutal fall, on Thursday, in the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, during the descent of the Abulapass, when, also risking his life, Juan Ayuso was flying at 100 kilometers per hour towards victory. He fell unconscious at the wet bottom of a ravine. They tried to revive him on the spot and he was airlifted to Chur hospital. He survived the night, but a few hours later, he passed away. In Switzerland, in his country, his cradle and his grave.

More cyclists die than climbers. And what motorcycle and Formula 1 drivers. And what bullfighters. It is true that cyclists are more numerous than bullfighters. But they don't have half a ton of hostile beast in front of them, armed with horns like razors. The bullfighter protects himself with deception. Cyclists, with nothing. In any case, with their skill and with luck, when they have it. They also lose their lives competing and training. Or they are about to, like Cris Froome or Egan Bernal.

The strange, the abnormal, the miraculous is that no more irremediable misfortunes happen. These men are perched on increasingly lighter, more schematic, more concise machines. They look like riders in the air. Rolling sheets of rolling paper. They ride on a thread, on an edge…. razor. They are the body, the bumper.

The list of victims is endless and of all times; and the reasons, various. It affects great champions, middle-class runners and gregarious, all equal in fatality: Serse Coppi, Ottavio Botecchia, Stan Ockers, Tom Simpson, Fabio Casartelli, Andrei Kivilev, Wouter Weylandt, Bjorg Lambrecht, Michele Scarponi…. And many Spaniards: Francisco Cepeda, Francisco Alomar, José Luis Talamillo, Valentín Uriona, Manuel Galera, Juan Manuel Santisteban, Antonio Martín, Manuel Sanroma, Ricardo Otxoa, Xavier Tondo, Isaac Gálvez (at a velodrome), etc., etc.

Professional since 2018 in the ranks of Dimension Data, Mäder had been hired in 2021, until this 2023, by Bahrain Victorious. He had seven victories, including, in 2021, a stage in the Giro and another in, again in his life, the Tour of Switzerland. Also in 2021 he finished fifth in the Vuelta a España and won the youth jersey. He still had a long career path ahead of him.. But it is already known that death ends what you are and what you could become.

This Friday, in tribute to Mäder, the participants in the Tour of Switzerland only contested and neutralized the last 20 kilometers of the sixth stage. “This is how we will always remember you, with a big smile on your face… We run for you, Gino,” the organization said through its account on the social network Twitter, accompanying its text with a black and white photo of Mäder.

SPAIN

The Court refuses to judge Granados for a branch of Punic in which the judge included him "by mistake"

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The National Court has upheld an appeal by the former general secretary of the Madrid PP and former mayor of Valdemoro Francisco Granados and has revoked the decision of the investigating judge Manuel García Castellón to send him to trial along with 20 other people in piece 5 of the Púnica case, referred to to irregularities in the hiring of city councils in Madrid towns.

The magistrates of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber are hearing the appeal of the former counselor of the Community of Madrid in which he pointed out that the facts that have been investigated in that piece occurred between 2010 and 2014, that is, after he had left the mayor's office of Valdemoro and, even, in some cases, when he had already left politics. And he added that he had not been asked at any time about the facts of said separate piece.

In its report, Anticorrupción had supported Granados' claim, understanding that his inclusion in that piece was due to the “error of transferring the appellant's information from pieces 4, 8, 10, 11 and 12 in which he appears as investigated and participated nuclear in the acts of corruption investigated there”.

In its resolution, the Chamber emphasizes that the issue is not “trivial” since it has already had to rule on another similar case in which “an investigated person was included in the order for transformation into proceedings in a separate piece in which no was investigated.”

“It seems clear that the inclusion of Mr.. Granados Lerena has not been correct according to the explanations of the appeal, paid by the Prosecutor's Office”, concludes the court presided over by magistrate Ángela Murillo.

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The latest forensic report once again advises against Griñán entering prison

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The latest report issued by the Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville once again advises that the former president of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio Griñán, remain out of prison to treat himself with prostate cancer..

A coroner has re-analyzed the state of health of the former socialist senior official to determine whether or not he should go to prison, as the majority of those convicted of ERE fraud did months ago last January. And his opinion points out that Griñán suffers from a “very serious illness and with incurable conditions”, which makes his admission to a penitentiary center inadvisable.

