Airports witness the most surreal situations. This time it was the turn of the Málaga-Costa del Sol aerodrome. A man who had missed a flight decided to jump from a 'finger' —the walkway that connects the terminal with the plane door— to the runway to try to catch a plane bound for Morocco because its boarding was already closed.. The Civil Guard has denounced the protagonist of this event.

In the images of the incident, which have already gone viral on social networks, you can see how a man, visibly upset, arrives late for his flight boarding and, before the astonished gaze of the passengers, who have already boarded the plane, and the security personnel, wave their arms and assure that they are going to jump from the gangway, which had already been disconnected, so there was no longer any possibility of accessing the plane.

This has happened at Malaga airport: pic.twitter.com/9lXOmTU8UT

– Miguel D (@M1gu3lDomeque) June 15, 2023

The individual bypassed the access control and despite the warnings from the workers, he was about to get off the platform and ended up falling on his back.. Already on the ground, the man does not try to escape and lies down on the track again suffering from the blow to his back.

To a city in Morocco

The Civil Guard of Malaga has explained that the operational agents at the Malaga airport acted in accordance with the protocol established in these situations and identified this person, proceeding to denounce him for an infringement of the Aviation Safety Law. The same sources have not reported the specific day on which the events occurred, nor the airline or the exact destination, but they have specified that the affected flight was from Malaga to a city in Morocco..

Yolanda Díaz files for the Add campaign to the highest economic manager of Podemos, Nacho Álvarez, brain and face of the great proposals of the party in this matter. He has also been the party's main technical negotiator in the talks on the three general budgets approved in the legislature, and a purple leader with a seat in the executive and in the State Citizen Council, the highest management body. In fact, Álvarez was present, in the center of the image, during the televised speeches by Ione Belarra and Irene Montero this Saturday, when the purples assumed a “modest” role in the face of the general elections of 23-J, they staged their acceptance of the exclusion of Montero in lists and entrusted the future of their “main political asset” to the results of the elections.

Díaz's party has made the signing public this Monday, through a message on the social network Twitter. “He will be the spokesman for Sumar in economic matters and will direct the proposals in terms of social, economic and welfare state policies,” reads the message.. In a subsequent press conference, Díaz has boasted that they are “nurturing the Sumar team with top-level professionals”, and has assured that Álvarez will be the main representative of Sumar on these issues. “He will not only be the spokesman for Sumar, but the person who pays for the debates on this matter,” he said.. A posteriori, Sumar has specified that his work will be limited to the campaign. From his environment they specify that he will continue to be a member of Podemos and its Executive.

@nachoalvarez_ joins the Sumar team!

He will be Sumar's spokesman in economic matters and will lead the proposals in terms of social, economic and welfare state policies.

We need an economy designed by and for the people.

— Add (@add) June 19, 2023

It will not go on the lists, and the vice-president's team has ensured that the main reference for her formation in the future parliamentary group will be Carlos Martín, number six in the candidacy for Madrid. For months, when the discrepancies of Podemos with Díaz began to reach a level of decibels hitherto unexplored, in his organization, but also among the forces related to the Díaz platform, there had been speculation about the possible leap from Álvarez to Sumar. In substance and form, his speech is more similar to that of Díaz than to that of the members of the leadership of Belarra.

Before Vistalegre II, the Congress that consolidated the split of the party into two parts, between those related to the theses of Pablo Iglesias and those of Íñigo Errejón, Álvarez and Carolina Bescansa opted for a kind of third way that promoted misgivings among the leadership. After the congress, the purples once again counted on him as the first sword in economic matters, and Iglesias appointed him Secretary of State as soon as he arrived at the ministry, in January 2020..

The Secretary of State, whose capacity for work is more than recognized among purples, is a doctor in International Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, a professor in the Department of Economic Structure at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a researcher at the Complutense Institute of International Studies.. He is also, since 2002, a career civil servant of the body of Secondary Education teachers of the Community of Madrid for the specialty of Economics, today on leave.

Their contributions have been key to developing proposals that range from the borderline universal basic income to the minimum vital income, currently in force, but dependent on the Ministry of Social Security.. It has always been the wild card of Podemos for negotiations —since Iglesias left, side by side with Díaz's team—, regarding tax issues, but also about pensions. He has been the strong man of the purples in this matter almost since the birth of the party.

The high price of housing in the Balearic Islands has caused no official to choose the archipelago as a destination. Those who are forced, because they have no choice, leave as soon as they can. Those who resist do so with significant work overloads and diminished attention to the citizen. While the population has gone from one million people to 1,200,000 in recent years, public employee positions have not increased. According to the UGT, between 800 and 1,000 permanent workers are needed on the islands to avoid “the collapse of the Administration”. The Ministry of Finance and Public Function influences the continuous increase of places in public employment offers on the islands, but the situation has reached its limit.

