That in Spain there are men uncomfortable with the government's feminist discourse is nothing new. Not that many are between 40 and 50 years old. But how little the president must have spoken in the last four years with his friends if he just found out about this. Or how worried you must be about the latest electoral polls so that suddenly it starts to matter so much to you that you point it out to Carlos Alsina in his interview on Onda Cero.

What, to be exact, Alsina asked the President of the Government was because of the statements that Vice President Nadia Calviño had made days before in More than One, explaining that she prefers equality policies that are made from conciliation and not from the conflict, to mark distances with the Minister of Equality. “Does that mean that in this legislature the equality policies directed by Irene Montero have been raised more from the conflict than from the understanding?” Alsina asked Sánchez. And the president did not answer this question directly, as he did not answer almost any other.. He slipped away claiming that some of those speeches have been “uncomfortable” for men. And he thinks “that's a mistake”.

It would have seemed to Pedro Sánchez a few months ago that his friends were making the mistake, when they became uncomfortable with policies that are designed to make a fairer society, now he sees the error in the speech of his own Government. And that they are policies that he himself has defended and approved in the councils of Ministers. Now the one who seems uncomfortable with his own policies is him..

It is easy to imagine the Pedro Sánchez of before, the one who defended that his government was the most feminist in history, explaining to his friends the goodness of his policies and getting them out of their mistake.. But that was another Sánchez. The one now seems more concerned with how uncomfortable his friends have felt with the speech of his Minister of Equality than with explaining his progress..

This change is revealing.. The president has come to recognize that his government has not been able to explain well that his feminist policies are good for everyone. But instead of taking advantage of the electoral campaign to explain them better to the country, she tells us how much feminism makes her friends uncomfortable, like the day she explained to us how much she liked the ribeye to the point.

But when did the President of the Government begin to realize that his policies made his forty-year-old friends uncomfortable? Did you start to care enough to disown your own minister before or after seeing the electoral polls? And when have you realized that a communication of feminist politics based on conflict instead of conciliation can be counterproductive?

Of all the changes in the president's criteria in the last legislature, and as he himself admitted to Alsina there have been many, this is one of the most risky. Loudly questioning progress on equality for what seems like an opportunistic play-off of the angry man's vote is unlikely to entice the angry man and easily disappoint the rest. Of course they bother. Anti-feminism has existed since feminism began.

This is not to say that Sánchez does not do well to worry about men uncomfortable with feminism or angry men, as Michael Kimmel calls them.. It took a long time to find out. More than a decade ago, in his book Angry white men, this sociologist portrayed that Trumpist voter before Trump, whom the crisis of traditional masculinity makes him feel angry at the loss of privileges and suspicious of feminism..

There are sociological studies, such as those of the political scientist Eva Anduiza, which warn that with each wave of feminist advances there is a rebound effect that also increases anti-feminism. In fact, this rise in anti-feminism or resistance to advances in equality is more relevant for predicting support for the ultra-right than other issues such as the territorial conflict or immigration.. The higher the levels of sexism, the more support for Vox.

There is another interesting finding on anti-feminism that may interest President Sánchez. If instead of learning about this phenomenon from your friends, you want to take a look at the study Sexism and the Far-Right Vote: The Individual Dynamics of Gender Backlash, you'll see that sexism is sensitive to both conflict and political context: just as you can decrease, it can also increase. That is why it is so important how you communicate. Hence, promoting a polarized discourse, based on the existence of good and bad, instead of a greater pedagogy, is not the most helpful to curb the risk of anti-feminism advancing.

So this phenomenon of angry men is not new. That is why it is so strange to see Sánchez suddenly more concerned with how uncomfortable his friends are than with better explaining his feminist politics to them. If it is not electoral opportunism, it is clumsiness. Or both things.

Now that the political-media left is scandalized because a bullfighter becomes vice president of the Generalitat, it makes sense to evoke the libertarian figure of Melchor Rodríguez, mayor of Madrid in a period as brief as it was convulsed (1939) and… lucky bullfighter unequal.

