Yolanda Díaz has signed Agustín Santos Maraver, who currently serves as Spain's ambassador to the UN, as number two of the Sumar candidacy for Madrid, according to the Ser and later confirmed official sources of Sumar.

With this movement, the Vice President of the Government places an independent profile in one of the key positions of the candidacy to promote two things. On the one hand, the inclusion of people outside political organizations, to widen the space and the idea that Sumar has an important part of the citizen movement. The other, that figures with proven experience and management join his team.

Santos Maraver (Los Angeles, USA, 1955) responds to this, a person close to the PSOE who has been in the Spanish diplomatic career since 1982 and who was also head of the Cabinet of Miguel Ángel Moratinos, one of the most prominent foreign ministers. of the stage of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as president.

Santos Maraver has held the position of permanent representative ambassador of Spain to the United Nations in New York since 2018. Previously, he was Consul General of Spain in Cape Town and Perpignan and has held positions in various destinations, such as Washington DC, Beijing, Canberra, Brussels and Havana.. In addition to being a diplomat, he has a degree in Philosophy and Letters and in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid.

With the inclusion of Santos Maraver one of the great unknowns of the candidacy for Madrid is cleared up, although there are still many more to know, both there and in other constituencies headed by Sumar. The Madrid list right now would be in this order: Yolanda Díaz (Sumar), Agustín Santos Maraver (independent), the Saharawi activist Tesh Sidi (Más Madrid), Íñigo Errejón (Más Madrid-Más País) and Ione Belarra (Podemos). The sixth and eighth place are for Sumar, the seventh and tenth are for Más Madrid and the ninth is for IU, which has not yet confirmed its name.

A telephone startled Tania after 5.50 in the morning yesterday. It was his son, who, shocked, notified him that his other two daughters, ages 25 and 15, had been in a traffic accident at kilometer 38 of the M-608 when they collided with another vehicle at Collado Villalba.. “He was driving just a few cars behind his sisters… He told her: 'Mom, the girls have died'. Imagine…”, one of the mother's best friends told this newspaper yesterday, with red eyes, next to the San Miguel Arcángel de Moralzarzal parish.

This woman, Bulgarian like Tania and her two daughters, dressed in rigorous black for mourning. “I have spoken with her this morning [yesterday], but she did not know. I was medicated, dead in life. Who can expect to lose two daughters in the same second? I dare not even put myself in his skin. Now he is in Madrid, in the coroner's…. He had to go to recognize the bodies,” she detailed afflicted.

Beside her, her husband scowled.. “That curve… that damn curve. People always die there. It comes from a fairly long straight… Since we lived here I remember two other deaths in that section.” And he added: “They say that time heals everything… Bullshit. That can't be cured. And when a few days pass it will be worse, after burying them… When I go home and don't see them. And I start to miss them…”, this couple broke up.

Four women die, three of them minors, in a traffic accident in Collado Villalba

Two other minors from Moralzarzal, aged 16 and 13, who also lost their lives, were also traveling in the accident car.. Polina was driving, one of Tania's daughters, who had gone to pick up the three teenagers after they spent the night at the Collado Villalba parties.

They were our friends. In fact, we were with them on Saturday afternoon in Collado. They were very happy, they were full of life,” said a trio of adolescents who went with one of them to the Carmen Martín Gaite school, in the municipality itself.. And one of these kids specified: “I got along very well with the 13-year-old, Erika. I still don't believe it. We have a WhatsApp group and they put that four girls had died, but I thought I wouldn't know them. Until I began to see messages on social networks of “we will miss you”. In the end it was them. It's a huge disgrace.”

“The town is very bad”

While the pain and sorrow were palpable in the environment, chance wanted that yesterday, Sunday, a procession in honor of Corpus Christi went through the central streets of the municipality. “The town is very bad…. It is a tragedy, that God gives strength to these families,” said one of the participants in this Christian festival.

A few meters away, a group of young people hugged and cried for the driver, Polina, well known in the town for running the Arya cocktail bar, next to the bullring.. She was very close to her sister, as some friends of the deceased say. “They had a very good relationship, they were always seen smiling. He was a great person.”

At the moment, the Civil Guard continues to investigate this deadly crash. What is known so far, according to police sources, is that the Toyota Aygo where the four deceased were traveling left the road on the right side and, based on the first evidence, made “two or three sudden maneuvers”.. The car ended up colliding with another in which a 30-year-old woman was traveling, an agent of the Civil Guard itself at the Villalba barracks. She was transferred in serious condition to the Puerta de Hierro Hospital, where she underwent surgery yesterday afternoon after suffering several fractures.