The problems experienced by state officials in the Balearic Islands, and therefore its population, can be summarized in two main issues: the high price of housing and the high cost of living in the archipelago make it difficult for anyone to love themselves settle on the island. “Most of us are in the C2 group of the General State Administration (AGE), where about 1,200 euros are charged per month. The people who come here agree with other colleagues to share a flat for two years and, when they can, they leave,” emphasizes Fernando Martorell, secretary of the AGE sector in the Balearic Islands for UGT and one of the spokespersons for Insularidad Digna, the inter-union group created in response to this problem that brings together 21 organizations in defense of workers.

According to the data provided by the trade unionist, the workforce on the islands is 20% below the national average, to which is added a very high staff turnover.. “The collapse is already beginning to be noticed, and it will increase,” warns Martorell. Without going any further, the Traffic office in Ibiza is only open to the public two days a week, when it should be from Monday to Friday. “Of 21 vacancies, there are only seven occupied, but the fact is that of the 11 public service operators that there should be, there is only one, and of the seven people who continue, three are examiners, so any procedure takes forever,” Add.

David Pola, general secretary of the Spanish Police Confederation and spokesman for Insularidad Digna, states that a management such as retirement, which in other regions of the country can take days, even hours, in the Balearic Islands can be delayed for months.

The sectors most affected by this pressing lack of personnel are Social Security, SEPE, Traffic, National Police and Immigration. In the latter, the unoccupied places are around 40%, as added by the UGT. In the case of Social Security, one in five positions is unoccupied, a figure that has doubled in some periods. “And what do they do? Fill it, when they can, with temporary people. that's a patch. They do programs of nine, 10 months or a year, and then they leave”, says Martorell.

Given this point, the Ministry of Finance and Public Function maintains that there has been a “continuous increase in positions in public employment offers, with replacement rates that allow growth with net balances and guarantee a sufficient number of new recruits to be able to distribute to the whole territory”. In addition, they admit that the allocation of places is being prioritized, both in the territory and in those departments that offer direct services to citizens, guaranteeing an adequate distribution to all provinces..

Living in the Balearic Islands, hell

This particular case slows down even more any normal operation of the Administration in the Balearic Islands, for various reasons.. If temporary workers arrive, they will leave and will not take root in the territory, and if people arrive with their position, on the islands they will be taught to function for the first time in the workplace and then, inevitably, they will also leave..

Pola is blunt: “State officials cannot provide the service that we should to the Balearic citizens”. He also locates the genesis of the situation in the high cost of living and housing. In his own words, “living here is hell, most of us earn about 1,300 euros a month and with that it is impossible to make ends meet”.

The seriousness of the situation also depends on each island, Ibiza being the most affected. “In Ibiza, it is impossible to find a home, especially now in the summer period. The owners have seen that the business is for tourist rental and they make winter contracts so that people leave in the summer and come back when it is over”, develops Martorell. The collapse to which the trade unionist refers has left such disturbing images as seeing civil guards sleeping inside vans, according to what was explained by the spokesman.

Figures frozen for a quarter of a century

On the other hand, the high cost of housing in the Balearic archipelago should not be such a big problem when it comes to new civil servants taking root in the region due to the so-called “compensation for residence”. In other words, on their payroll, officials receive an extra to appease said problem.. Complete Pola: “We charge about 70 euros for this concept, which has not been updated for 25 years”.

This compensation also exists for those public workers assigned to the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, although the Balearic Islands would be the region that bears the worst part. “We have asked politicians to carry out a rigorous study of the situation, because this concept was added to the lists in 1965 and we do not know under what criteria,” adds Martorell..

In this sense, the secretary of the AGE sector on the islands also denounces a comparative grievance: “They tell us that Ceuta and Melilla are outside the Peninsula, and perhaps in the sixties that complement made sense for security reasons, but now not anymore. And they tell us about the Canary Islands that it is an outermost territory, which is true, but it also has more beneficial taxation”. Their claim, therefore, focuses on an analysis that reflects the objective criteria that they think compensation for residence should have, such as the price of the home, the price of the shopping cart or the tax regime that exists in the region.

Strike after the summer?

Pola, for her part, warns that the situation is not improving. “The first week of July, 56 new police officers arrive in Palma, and they are desperately looking for a home in which to start their professional career, and most of them would have preferred another destination,” he explains.. The offer is not very encouraging: the cheapest apartment is at 1,300 euros a month, from there up, when the floor of these policemen is around 2,000 euros.

“It is disappointing to work for the State, to end up risking our lives, and then see ourselves doomed to these hardships, when we want to provide a public service in defense of the rights and freedoms of citizens,” adds the representative of the National Police in Insularity worthy.

The situation is so close to collapse, as Martorell himself repeats, that they are waiting for the general elections to go further in their mobilizations. In addition, the Ministry of Finance and Public Function has always given them silence in response, as confirmed by the two spokespersons.. “Sooner or later, if they do nothing, there will be no choice but to go on strike, and the issue of strikes is already on the table,” continues Martorell..