His bullfighting —and biographical— performance can be identified in the third volume of Cossío. And on page 810, where both the place of birth (Seville, 1893) and his professional adventures are evoked, including moonlighting as an altar boy at the Seville Hospice, tinker, bodybuilder… and bullfighter..

He presented himself as a novillero in 1915. And things went well for him in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, but the ups and downs and goring discouraged his future. Especially after the horrifying fuck he suffered in Madrid the afternoon of his presentation (1918) in the extinct arena of Tetuán de las Victorias.

There were others —from Seville to Algeciras— that exhausted the value of the bullfighter. And that predisposed his interest towards politics. Melchor Rodríguez defined himself as a unionist and anarchist, although he also agreed to exercise institutional responsibilities. He arrived in time to become mayor, but his reputation as the “red angel” stems from his humanitarian work as a prison officer.. He saved many lives in the death throes of the Civil War, he intervened in as many executions. And he had at his disposal the opportunity to join the Francoist nomenclature, but he declined the proposals in favor of clandestine union activity that the regime observed rigorously… and indulgently.

The personality and courage of Melchor Rodríguez prevailed over the frontism, to the point that the life sentence that occurred in the summary trials of 1939 was “dissolved”, first with a punishment of 20 years and later with the mediation of a “pardon” in which General Agustín Muñoz Grandes intervened. The allegation of the Francoist officer recalled the determination with which El ángel rojo had been involved in the salvation of Spaniards involved in both sides. Including personalities of the reputation of the goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora and the journalist Bobby Deglané.

The official communism of exile considered him a collaborationist, but Melchor Rodríguez was never aware of Franco's gifts. He ended up on the prison walls up to thirty times, not for joining the anarcho-syndicalism movement, but because he was belligerent in defending the rights of prisoners convicted during Francoism..

Melchor Rodríguez had become a stubborn and tolerated nuisance. And in a bohemian character who both wrote lyrics for cuplés and pasodobles as he gracefully frequented the Plaza de Las Ventas.

The red angel would have been a good bullfighting nickname. The young teacher maintained that one can die for ideas but not kill for them. And he was close to losing his life in the bullrings and outside the arenas. He bragged about his scars. And he would have done it even more if he had known that he was granted state funerals when he died in 1972.

It was the way to recognize the human and humanitarian category of the last republican mayor of the town and court. And to justify the posthumous Medal of Honor that was awarded to him by the Madrid City Council last January at the initiative of Ciudadanos. The past of Melchor Rodríguez is being “reviewed” in a well-deserved canonization process. And it will be impossible to remove from the story the pride and enthusiasm with which the angel of fire boasted of having dressed… in lights.

The government agreement in Náquera (Valencia) between Vox, winner of the elections, and the PP includes measures such as the removal of LGTBI flags from official buildings and replacing concentrations against sexist violence with acts “against all violence” or “against the violence”.

This is clear from the agreement that Vox has shared on its social networks and that has allowed the investiture of Iván Expósito as mayor of this town of 7,700 inhabitants last Saturday. Vox has obtained 4 councilors and the PP, 3 in the municipal elections of May 28.

Among the points of the agreement are the “promotion of constitutional values” and the commitment not to place LGTBI flags on balconies and facades of municipal facilities.. Point 16 also includes: “Replace the concentrations of 'no to sexist violence' with 'no to violence' or 'we condemn all violence'.

Other points are the “celebration of the day of the Constitution and Hispanic Heritage” in the municipality, alluding to December 6 and October 12, or the “adjustment of the municipal subsidies policy” with the “suppression of those that do not have a marked social, sports, cultural function” and those intended “to finance pro-independence and pan-Catalan entities”. Also established as a point of the agreement is the “cutting of socially unproductive political spending, reviewing the items of institutional advertising and superfluous expenses”, and the delegation of powers in matters of institutional communication, networks and the press will be in the hands of a Vox councilor.

In addition, the “institutional neutrality in the cultural sphere”, the “defense of Valencian traditions and culture as well as the popular festivals of the municipality” and the “defense of property against illegal occupation” are agreed..