In his opinion, the case of the former president conforms to the terms indicated in article 80.4 of the Penal Code, which admits the possibility of suspending the prison sentence without further requirement when the convicted person suffers from a “serious and incurable” disease. “.

It is not the first time that the coroner has ruled in favor of treatment outside of prison for Griñán. But the sentencing court, which is now in charge of executing the sentence, asked him for more specificity in some aspects of his opinion, in view of the doubts that had been raised in the private prosecution and the Prosecutor's Office, which must assess the report.

For this purpose, the Court of Seville asked the Institute of Legal Medicine for a new report with the additions that were claimed and the coroner in turn requested additional information on the latest medical examinations that the patient was going to undergo, a request that the The court denied it because it considered that it already had sufficient information to make a decision.

This tug-of-war and this to-and-fro of reports (requested from both the Institute of Legal Medicine and the prison medical services) on the state of health of the former president of the Board has been taking place since the Hearing of Seville will order the entry into prison of those firmly convicted by the Supreme Court in relation to the main piece of the ERE case.

At first, the Court of the Court of Seville resolved that the execution of the sentence be postponed until Griñán completed a treatment with radiotherapy. Subsequently, once that phase was over, the pronouncement of the medical experts was again required..

The coroner points out on this occasion that the disease has not subsided and that the patient presents some side effects to the treatment, such as fatigue, which could force continuous transfers to the hospital.

In addition, he adds that it is not just about the fact that he can or cannot receive medical services in prison, a circumstance that the prison itself has already assessed, highlighting the problems that prisoners' trips to the hospital sometimes entailed..

Rather, certain environments can increase the “danger of infections” in “people with a depressed immune system” as a result of the disease and the pharmacological therapies they receive, in addition to age (77 years).. All of this makes clear, in the forensic opinion, “the difficulty of a prison dynamic.”

Now, after this new report from the coroner, both the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution must pronounce once more before the Court makes a final decision.

The rest of those sentenced to prison for the ERE case entered prison in the first days of January, except for Agustín Barberá, who postponed his entry until April also for medical treatment. Another exception was that of Juan Márquez, who faces a minor sentence that has been suspended.

Among those who are already inmates was the former employment counselor, José Antonio Viera, who this week it was learned that he has been granted a third degree regime, also due to a serious illness. The rest of the sentence will be served from the social integration center (CIS) in Huelva.

HEALTH

This is the life and training of the best bodybuilders in Spain: "In the volume phase I reached 134 kilos"

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Coleman and now, Chris Bumstead are some of the men who have raised the name of Mr.. Olympia to make it the biggest bodybuilding competition in the world. This tournament was created in 1965 by Joe and Ben Weider, who announced it as the new event with which the Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFFB) could change the history and dimension of this sport.. Since then, and over the past six decades, hundreds of men (and women since the 1980s) have pushed their physiques to unimaginable limits to win the highest decoration in the world of bodybuilding.

It is so prestigious that the fact of being able to step on the stage of Mr.. Olympia surrounded by the best physicists on the planet is already a titanic effort for all its participants. To access, first of all, they must obtain a PRO-CARD by competing against the best international bodybuilders in the amateur field and, after that, obtain a “direct pass” by winning any of the professional tournaments that are held during the year.

The next event of this nature will take place in Alicante, on June 17 and 18, and there Joan Pradells, the most mediatic bodybuilder in Spain, will fight to obtain a place for the next Mr.. Olympia in her second year devoting herself fully to bodybuilding. Pradells, despite competing in the Open category (without weight limit), seeks to follow in the footsteps of Ángel Calderón, the best national bodybuilder, who made history by finishing second in the 212-pound category (96 kilos of maximum weight) in last year's event.

Ángel Calderón in competition On loan Food and training

Both dedicate their lives to the development of their bodies, alternating volume phases, in which they increase their muscle mass, and definition phases, with which they adjust their physical condition to the demands of the competition.. “The volume phase occurs when you are out of season, away from the competition, and the definition phase takes place when you are closer to competing. In volume what I do is a caloric surplus. I usually eat rice creams, protein powder, rice, red and white meat, fish such as salmon, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yogurts and fruits, practically the same as in definition, but in extreme amounts.. In addition, I train a lot and gradually increase my body weight, which means eating more and more,” explains Pradells, who has reached 134 kilos in this process.