From Insularidad Digna, they have not stopped internationalizing the problem. This is proven by their trip to the European Parliament, where they exposed the situation in which they live. “We are very satisfied, because the petition was left open and they said that they would ask the Government of Spain for explanations of what funds destined for territorial cohesion that Europe sends for this type of issue are spent on,” concludes Martorell..

“Mazón, what about your pact?”. The question is from Alberto Núñez Feijóo; the addressee, the future president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, who became the protagonist of the act in which the PP leader exhibited territorial power in Madrid by gathering his barons. The Galician staged an atmosphere of “cordiality” with Mazón after a week of tension after sealing the agreement with Vox. “He has been affectionate”, comments one of the attendees, who confirms that Feijóo is willing to “put order” in future agreements with those of Santiago Abascal. The wear and tear in political terms of the first coalition after 28-M has been a wake-up call for Genoa.

Feijóo will monitor the negotiations. You cannot repeat “mistakes” such as the denial of sexist violence in the document signed in the Valencian Community. The plan is to return to the original strategy. The barons of the PP will go alone to their investitures and that it is the far-right formation that is portrayed. “Endure the pressure” is the slogan that he transmitted yesterday to the regional leaders who are in talks with those of Abascal. After the act there was, according to popular sources, a meeting to “coordinate the agreements” to share future actions.

The result that the polls produced in each territory will mark the scenarios, but at this moment in both Extremadura and Murcia there is a willingness not to give in to the pulse of Vox. Both María Guardiola and Fernando López Miras are willing to assume the cost of an electoral repetition before sharing government with the extreme right. In the case of Guardiola, the maneuver is risky, since the elections were won by the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara. PP and PSOE tied at 28 seats and Vox achieved five compared to four for Podemos.

The absolute majority is in the 33 deputies. In the match, they consider that the option to govern can be lost if they go back to the polls, but in Guardiola's team there is no doubt that Extremadura will penalize Vox. “María is not going to break her commitment to govern alone. It will not deceive its voters,” they insist. In Murcia, López Miras has the trump card that the PP adds more than the left together. The 21 seats of the popular in the Assembly make it easier for it to become strong. It was already seen in the constitution of the Table, where Vox has been left out. If the elections were to be held again, the forecast within the PP is that they would obtain an absolute majority, by mobilizing the useful vote, as happened in Andalusia,

On another board is the game of Aragon. Jorge Azcón continues in the line of slowing down. Go slowly so as not to give headlines that blow up Feijóo's electoral campaign. There is no problem regarding the constitution of the Assembly, since Vox will have a representative. You have been offered a secretariat, but at the moment it seems “insufficient”. It will be the first procedure, but, except for surprise, the negotiations will not be linked to a hypothetical coalition government, as happened in the Valencian Community.

“No more Vox”, summed up yesterday a member of the popular leadership. The management of the agreements is causing a real headache for the popular leadership. Paraphrasing Mariano Rajoy, internally the global situation of alliances is described as a “mess”. Isabel Díaz Ayuso boasted in the Retiro park before her colleagues of her absolute majority. “I am the baroness”, he even said, according to one of the attendees, who qualified that the “favorite” is the Andalusian, Juanma Moreno, who yesterday came with the greatest territorial power of the PP in Andalusia under his arm. “Feijóo has a personal harmony with him,” recalled one of the barons. The proof is that they ate together with their families at the restaurant De María Félix Boix.

The main issue is not the fear that their voters will penalize them in the general elections, but that the left manages to mobilize their electorate by agitating the speech that Abascal will be Feijóo's vice president. In recent days, both Pedro Sánchez and his ministers have focused the message on the setback of rights and freedoms that a PP-Vox coalition would mean in Moncloa.

To counteract from Genoa, work will be done to spread the message that the PP is a transversal party. It will be valued how they have been able to support the socialists in city councils such as Barcelona or Vitoria to prevent the mayoralties from falling to Bildu or the party of Carles Puigdemont. If a few weeks ago it had been contemplated that the popular councilors would vote for themselves and leave the baton of command to Xavier Trías, after the alliance in Valencia it was “unassumable” to give more artillery to the rivals favoring the sovereignist. From here, the PSOE will be required “responsibility” to avoid depending on the extremes.

The “the trenches are over” that Feijóo promulgated yesterday is a declaration of intent. The leader of the PP will insist in this campaign that the list with the most votes be allowed to govern. The polls continue to show that the only possible partner is Vox, which is why the Galician will question the PSOE so that, when the time comes, it abstains from its investiture. Sánchez does not contemplate it. Post-Sanchism is unknown.