In the Government team, one of the four Vox councilors will have the powers of Bullfighting Traditions and Celebrations, Institutional Communication, Protocol, Heritage, Water, Agriculture, Hunting and Livestock. Another of them will have the powers of Local Administration, Family, Life and Senior Citizens, Urbanizations and New Technologies, while the third of the mayors will have Social Welfare, Human Resources, Health, Education and Citizen Attention and the mayor will have powers of Treasury, Citizen Security and Internal Regime.

Among the councilors of the PP, the powers of Town Planning, Public Works, Municipal Services, Sports, Parks and Gardens, on the one hand, Emergencies, Youth, Culture and Festivals, on the other, and, finally, Tourism, Employment, Local Development, Commerce, Industry and Fairs.

From the PSPV-PSOE of Náquera they have considered that this agreement is “the pact of shame and hate”, the result of “the duo of the right and the extreme right that turns Náquera into a laboratory for policies of discrimination against collectives Victims of Greater Violence”. Likewise, they have invited the residents of the town to place rainbow flags on their balconies and windows, “with the colors that the new government denies to all of society.”.

The Prosecutor's Office requests 18 and a half years in prison for the former councilor of the Coalition for El Bierzo (CB) in the Ponferrada City Council (León) Pedro Muñoz, accused of throwing his wife, Raquel Díaz, off the balcony of the house they shared and causing injuries that have left her in a wheelchair. In its previous qualifications, the Prosecutor's Office accuses Muñoz of five crimes, although in the case of attempted homicide the mitigation of “regret” is applied since the defendant called the regional emergency service 1-1-2 when the event occurred and placed to the victim in a position of security, since he is a nurse by profession.

In any case, this possible repentance does not reduce the requested prison sentence, but rather increases it by two years, since it speaks of aggravated injuries.. In total, the coroner located 17 injuries on the victim's body after the event. The Prosecutor's Office maintains that Raquel Díaz was the victim of “continuous mistreatment” for which it also recognizes psychological violence, and also accuses Muñoz of a crime of insults and threats for the insults to which the victim was subjected..

In total, to the twelve years in prison for the crime of attempted homicide that Muñoz is accused of, three are added for the habitual violence to which he considers that the victim was subjected from the beginning of the relationship and penalties for the violence psychic and threats. In addition, the Public Ministry requests the removal of the victim for 24 years, without maintaining communication with her by any means, and requests compensation for Raquel Díaz of 1,120,000 euros for civil liability, an amount to which is added the payment of 74,000 euros for the Sacyl health care services and 48,000 euros for the health system of Castilla-La Mancha for the care he received at the Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo.

Among the people who will testify in the future trial, the Prosecutor's Office plans to hear the testimony of Raquel Díaz, who is currently secretly admitted to a residence so that her attacker cannot locate her, since after spending two years in preventive detention, Muñoz is on probation. After learning of the Prosecutor's document, the Bercianas Feminist Association has rushed to call a rally this Tuesday, at nine o'clock at night in the Ponferrada Town Hall square, against that “repentance” that the Public Prosecutor speaks of..

stopped in 2020

Muñoz was arrested on June 1, 2020 by the Civil Guard accused of a crime of sexist violence after his wife was admitted three days earlier, in serious condition, to a hospital in León. In the framework of the open investigation to determine the cause of the injuries suffered by the woman, the Civil Guard took a statement from Muñoz who explained that his wife had suffered a fall in a house in Toreno (León) where they were undergoing the imposed confinement by the coronavirus.

Although the councilor assured that it was an accident, the investigations led to his arrest due to some evidence that called into question his version of events and pointed to an assault and the Investigating Court number 5 of Ponferrada, with jurisdiction over violence against woman, then decreed that Muñoz be admitted to prison without bail for alleged mistreatment of his wife.

Two men aged 60 and 61 have been injured by bruises and head injuries when the roof of a restaurant collapsed in the Alicante municipality of Santa Pola.