Joan Pradells during a training session on loan

Calderón, due to the weight limits of his category, controls the development of his physique in volume to reach 96 kilos, a figure that each year, he admits, is more difficult for him to reach: “I cannot make a volume to get to 115- 120 kilos, because then I have to give 96. So what I do is a controlled volume, measuring carbohydrates and proteins so as not to gain weight.. Even so, I usually stand at 110-111 kilos. In addition, my weight gains are usually quite clean, with hardly any fluid retention, which is why it is not particularly noticeable and it is more difficult for me to lose it,” he explains.

Ángel Calderón during a training session on loan

And it is that in that he conquered the definition, in losing the excess kilos so that the muscle comes to light and can be observed in its full form. Both begin this phase a few months before competing, something they usually do “two or three times a year” and in it they reduce the amount of carbohydrates they eat and increase cardio time in training.

As for these, in both phases, the sessions are long, “about 4 hours a day” and consist of performing the exercises repeatedly, trying to do the maximum number of repetitions, until their bodies say enough is enough, ” to failure” or above.

Mental force

This preparation process, in addition to the incredible physical effort it entails, also implies a high-level mental commitment, since raising their physiques to the limit implies great suffering.

“The process of losing weight is especially screwed up for me, I'm annoyed all day and don't want to look in the mirror, that's why I try to take refuge in my wife and those around me, who already know me and know how to treat me,” he says. Angel Calderon.

Pradells, for his part, has the support of Marta, his girlfriend, who is the main person in charge of his social networks and is by his side at all times.. She explains that living with Joan during the preparation is like doing it with “a premenstrual woman”, since she is “impatient and unstable”, but that, being also passionate about the world of Fitness, in which they met, she carries it ” way better than any other girl who might be outside of this realm and whose boyfriend is a bodybuilder.”

Joan Pradells with Marta, his girlfriend Cedida Compete in Mr. olympia

This hard training process has a clear objective, to reach the stage of Mr.. Olympia. That is where Pradells wants to go at just 26 years old and it is where Calderón, at 41, has already become a regular. The Valencian has competed four times in the largest bodybuilding tournament in the world, qualifying for the final round from his first participation and staying at the gates of victory in the 2022 edition, in which only Shaun Clarida was able to separate him from victory.

The American, thanks to his 1.57 m height, starts with an advantage over Calderón in a category in which weight is so limited. While the Spaniard is obliged to cut his weight by reducing his diet a great deal, Clarida is not even obliged to weigh himself because he always arrives at the competition well below the limit.

Ángel Calderón (center) with Shaun Clarida (right) in the final of Mr.. olympia

“Shaun Clarida, being so short, starts with a certain advantage because in volume he reaches 100 kilos, so he goes out to compete in 86. He does not even need to weigh himself and he goes out to compete at his best physical moment. I have to do the reduction work, in which it is impossible not to lose muscle mass along the way, that's why I don't compete as I would like, which is how I am when I weigh 105 kilos. In any case, I hope to beat him no matter what,” says Calderón.

In addition, he explains that when you arrive in Las Vegas, where Mr.. Olympia, “you hallucinate, because you see yourself surrounded by the best bodybuilders in the world and, although at first they don't know you, after so many years, they greet you and respect you.”

economic benefit

The world of bodybuilding is very sacrificed, not only for the physical and mental, but also for the costs involved. Despite the fact that in the big tournaments the participants who remain in the first places are financially rewarded, the amounts are much less than what is invested by these athletes, since they can spend about 5,000 euros a month to keep their physiques in shape.

For this reason, social networks have become a key tool for them, because there, in addition to being able to show their progress and have contact with their followers, they collaborate with different brands that help them greatly with the economic part.

In this section, Pardells is the dominator in Spain. The young man accumulates half a million followers on Instagram and 300,000 on YouTube, where he uploads a daily video showing his routine and way of life. “After several years dedicating myself to networks, in 2022, Marta and I began to study the operation of each social network and to investigate the way in which we could exploit each of them to the maximum. We are not trying to look for viral content, although it is also important, but we want to lay the foundations of a community through perseverance and showing something beyond training or my physical condition. It's about sharing the whole process, not the what but the how.”