The Huelva neighborhood of El Torrejón was the scene of an unprecedented group crime that is at the gates of trial. This is one of the conflictive areas of Huelva due to drug trafficking, which has witnessed shooting confrontations between rival clans in recent years.. In September 2020 all the alarms went off between Azahar and Clavel streets: the death of AFJ. (nicknamed 'el chino') at the hands of a group occurred in the street, in broad daylight. The telephones of the National Police and Emergencies 112 Andalusia did not stop ringing. This neighborhood of streets named after flowers was a powder keg between races, cries of threats or for help, and a man prostrate on the road.. One of those calls had reported that a person was being stabbed. Now there are eleven defendants.

The Investigating Court number 3 of Huelva, in charge of the investigation, has confirmed the continuation of the procedure by the Jury Court -the case is pending the response to an appeal by the Provincial Court-, considering that there are indications that the investigated acted “jointly, confusedly and riotously”, specifically in his car, an attack in which men and women participated.

In an initial accusation – qualification is pending -, the Prosecutor's Office charges five of those implicated with homicide and the remaining six attributes a crime of serious injuries, while the private prosecution, brought by the victim's family through His legal representative, the lawyer Marcos García Montes, qualifies the participation of all those accused of murder, with treachery of ambush and cruelty.

What happened that day? Between the victim and the defendant whom the investigation points to as the alleged perpetrator of the fatal stab wound, there was a problem due to humidity – both lived in the same building – and some threats would have been crossed, according to the record, one more element in the hotbed of feuds between adversary families. That September 16, the confrontations increased and a brawl broke out: “el chino” was attacked not only with bladed weapons (knives, knives), they also attacked him with sticks, a baseball bat and even a cobblestone while they were followed by the streets, until he was left dejected in the road.

Upon arrival to shield the neighborhood, the National Police found a crowd of people who were throwing all kinds of objects, from stones to chairs and tables, and a man who was trying to revive another who was injured, on the ground, with a knife under his body.

Based on the content of the report, which includes the actions of the Police, as well as the weapons and objects found at the scene, the statements of a witness and the acting agents, as well as the autopsy report and the results of the DNA study, The instructor maintains that “there are more than enough indications that a collective attack took place” against AFJ, in the course of which he suffered various injuries, including one by a knife that caused his death. It considers that, at this procedural moment, the joint participation of those investigated is maintained.

There is a difference of criteria between the accusations. While the legal representation of the family estimates that “all those investigated could have acted in concert to cause the death”, from the Public Prosecutor's Office it is considered that “only some of them acted in such a way while others acted with the sole intention of injuring , contributing to the defenselessness of the victim”.

The instructor emphasizes that the indications of participation of those involved in the attack on AFJ. must be related to the autopsy report, which highlights that the victim had up to 27 different injuries. Different instruments had been used (cylindrical objects, canes, blunt weapons with a knife) with a blade width of about 2.5 centimeters, which stabbed him from behind and hit his heart.. “The injuries seem to have been caused by blows made by different objects and in some cases with great virulence,” he stresses..

As for the situation of those involved, all free, García Montes regrets that “We have requested admission to prison and we have been denied”. The court maintains, in this sense, that the circumstances that were taken into account at the time to agree on the provisional release of those investigated in different resolutions have not changed, and that they are complying with the judicial appeals. “The holding of the appearance -for the initial accusations- does not in itself increase the risk of flight”, he affirms to add that “the social alarm that caused the event cannot be taken into account to modify the personal situation [of the defendants]”.

The court required a bond of 250,000 euros from those investigated in the case to ensure the responsibilities that could be imposed on them. In response to the request for dismissal by the defenses, the court denied it, emphasizing that “the victim could have been attacked by various people, in an excessive way, finally ending his life the specific author of the aforementioned wound caused with a knife while the rest of the group of people was able to actively participate in the aggression in a brutal way, with the aim of attempting against his life, undermining his integrity and/or diminishing the possibility of defense of the aforementioned.”.

The same court keeps two cases open for shootings between families in the neighborhood, without injuries or victims. It was several months before the crime and during 2019, when other shooting clashes between clans took place in El Torrejón.

The historic pro-independence militant Carles Castellanos, arrested on several occasions and accused of belonging to the terrorist organization Terra Lliure (he always denied that condition), will be the protagonist of a “national tribute” that will be paid to him on July 1 at the venue municipal building of the old Fabra y Coats factory, in Barcelona. Castellanos, arrested in the 1980s and 1990s for his connections with the armed organization, was a partner of fellow activist Eva Serra, who died a short time ago.. Currently, he is a member of Poble Lliure, the largest of the parties that make up the CUP. In addition, he is a member of the Catalan National Assembly, of which he became vice president in 2013 and within which he created the critical platform Drassanes, which he later terminated..

The tribute is organized by Poble Lliure and in its claim it highlights that Castellanos is the symbol of “six decades of militancy for independence and revolution”. The party highlighted in a tweet that “today is a very special day because we announce that this year we pay tribute to our colleague and historical reference of the independence movement Carles Castellanos”. Two weeks ago, in the digital Llibertat, Castellanos signed up for conspiracy theories, denied that Spain is a democracy and accused the State of “covering up suspicious crimes (such as the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in August 2017), not allowing them to be investigated”. These theories are maintained by an extremist specter of the Catalan independence movement.