The Emergency Information and Coordination Center (Cicu) has reported that the event occurred around 1:50 p.m. on Marqués de Molins street, where a basic life support unit and a Primary Care doctor have attended..

There, the medical services have assisted one of them, aged 61, with a head injury and another, aged 60, treated for head injuries.. Both men were subsequently transferred to the General University Hospital of Elche in the basic life support ambulance.

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will fulfill his promise and confirms that there will be mascletá in the capital of Spain. This was stated this Monday at the press conference after the first Governing Board of his new term after winning the municipal elections on May 28 with an absolute majority.

It is an initiative with which the mayor committed himself on March 15 during his visit to the Almirante Cadarso commission during the Fallas in Valencia, where, in addition, he was able to enjoy the pyrotechnic shot from the balcony of the City Hall.

Almeida agrees to organize a 'mascletà' in Madrid if the Popular Party candidate for Mayor of Valencia becomes mayoress in the May elections pic.twitter.com/o8mKvkB5jS

— Europa Press (@europapress) March 15, 2023

At that time, Martínez-Almeida told María José Catalá, at that time a PP candidate for mayor of the capital of the Community, that if he won the elections and governed in the capital of Turia, he would celebrate the mascletá in Madrid. “We are going to celebrate in a big way, because I made the commitment last year with María José that if she were mayor there would also be a mascletá in Madrid,” said the Madrid mayor..

“Madrileños will like it a lot”

Now, after the elections, Martínez-Almeida was determined to fulfill his commitment. “It is a good way to strengthen relations between Madrid and Valencia and bring one of the most significant events that the city of Valencia has,” he said on Monday..

In this sense, the popular mayor predicted that the mascletá will be one of the events that “Madrileños will like a lot” and that, at the same time, “it will make us Madrileños go even more than we already go to Valencia”.

Likewise, the popular mayor stressed that Madrid is the capital of Spain and, therefore, “we are open to the entire national territory”. In this sense, he pointed out that “practically every day, we receive an infinite number of activities from other places”.

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has asserted that “discussing whether or not to hang the LGTBI flag at the Palacio de Cibeles during the MADO celebration shows that “there is no problem with Pride in Madrid”.

“To all those who discuss whether or not to hang the flag of the LGTBI movement, with all my respect to that flag, I will tell you that if that is the problem, then there is no problem with Pride in the city of Madrid”, has transferred to the journalists upon their arrival at the headquarters of CEIM.

This has been pointed out by the councilor after learning that the City Council of the capital will not place the LGTBI + this Pride flag on the facade of the Palacio de Cibeles, which will be illuminated, like the fountain that pays homage to the Greek goddess, with the colors of the rainbow.

Martínez-Almeida has highlighted that “the Cibeles façade, of 2,800 square meters, and the Cibeles fountain will reflect the flag of the LGTBI movement, therefore, Pride will be held in exactly the same conditions in which It has been celebrated since José María Álvarez del Manzano brought it”.

On the other hand, he stressed that the celebration of MADO will have “the full and absolute collaboration of the Madrid City Council”. “We have always defended, because it is one of the great events that are held each year in Madrid, that it transmits an image of Madrid as a free, open, tolerant and diverse city, and therefore that it has the support of the City Council”, has abounded.

The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday a grant of 30 million euros aimed at fighting poverty and financing the basic benefits of social services in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.

As reported by the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, since 2021, and with this new amount, the department headed by Minister Ione Belarra has allocated a total of 95 million euros to the island region for this purpose..

Specifically, Social Rights specifies that one of the actions that the Government of the Canary Islands must develop will be to implement policies to alleviate poverty, particularly child poverty, with the reinforcement of benefits, including information and guidance for access to resources and benefits economic.

At the same time, it adds that it must co-finance the regional minimum income and the citizen income; improve training and job placement opportunities for the young population through the development of second-chance schools and facilitate access to economic benefits, particularly the regional minimum income and the IMV.

Likewise, the Ministry indicates that with these funds it will be possible to reinforce the economic aid and benefits destined to cover the basic needs of food, clothing, housing, education, culture, oral health and the income of those people who are beneficiaries of insufficient or below economic benefits. of the poverty line.