Point where the fatal collision occurred. JAVIER BARBANCHO

“My daughter went to school with one of the girls, everyone here is in shock. And it is not enough that they give three days of mourning. This town has grown a lot in recent years, there is a lot of movement of vehicles on that road, two-way and quite narrow.. I have lost count of the accidents that have occurred on this section, it is a black spot that is also very poorly lit. They have to solve it so they don't have to regret any more misfortunes,” finished off another Moral Zarzaleña, adding her opinion to a wave of complaints about the problems that this road derives from.. Although from the Community of Madrid, they assure this newspaper, that this section is not considered a black point.

Some users took advantage of the announcement of the three days of mourning that the mayor decreed yesterday in the municipality, and that were announced on social networks, to answer virtually demanding measures in this regard.. “At night, the cars go with their high beams, and they blind you if they catch you driving in front,” explained a neighbor. Message accompanied by Beatriz: “Please, studies and solutions so that more people do not die. That these four deaths and all the previous ones do not remain on deaf ears.”

A single movement on the board of the PP lists has been enough for more changes to be triggered. Such is the importance of the starting positions for the general elections. That change has been that of Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who jumps from the ballot for Barcelona to that of Madrid, together with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. During the last months in Genoa there had been speculation that this position would correspond to the president of the PP of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández. But Feijóo not only has not offered him to be head of the list for Barcelona, but he probed him “informally to occupy an unspecified place on the list for Tarragona,” say sources from the national leadership.

And that, of course, means that Feijóo does not want him to continue leading the regional leadership of the party. This is confirmed to EL MUNDO by sources from the main opposition party, who point out that the doubt would be between the former Minister of Health and current spokesperson for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, and the former mayor of Casteldefells, Manu Reyes.. They are the two favorites to lead the PP of Catalonia “in a long-term project” after the party's regional congress. A conclave that is already playing, because Alejandro Fernández was elected in 2018. Although in the national leadership of the party there is no hurry and in any case it would necessarily have to be after the summer.

Feijóo's team values Fernández as one of the best speakers in the party, which is why they would like him to continue in the parliamentary sphere, but they agree that it is necessary to give an organic “impulse” to training in a community that is vital for the PP speech. In fact, in Genoa they believe that “it cannot be repeated” that their party is only present in 227 of the 947 Catalan municipalities. Not a quarter of the total. “We need to be the unifying force of constitutionalism again and occupy the electoral space of Ciudadanos and the PSC,” says a national leader.

offer rejected

Fernández has rejected the offer to work in Madrid as a deputy, and has done so with a strong message. «I would like to thank, with all my heart, the opportunity that my party offers me to return to the Congress of Deputies. But I stay in Catalonia ». These last three words are all capitalized in his Twitter message.. «At the time, I was very critical of those politicians who, at the first difficulty, went to Madrid and left an enormous feeling of abandonment here.. I will not fall into such a mistake,” he added.

The leader of the popular Catalans believes that “after 23-J we are going to relive episodes in Catalonia that will demand a strong voice to defend the rights and freedoms of non-nationalist Catalans”. In other words, he believes that the independence movement will resurface if the PP governs. “It won't be easy, but it's going well for me.. I am not going to abandon you,” he concluded.. The last sentence is also written in capital letters.

Until now, in the PP headquarters they gave Dolors Montserrat the highest percentage of possibilities to replace Fernández in the future. But the good result of Manu Reyes in Castelldefels has improved his chances. The former mayor of this important Barcelona town has repeated his victory and has only one councilor short of an absolute majority in the municipal elections on May 28. And now, after two legislatures of pacts against, he can seek a satisfactory alliance with Som Castelldefels. It is a new party born from a split from the PSC, and it has three councilors whose abstention would be enough to give Reyes the mayor's office.

In the case of Montserrat, she was already the first option that Feijóo considered for the Mayor of Barcelona. At that time, Genoa considered that Montserrat, former deputy secretary of Organization of the PP with Alicia Sánchez-Camacho and member of one of the families with the greatest historical weight among the popular Catalans, could occupy both the leadership of the candidacy for Barcelona and, come the case, the presidency of the PPC.

The current spokesperson for the Spanish PP in the European Parliament, and one of the party's references in Catalonia, is a person Feijóo likes because she would represent a “more sensitive” voice with Catalanism and the business sectors to which he aspires to return to seduce the PP. Although “deep down the candidate will be Feijóo”, they always repeat in the popular direction.