In the same article, Castellanos, who always abused the secessionist epic spirit, says: “If the extreme right were not Spain, we could say that Spain (in all its forms and political expressions) loves the extreme right and appreciates (dirty) work ) that makes him, that allows him to reach the repression where that of his legality does not arrive”. And he ends with a reflection consistent with which he explains, generalizing and extrapolating the reflection, the supposed collusion of Spain with the rise of the extreme right: “The maxim of the regime that is continuing the essence of the Francoist spirit was the well-known 'Spain, before red that rotates', which has become 'Spain, before self-destructed than free Catalonia'. And this is all the plan they have in their heads. What they don't know is that —perhaps unintentionally— they are creating the ideal scenario for our independence and thus digging their political grave.”.

critical of the ANC

This website is the one that provided its server to host the site of the “National Anti-Repressive Conference” held in autumn 2021 and organized by the ANC, Òmnium Cultural and 11 other sovereignist entities. Behind the Llibertat portal are activists related to the CUP and, directly, to Poble Lliure. The portal is edited by the entity Research on Information and Communication in the Catalan Countries, whose president is Marià Miró, councilor of the CUP in Berga and until this month third deputy mayor. But the treasurer is Carles Benítez, one of the historical figures of Terra Liure, arrested in 1982, released in 1985 and arrested again in 1989 for having joined the leadership of the armed organization.. This activist is precisely the co-author of the book History of independence 1979-1994 together with Carles Castellanos, David Bassa and Raimon Soler. Benítez is also a member of Poble Lliure.

Castellanos was one of the founders of the Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional (PSAN) in 1968, which years later suffered several splits. In 1979, he participated in the creation of Independentists of the Catalan Countries (IPC) and the Socialist National Liberation Organization (OSAN), a party that ended up allying itself with Endavant, which today is the core of the CUP. And, in the 80s, he was one of the promoters of the Moviment de Defensa de la Terra (MDT). In the 70s, 80s and 90s, he was arrested on several occasions and accused of belonging to Terra Lliure and occasionally collaborating with ETA. An industrial engineer and linguist, he earned a doctorate in Translation from UAB. As a qualified militant of the ANC, he considers that the civic list that the current leadership of the organization wants to propose is a mistake and a few months ago he warned of the possibility of a split in the veteran civic entity, since he considers that behind the presentation of That list (which, by the way, harms the big parties, including the CUP) includes interests of “personal ambition or simply impulses of a personalist nuance.”.

A report from the information services prepared in full process dissected the main activists of the independence movement, among which included Castellanos. He emphasized that “he provided 15 kilos of gunpowder (according to the terrorists' statements, not proven in the trial) to the members of Terra Lliure Marcellí Canet and Sebastià Datzira, accused of the death of Emilia Aldomà (the only victim of the terrorist organization). Both terrorists, after serving their sentences, were recruited by ERC. Currently, both are civil servants of the Generalitat of Catalonia”. Emilia Aldomà, 62, died when a wall fell on her at her home in Les Borges Blanques, when the terrorist command planted a bomb in the premises of the local courts. The prosecutor said that the gunpowder was provided by Carles Benítez during a meeting in a cafeteria on Las Ramblas on June 23, 1987 and, although he could not prove that Castellanos was integrated into the leadership of the organization nor did he know for what specific event the material was going to be used, he assured that he did know that it was for criminal purposes.

Another tribute from the CUP

The report also mentions Eva Serra, who had been his partner, “arrested on many occasions for crimes of terrorism” and Blanca Serra, the former's sister, “involved in the same activities. Accused of collaborating with ETA in July 1980 and of belonging to Terra Lliure”. The Serra sisters, together with Castellanos, were arrested in 1992, in the framework of the so-called Operation Garzón. Josep de Calasanç Serra, another of the brothers, went into exile in France and was one of the founders of Terra Lliure, although in 1982 he was expelled from the organization due to his moderate views.

On January 28, the CUP also paid tribute to Blanca Serra, who “belongs to a family of long-standing resisters”. The event was attended by a large representation of high-ranking leaders from Cuba, such as David Fernández, Gabriela Serra, Eulàlia Reguant, Maria Sirvent, Julià de Jódar and Basha Changue, who was the mayor of Barcelona on 28-M.