Likewise, they may be directed to: care programs for homelessness; Shared intergenerational housing projects, reinforcement of the dependency care system, care programs for single-parent families, women victims of gender violence, the Roma population or the LGTBI collective; soup kitchens and programs for the immigrant population, including unaccompanied foreign minors.

Regarding the basic benefits of Social Services, the Ministry highlights that those related to information and guidance, home help, accommodation and coexistence, prevention and social integration and social cooperation and promotion of solidarity can be reinforced..

In addition, it highlights that actions that involve the digitization of procedures and new forms of remote care may be financed. All these possible lines of work are framed in the Canary Islands Program to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion, linked to the National Strategy for the Prevention and Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion 2019-2023.

The actor Antonio de la Torre closes the Sumar list in the province of Malaga, headed by Toni Valero, coordinator of IU Andalucía. De la Torre (Málaga, 1968) will be present in Sumar's candidacy for the Congress of Deputies, although he will do so symbolically, in last place, so it is difficult for him to achieve representation.

This Tuesday the complete lists of each circumscription have been published, which incorporate curious names, such as that of De la Torre in Malaga, that of judge José Castro, who investigated the Nóos case, in the Balearic Islands, or the writer Remedios Zafra in Madrid.

De la Torre, star of films such as El Reino, La trenchera infinita, May God forgive us or Caníbal, has a degree in Journalism and came to work on Canal Sur Radio and Canal Sur Televisión, presenting sports news. The first role he played in the cinema was in The worst years of our lives (1994) and success came on television with Padre coraje (2002)..

He has been nominated for the Goya Awards fourteen times, becoming the Spanish act with the highest number of nominations, and has won them twice: in 2006 for Azuloscurocasinegro and in 2019 with El Reino.

De la Torre has never hidden his left-wing ideological orientation and on numerous occasions he has spoken publicly to support politicians such as Ada Colau (Barcelona en Comú) or Yolanda Díaz, the promoter of the Sumar confluence, which now has the actor in his new political project.

The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday the Plan of Actions against forest fires for the summer and the remainder of 2023 taking into account a “spirit of adaptation to climate change”, which is why the device was brought forward almost two months, and which includes a set of support measures for the autonomous communities, those competent in the fight against fire.

This was announced by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska during the conference after the Council of Ministers, where he recalled that “among the highest priorities” of the Government is the fight against climate change and its consequences, which have demonstrated their ” terrible destructive potential” on towns, fields, cities, livestock and agricultural exploitations and on the natural heritage of the different regions of Spain.

For this reason, he recalled that on April 28 the State Committee for Coordination and Management of the State Plan was established on April 28, a month and a half before the usual dates. Marlaska highlighted that according to the European Information System on Forest Fires, in Spain more than 300,000 hectares burned in 2022 and it became the country with the largest forest area destroyed by fire, adding that the number of large forest fires (more of 500 hectares) was three times higher than the average of the last ten years.

In addition, it has specified that last year the State Security Forces and Corps carried out preventive evacuations of the population in 94 forest fires that affected more than 30,200 residents and four people lost their lives in these fires.. “This is what we are facing”, said the Minister of the Interior, who has assured that the Government has agreed to put “all the necessary means to face this scenario and protect citizens, their lives and their property”..

fire plan

Specifically, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge will contribute the Forest Fire Brigades (BRIF) and up to eleven high-capacity seaplanes operated by the 43rd Army Air and Space Group of the Ministry of Defense.. Interior will make available the troops of the State Security Forces, 1,400 troops from the Military Emergency Unit who will be dedicated to the direct fight against fires and personnel from the General Directorate of Traffic, among other means such as other logistical and operational support that might be necessary.

The fire campaign will be coordinated by the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior will coordinate the management of the means with which the General State Administration supports the regional fire-fighting devices. On the other hand, the minister has said that the National Police actively participates in the fire-fighting plans in force in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Galicia, Navarra and the Valencian Community..