Thieves often appropriate a false identity and use all kinds of tricks to easily gain access to different addresses. This is what is happening in Cantabria. The National Police has warned of a scam by criminals who impersonate personnel from gas, electricity, plumbing companies or television antenna technicians to enter homes, especially those of the elderly, and appropriate valuables and collect data, such as checking accounts.

As explained by the Police, the first step is to make a call to their future victims. Through this first contact, they identify themselves as workers of this type of company and inform them of a future visit to their home for a supposed promotional campaign or to fix a technical problem..

Then comes a series of questions that are intended to collect some personal information about these people.. They ask them questions such as how many people reside in the home, their schedules and routines, as well as other personal data, indicating that in subsequent days they will visit their home.

Special attention to the elderly

In this way they make sure that the people they have contacted will be at home. After a few days, the scammers show up at the victim's home with the excuse that they are going to fix various technical problems.. In addition, they may ask for the account number to return the money for that fraudulent arrangement or revision.. That is the moment they take advantage of to wander around the home and steal some valuable object..

According to the Police, this type of crime is currently having an impact in the region, which is why it alerts citizens and, in particular, the group of older people, so that they take extreme precautions.. They also recommend that, in the event of a call of these characteristics, personal data is not provided and that, in case of suspected fraud, the Police be informed as soon as possible, providing the agents with all the information that is remembered..

Another important recommendation is not to open the door of the house or allow access to it to people who say they belong to household supply companies if it has not been requested (gas, electricity, water or internet technicians).. Nor to those who claim to be technicians, doctors, nurses or health services who come to provide home assistance; nor to those who say they represent the Administration or are food distributors of a large area without having made a prior purchase.

The CIS places the PP as the force with the most votes in the Valencian Community in the next regional elections on May 28, with a direct vote percentage of 21.8% compared to 20.9% for the PSPV. However, the Botànic could revalidate the Government by staying out of CS and maintaining Unides Podem-EU representation in Les Corts, while Vox would achieve a representation similar to the current one.

Specifically, the PP would obtain between 31 and 36 seats; followed by the PSPV as the second force with between 30 and 34 seats, while in third place would be Compromís, between 15 and 19 seats. Vox would remain as the fourth force with between eight and 12 seats and Unides Podem-EU between two and five deputies. Cs would lose his current representation.

In this way, the sum of the left would achieve between 47 and 58 seats while PP and Vox would obtain between 39 and 48 seats.. The absolute majority in Les Corts Valencianes is 50 deputies. In the X legislature of 2019, the PSPV obtained 27 deputies; the PP, 19; CS, 18 (of which 10 ended up going to the group of Unaffiliated); Commitment, 17; Vox, 10, and Unides Podemos, eight.

However, according to the CIS, the PP would be the first not only in percentage of votes, but also the party that increased the most in support, going from the 18.85% that it obtained in 2019 to the 30.7% that it would achieve this 28-M, which would mean 11.8 more points; while PSPV would become the second most voted party with 29%, 5.13 more than the 23.87% it achieved in the last elections.

Compromís would be the third force with the most votes —after CS disappeared— with 18.5% of the votes, and would gain two points compared to the 16.44% it achieved in the previous elections; while Vox rises to fourth position, one more, with 10.2%, although it remains in voting intention compared to 10.44% in 2019.

For its part, Unides Podem-EU would manage to maintain its presence in the Valencian Parliament by overcoming the barrier of 5% -it obtains 6%-, although it drops almost two points compared to the 7.98% of the last elections. On the contrary, CS plummets and from the third position in 2019 it would not manage to enter the Chamber by registering only 2.1% of the votes.

The PSOE of Emiliano García-Page could revalidate in the next electoral stake the absolute majority obtained in 2019 in Castilla-La Mancha by obtaining between 16 and 22 seats, according to the CIS poll of Tezanos.

According to this study, Paco Núñez's PP would be left with between 9 and 11 seats, compared to the 10 it currently has; while Vox would break into the Castilian-La Mancha Parliament for the first time with between 2 and 4 seats in the Convent of San Gil.

For its part, CS disappears and loses the four deputies it has held in this legislature; while Unidas Podemos has options to enter with between 0 and 2 seats.

The PSOE would have 38.4% direct intention to vote; the PP in second position with 18.2%, less than half; and Vox would collect 8.9%. United We Can for its part would be the fourth political force with 4.8%; while CS plummets to 1.2%