Tributes to Castellanos or Serra are not isolated events: pro-independence circles often promote articles of recognition for terrorists or activists “killed in combat”. Two weeks ago, some circles remembered the “accidental death of the independence fighter Fèlix Goñi 'Bruc'”, who died in 1979. The gloss says of him, “he died accidentally when handling an explosive that was intended to denounce extraditions”. In reality, behind that euphemism is the fact that the activist died when the bomb that he was going to place in the offices of the Renault company in Barcelona exploded.. The sovereignist Twitter account keeps Catalan anniversaries up to date, highlighting the profiles of terrorists. Thus, I remembered a few days ago that “the armed organization GRAPO” placed 4 explosives in ETT offices in Barcelona on June 8, 2000.. He also remembered May 30 that the same day, but from 1981, “a Terra Lliure commando destroyed the TVE repeater in Montserrat”.

remembered terrorists

Estat Català, a Catalan extremist group, honored the activist annually at the place where the bomb exploded. In an appeal a few days ago to celebrate the memorial again, he published a poster from 2012 about the tribute to the terrorist, which included a portrait of the activist, the estelada and the Terra Lliure logo..

Another of the activists publicly honored is Martí Marcó. The ERC Youth dedicated a mural to this pro-independence fighter in Sabadell in which they say that he “marked the independence struggle” and stress that he was a militant of the ERC Youth and that “he was assassinated by the Civil Guard on January 26, 1979 ”. Marcó was trained by ETA in the south of France and they provided him with an arsenal of weapons to strengthen Terra Lliure at the end of the 70s. On January 26, 1979, when he was preparing an assault on an armored van with his commando (which included Fèlix Goñi, Fredi Bentanachs, Quim Pelegrí and Griselda Pineda), he encountered a police checkpoint. Wounded after a shooting, he was abandoned by his companions and helped by some neighbors and passers-by, but he died in hospital two days later, becoming the first Catalan terrorist killed by security forces.. The hard core of the CUP published, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death, posters inviting a tribute and describing January 26 as “Day of the Catalan Combatant”..

Periodically, certain tributes to activists are made on the networks. On May 22, the news echoed that the same day, but in 1999, “Pere Bascompte, historic leader of the armed organization Terra Lliure, returned to Manresa, his hometown, after 16 years of exile in the Northern Catalonia”. It specified the reminder that Bascompte returned “once the legally prescribed causes that he had in the Spanish State”. The truth is that, in 1983, he had been sentenced to 9 years in prison for the kidnapping of Federico Jiménez Losantos, but a judicial error released him the following year, which led to his escape to France.. Precisely, on May 21, the Twitter profile highlighted that in 1981 there was “an action by Terra Lliure against Jiménez Losantos, one of the main signatories of the Manifesto of the 2,300 that sought to divide Catalan society”.

The National Court has informed Iberdrola Generación España SAU, a subsidiary of Iberdrola, that the trial for the alleged intentional closure of reservoirs to artificially inflate the price of electricity will begin on October 17 and is expected to last until December 1.. This is the first oral hearing held in the history of Spain against an electric company for the alleged adulteration of the rate. The Prosecutor's Office attributes to the multinational company chaired by Ignacio Sánchez Galán a crime against consumers and the market.

In addition to Iberdrola as a legal entity, four of its executives will also sit on the bench: the director of Energy Management, ACT; the head of Optimization, Resource Management and Trading, GRC; the head of Asset Management, JLRJ, and the head of Short-Term Markets and Global Generation Management, JPZ. Likewise, together with the Public Ministry, the companies Geoatlander SL, Axpo Iberia SL and Belegi Invest SL, as well as the consumer association Facua, has been present since the beginning of the case as popular accusation..

The facts date back to December 2013, when, in the midst of a dispute with the government of Mariano Rajoy over the tariff deficit, Iberdrola allegedly intentionally blocked the production of its reservoirs to provide less hydraulic energy to the system —the cheapest source that exists- and cause that they had to connect, to meet the demand, their combined cycle plants -one of the most expensive sources-. As a consequence, the electricity rate shot up to 126%. The increase was so stratospheric that the Executive of the PP decided to suspend the auction to avoid final consumers having to pay 10.5%.

The National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) was the first to act due to the alleged irregular practices of the listed company, imposing a penalty of 25 million euros for manipulating the pricing system to increase its profits.. But in 2017 a criminal investigation began, directed by the Central Court of Instruction number 2 of the National Court, which aggravated the possible consequences of fraud and even involved the search of several headquarters of the multinational in Madrid and Bilbao..

Iberdrola has always maintained that the only reason why it produced less hydraulic energy that month of December was that it had rained less than expected and that the forecasts for the following months were not good either.. Likewise, it argues that in the weeks under suspicion it had a buying position of energy, not a seller, for which reason the increase in prices caused it harm..

But CNMC experts have refuted that argument in a report incorporated into the summary, ensuring that Iberdrola had a positive balance that month of at least 569,043 Gwh. In addition, as this newspaper revealed, the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard also found evidence in the records that the giant headed by Sánchez Galán intended to produce much more hydraulic energy than it finally put on the market and that last year previous, with fewer reserves in the reservoirs, contributed a significantly higher production.