In addition, Joan owns a company called PBS Apparel where she sells fitness related products and is her main source of income.

Thanks to this “boom” on the Internet, Pradells has had experiences such as being invited to programs such as La Resistencia or being interviewed by Jordi Wild on his podcast. However, he assures that “it is not all good”, and it is that both he and Marta have suffered phone calls, visits to their house and countless looks and comments on the street for the simple fact of being who they are.

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Abascal keeps Ortega Smith on the Vox lists, bets on Senator Pepa Millán and leaves Sánchez del Real out

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The dripping of names for 23-J begins. Vox has made public this Friday the first details of the lists with which it will attend Congress in less than 40 days. Santiago Abascal maintains Javier Ortega-Smith, although he goes from number two for Madrid to fourth place for this province.

Vox has designed some continuist lists, with a good part of the main leaders of the party in the first starting positions, although with some unexpected departure, such as that of the deputy for Badajoz Víctor Sánchez del Real. As EL MUNDO reported last Sunday, the party ruled out making “media” signings after the break with Macarena Olona and would search among its regional ranks to prepare the candidacies.

Ortega Smith, who was the candidate for mayor of the capital, was organically relegated last October after being pointed out by Macarena Olona as the cause of the political storm that led to the rupture of the State lawyer and the party. Abascal then promoted Ignacio Garriga as general secretary of the party and put Ortega-Smith at the controls of one of the three vice-presidencies of the formation.

That gesture was understood in the ranks of the formation as proof of the loss of confidence between Abascal and Ortega Smith, who has continued to play an important role at the local level in Madrid. Now he will continue to be a deputy for Madrid despite falling two places on the lists.

The second position for Madrid, the most symbolic as it is just the next after Abascal, falls to the party's organization secretary, María de la Cabeza Ruiz Solas, who has already been a deputy this legislature, and the third will be occupied by the current parliamentary spokesperson , Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros.

The main novelty of the list, in any case, comes with number five: Vox bets on Pepa Millán, one of the prominent faces of the party in the Senate, to make the leap to Congress. The formation has opted for it in recent months and has gained weight in the parliamentary structure of Vox.

Carla Toscano, the deputy who confronted on several occasions with Irene Montero and her equality policies, or Dr. Juan Luis Steegman, who was also a deputy in the previous legislature, also attended Madrid.. Also on the list are Jorge Martín Frías, president of the party's foundation, and Monserrat Lluís, director of Coordination and Social Interaction of the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo.

Who will not be part of the candidacies is Víctor Sánchez del Real, to date one of the prominent parliamentarians of the Vox group in the Lower House. “It has been an honor to take the stage in Congress to say what you would have liked to say,” the former deputy said through his social networks.

For the rest, Abascal takes David García, former leader of the union related to Vox, Solidaridad, to the first position in Alicante, who sounded in his day as a possible head of the list at the regional level. Who ended up being, Carlos Flores Juberías, is confirmed as number one for Valencia in Congress after the pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community was conditioned by the Genoa veto of the law professor, convicted of mistreatment 20 years ago .

Abascal also recovers Jacobo González-Robatto as head of the list for Granada. Coco Robatto was a spokesperson for Vox in the Senate and gained organic weight and media focus during the campaigns in Castilla y León and Andalusia. However, it went into the background after the results in the latter region.

SPORTS

The day after the hero Joselu: Instagram blocked, few hours of sleep and on Tuesday, Real Madrid

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In the final part of a sports career, things can change a lot. Let them tell it but José Luis Mato Sanmartín (33 years old), to whom at that age, that of Jesus Christ, soccer has given him a starring role in the Spanish soccer team, a team that he had not seen even remotely since who is dedicated to this. On the bus leaving the FC Twente Stadion in Enschede, where the team sealed, thanks to him, the pass to the Nations League final, he was the center of attention.

His numbers are indisputable. He has played 81 minutes in three games. In those 81 minutes he has shot five times on goal. He has scored three goals, the crossbar spat another and the Scotland keeper his fifth. simply amazing. What's more, if the game in Glasgow, where he started, is omitted, it can be written that he has scored three goals in three shots on goal playing, in total, against Norway and Italy, a whopping 17 minutes (not counting the additions).