The seized documents and witness statements also revealed that the company made decisions to set the price of its energy in informal meetings, verbally, with unknown criteria and without recording the content of the conversations in the minutes.. One of the most lethal testimonies for Iberdrola was the one offered by the Minister of Industry at the time of the events, José Manuel Soria, who expressed his conviction that there was market manipulation..

The investigation phase concluded in July 2021. In November 2022, Iberdrola Generación had to post a bond of 192 million euros to ensure payment of possible liabilities for a hypothetical conviction. The indictments claim astronomical losses from intermediaries and also a huge cost to households.

It is expected that the representative of the company and the four executives prosecuted will testify on October 17 and 18. Between October 24 and November 8, the interrogations of the witnesses proposed by the parties will take place. From November 14 to 28, it will be the turn of the experts and, finally, between November 29 and December 1, the final conclusions will be issued, pending the ruling.

It took Felipe González a year to leave the PSOE general secretariat since his defeat against José María Aznar in the 1996 general elections, and he remained during that period as leader of the opposition in Congress. Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba took eight months to seize organic power since he was appointed candidate for the November 2011 elections by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who denied him the reins in the first instance. In the event of a defeat on 23-J, Pedro Sánchez would still have two years in office ahead, if he wanted to, to lead a transition from the leadership of the party and design post-Sanchism. It would not be unusual for the socialist leader and Prime Minister to hold on to Ferraz's chair, something that has happened regularly in the changing of the guard within the party and that has its echo in the territories. “I am not willing for this trip to end on 23-J,” said Sánchez on Sunday in Dos Hermanas, in a message that fits perfectly with this thesis..

The Andalusian PSOE is a good paradigm that shows how difficult transitions are in the match of the fist and the rose. To the point that he is capable of breaking friendships, as happened to Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán. It was known that the two former presidents of the Board used to go to the movies with their wives on Sundays, but those moviegoing afternoons ended when the relationship between the two cooled down. And he did it because the former Minister of Finance wanted to take over organic power when his predecessor chose him as his successor. And Chaves was not about to do it. Or at least not as fast as Griñán would have wanted..

That caused a bicephaly within the Andalusian PSOE that was not easy to manage. Griñán, today awaiting jail time for the conviction in the ERE case, took 11 months to become secretary general of the Andalusian PSOE since he took office as president of the Board. Griñán himself acknowledged that this duplicity, with Chaves as the organic leader of the party's largest federation and he as head of the regional Executive, was a “problem”.. “What has to be done is that the normal becomes normal in the very legality of the party,” he said in January 2010, a couple of months before becoming general secretary of the Andalusian socialists in an extraordinary congress.

Griñán's successor on the Junta did not let so much time pass and it only took her two months to take over the leadership of the party after arriving in San Telmo. But Susana Díaz did resist leaving the leadership of the party after losing the Junta de Andalucía in December 2018. The woman from Triana controlled the party, already very weakened after having commanded the revolt of the barons that deposed Pedro Sánchez and losing the primaries against the current president of the Government. In the time that he was in charge of the Andalusian PSOE from his defeat until the primaries that ended his leadership, he raised several battles with the head of the party, some very striking, such as the design of the 2019 general lists. It was another organic defeat, since Ferraz ended up imposing his criteria.

Facing 23-J, Sánchez has done the same, although without conflict with Andalusia, since the leader of the party in the community flees from any clash with his leader. The same is not the case, for example, in Aragon, where the impositions of Ferraz and Moncloa have caused a certain resentment among those close to Lambán. It is logical, in any case, that Sánchez wants to have a similar parliamentary group in Congress. And this becomes relevant in the event of a socialist defeat, since the management of the transition is easier if the parliamentary group is similar to the leader. Sánchez experienced in his flesh the problem of having a parliamentary group more akin to his barons than to himself in that investiture of Mariano Rajoy in which the PSOE abstained, with the exception of those faithful to the now Prime Minister.

The elaboration of the lists of the PSOE to 23-J also has reading in this hypothetical transition. The candidacies are plagued by the ministers of Sánchez's cabinet and his closest team, along with those rebounded from the defeat of the municipal and regional elections on 28-M. The socialist leader thus ensures control of the party if the socialist cadres have to leave institutional posts if the PP manages to govern and it is Alberto Núñez Feijóo who stays in Moncloa. This must be understood as a way of guaranteeing that the controls of the transition will be in the hands of Sánchez.

It must be remembered that the last PSOE congress was in 2021, in Valencia, so the organic mandate can be extended until 2025. However, socialist officials admit that the party must face a “change of model”, a kind of catharsis, if the Madrid politician loses. The organic changes in the territories after the fall of barons like Guillermo Fernández Vara, Javier Lambán and Ximo Puig are in the freezer until after 23-J. But there are already those who speak of the need to flee from such a Caesarist model within the PSOE.