“I'm a hard worker, these things are coming late for me, but I enjoy them like a child”, he said this Friday morning, a happy tomorrow for him, in the sports city of FC Twente. It was a long night for him. “They have blocked me on Instagram, and I don't even know how I have WhatsApp, I don't know how many people I have to answer, they write me numbers I don't know…. But hey, as long as it's for this reason, well, perfect,” he said.

On the pitch still battered from the game, Joselu celebrated the goal against Italy with his wife and children, who in the end, despite the resistance of a security guard, were able to step on the grass with their father. “Family is everything. When things are going well, everyone comes along, but when things are bad, they are the ones who never fail.. They are everything to me and after a hard year…”, and there he stayed, because the hard year, relegation with Espanyol, is ending with a very sweet taste.

and more to come. On Sunday night he will return to Madrid with the team (if the Europa League is won, there will be a party) and, on Tuesday, if nothing changes, he will be presented with Real Madrid, the team from which he left and to which he returns, perhaps , put an end to his career. In fact, his shares have skyrocketed because, if Mbappé can be a reality for Madrid, perhaps Harry Kane's option will be forgotten, and that would place this worker before the opportunity to be the starting nine of a whole Real Madrid.

“Next week is very long,” he joked: “Now what you have to do is beat Croatia.”

SPAIN

The CIS of Tezanos places the PSOE as the first force with a view to the elections of 23-J at half a point from the PP

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The CIS of the socialist José Félix Tezanos predicts that the PSOE will be the force that will win the general elections on July 23 with 31.2% of the votes, thus surpassing the PP by half a point. To the formation led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Center grants a voting intention of 30.7%. Popular and socialists are, according to the CIS, in a technical draw with a slight advantage for the latter.

The barometer for the month of June, first after the regional and municipal elections of 28-M and after the call for early general elections for 23-J, places the Sumar platform, led by Yolanda Díaz, which includes Izquierda Unida , Compromís, En Comú, Más País, CHA, Equo, Podemos and a series of minority formations, the third position with an estimate of 14.3% of the votes. In this way, the platform would surpass the radical right-wing party, Vox, which would obtain 10.6% of the ballots.

Compared to the previous CIS barometer, carried out a month ago, the PSOE climbs two points, while the PP rises 3.5 points. In May the distance between the two parties was 1.9 points and now it is 0.5. With regard to Sumar, the inclusion of Podemos under its umbrella represents a boost of two points. In the May barometer, the CIS gave Yolanda Díaz's coalition a voting intention of 12.3% and now raises it to 14.3.

This barometer corresponding to the month of June has been carried out coinciding with the hangover from the regional and municipal elections on May 28 in which the PP was the clear winner, the PSOE suffered a severe setback and Unidas Podemos practically disappeared from power in the autonomous communities and in the main town halls. A moment in which, in addition to bringing forward the general elections, the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez reacted to the collapse of his party by deploying the discourse of fear of the “extreme right and extreme right” in which he includes the PP and Vox and whose pacts presumably they would be necessary to oust the socialists from territories such as Extremadura, the Valencian Community or Aragon.

Likewise, the survey was carried out in full negotiations of the Sumar platform, led by the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, to form lists for the general elections on July 23 that would provide protection for more than fifteen formations policies, among which Podemos has finally been included, although with enormous reluctance on the part of the purples due to the veto imposed on the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and the spokesperson in Congress, Pablo Echenique.

Despite this unfavorable context for the leftist formations, the Tezanos poll predicts that it will be precisely the bloc made up of PSOE and Sumar that prevails at the general polls. Both formations would achieve 45.5% of the votes together, while the right-wing tandem -PP and Vox- would only reach 41.3%.

According to this survey, after the May elections, the PP and PSOE are in a technical tie with the Socialists slightly in the lead. However, the left would win the elections thanks to the push of Sumar, while Vox stagnates.

As regards the Catalan independence groups, the survey places ERC ahead of JxCAT. Those of Esquerra appear with a voting intention of 1.8% compared to Junts, which has 1.6. In the case of the Basque Country parties, the CIS grants a tie to PNV and EH Bildu, both with a 1.1% vote intention.

HEALTH

Human extraction of water has tilted the Earth by 80 centimeters in 17 years

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By pulling water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have displaced a body of water so large that the Earth tilted almost 80 centimeters to the east between 1993 and 2010 alone.

Based on climate models, new research published in Geophysical Research Letters previously estimated that humans pumped 2,150 gigatons of groundwater, equivalent to more than 6 millimeters of sea level rise, between 1993 and 2010.. But validating that estimate is difficult.

One approach lies in the Earth's pole of rotation, which is the point around which the planet revolves.. It moves during a process called polar motion, which is when the position of Earth's pole of rotation varies relative to the crust..

The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. Like adding a bit of weight to a spinning top, the Earth spins a bit differently as the water moves.

“Earth's pole of rotation actually changes a lot,” Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University who led the study, said in a statement.

“Our study shows that, among climate-related causes, groundwater redistribution actually has the largest impact on rotational pole drift.”

The ability of water to change the Earth's rotation was discovered in 2016 and the specific contribution of groundwater to these rotational changes had not been explored until now.. In the new study, the researchers modeled the observed changes in Earth's pole rotation drift and water movement, first considering only ice sheets and glaciers, and then adding different groundwater redistribution scenarios.

The model only matched the observed polar drift once the researchers included 2,150 gigatons of groundwater redistribution.. Without it, the model had a deviation of 78.5 centimeters, or 4.3 centimeters of deviation per year.

“I am very glad to find the unexplained cause of the rotational pole deviation,” Seo said.. “On the other hand, as a resident of Earth and a parent, I am concerned and surprised to see groundwater pumping as another source of sea level rise.”

The location of the groundwater matters by how much polar drift might change; redistributing water from the mid-latitudes has a greater impact on the pole of rotation. During the study period, most of the water was redistributed in western North America and northwestern India, both in mid-latitudes.

Attempts by countries to reduce rates of groundwater depletion, especially in those sensitive regions, could theoretically alter the shift in drift, but only if such conservation approaches are sustained for decades, Seo said.

The pole of rotation normally changes several meters in about a year, so changes due to groundwater pumping do not risk changing the seasons.. But on geologic time scales, polar drift can have an impact on climate, Adhikari said.

The next step in this investigation could be to look into the past.. “Observing changes in the Earth's pole of rotation is useful for understanding variations in water storage on a continental scale,” Seo said. “Polar motion data has been available since the late 19th century. Therefore, we can use these data to understand variations in inland water storage over the last 100 years. Was there any change in the hydrologic regime as a result of global warming? climate? Polar movement could hold the answer.”

SPAIN

The PSOE presses Díaz to mediate before Colau in Barcelona: "Do you prefer that the mayor is Puigdemont?"

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Just 24 hours after all the town halls in Spain are constituted, the PSOE has made a desperate appeal to try to gain control of Barcelona. Pedro Sánchez's party was the second political force in the Catalan capital after the May 28 elections and could only unseat the candidate on the most voted list, Xavier Trias, from Junts, with the support of the commons and the PP, which crossed vetoes have been drawn with each other.

“The question we ask Yolanda Díaz, who we understand is the leader of this entire movement, Sumar, where [Ada] Colau joins, and also Mr. [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo is if they prefer that the mayor of Barcelona be [ Carles] Puigdemont or Jaume Collboni. That is the challenge,” warned Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, secretary of Municipal Policy for the Socialists, raising pressure on the vice president of his coalition government to mediate before the acting mayor.

In Ferraz, they are trying to put both the PP and its still partners in La Moncloa in the position of deciding among themselves, making possible the investiture as councilor of “an independentista or a constitutionalist”, implying that the president of the Generalitat who called the illegal referendum of 2017 in Catalonia would really be the one who would govern in the city instead of Trias.

The winner of the last municipal elections and the ERC candidate, Ernest Maragall, have finalized an agreement to govern together in Barcelona, but which still lacks five councilors for an absolute majority. This alliance will prosper as long as Collboni's maneuver to obtain the support of the PP and the party of the still acting mayoress for her inauguration does not go ahead.

For its part, the PP has taken the initiative this Friday to try to prevent Trias from occupying the Mayor's Office again. Daniel Sirera has offered the socialist aspirant the support of the popular councilors if he manages to convince the common people to support him in exchange for nothing. That is to say, that they lend their votes to later go over to the opposition, informs Víctor Mondelo.