Sánchez, upon reaching Ferraz for the second time, after defeating Susana Díaz in the primaries, guaranteed almost absolute power. The leitmotif of his return to organic power was based on the idea that power should be in the hands of the militancy, which raised him to leadership with the apparatus against. For this reason, the socialist general secretary deprived the Federal Committee, the highest body between congresses, of its powers.. It must be remembered that it was the massive resignation of leaders opposed to Sánchez that led to the coup of the barons that toppled the man from Madrid on October 1, 2016.. This possibility is now moving away, with a dome designed by Sánchez in his image and likeness, but within the party they already admit the possibility of turning towards a model with more counterweights.

There were few Aragonese town halls in which surprises were expected when it came to electing mayors. But they have been thermometers of the negotiations to elect the president of Aragon as of next Friday, June 23, when the Table of the Cortes is constituted. And everything indicates that Jorge Azcón, who obtained 28 of the 64 deputies in parliament, can achieve his objective of avoiding Vox's votes in the investiture and forming a monocolor government, even though he has admitted those votes to ensure mayors of relevant populations.

It has not been necessary in the three capitals, where the three mayors took possession of their command rods with their own and exclusive PP votes, even without having an absolute majority in Zaragoza and Huesca. They have needed them to govern towns like Jaca, Utebo, Cuarte or María de Huerva.

Meanwhile, mayors of emblematic places that were from the PSOE and needed the support of minorities to continue in power have seen how the ties that united them were undone and no new ones were tied. Especially significant has been the case of Alcañiz, where the socialist Ignacio Urquizu lost the mayoralty, which the PP won thanks to adding two separate votes from PAR and Vox and the abstention of Teruel Exists. Urquizu, who had already been removed days before from the lists to Congress from the Federal Executive, will continue in the town as leader of the opposition and will take possession of his act of regional deputy. After the forced relief, he regretted the decisions of the PAR and Teruel Existe on the networks.

One of the great disappointments for the Aragonese progressive electorate is being @TeruelExiste_ They are going to opt for abstention, allowing the PP to govern without giving up VOX. This will happen tomorrow in Alcañiz… Alternative majorities could be built and they have given it up

– Ignacio Urquizu (@iurquizu) June 16, 2023

The same as the general secretary of the PSOE Aragón, Javier Lambán, who even on the eve of the municipal investiture plenary sessions came to offer Teruel.. In that offer, he called on the Aragonese to respond to the PSOE proposal, because “it offers dignity”, compared to what the PP could propose, and to maintain the alliance locked in the Quadripartite.

The role of the RAP

But the steps taken up to now by the PAR do not go in that direction and do go in that of supporting the PP, facilitating the investiture of Azcón. The vote of Alberto Izquierdo, the only regional deputy of the Aragonese, is the one that would give the simple majority for the investiture, since the support announced by Aragón/Teruel Existe is that of abstention, without Vox in the equation. The PAR also seeks to obtain a vice-presidency of that disputed Provincial Council, the position held by the same Left under the command of the PSOE and which has been key for the PAR to present 214 municipal candidacies in the third Aragonese province, out of the 354 in the Community. This implantation and with its people-to-people votes, has been key to its survival in the main institutions.

Now, with the electoral wind in favor of the PP, in a party that has always made the most of its results -from the greatest of yesteryear to the meager ones present-, everything indicates that their option is going to be to vote for them. They understand that it can allow them to assume an effective public management quota, which they do not see easy from a provincial council facing the government of the community.

In the case of Aragón/Teruel Existe, the proposals of the Aragonese PSOE have been received with great coldness. To the offer of the presidency of the Diputación de Teruel, Tomás Guitarte already responded that they were proposing impossible things because they were in the hands of third parties. In any case, in Aragón/Teruel Existe they do not see it as politically appropriate to preside over a corporation of 25 deputies having four minutes. They do aspire to the vice presidency and, above all, as they have repeated in recent weeks, compliance with agreements on renewables, depopulation or health, which they have put on the table.

Despite the PSOE's speech that the votes of the new formation come from its ideological spectrum and having supported the investiture of Sánchez four years ago, Aragón / Teruel Existe reiterate that they are on the issues that carry their program, beyond not accepting the intervention of Vox, and not to party assumptions.

The Table of the Courts

Now the challenge is in the capacity of the PP to square everything, with a following temperature taking in the constitution of the Table of the Cortes. By this Friday, the round of talks that Azcón has held with all the groups will have concluded and it will be necessary to see what positions the possible allies occupy.

The interest in the evolution of the pacts in Aragon is maximum, as shown by the fact that the national leader Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, of the 8,000 municipalities in Spain, chose the inauguration of the mayoress of the small town of Celadas in Teruel. That presence had many readings. Also, that of betting because the pacts in Aragon are different from those of the Valencian Community and reflect the centrist profile that it seeks for July 23. The same as what happened in Barcelona and the Basque Country.

Azcón himself is also in it, with his own denominator: without flaunting his resignation from Vox -the legislature is very long-, start the new era of Aragonese politics with a single and indisputable color, blue. Their own voice will be that of the popular leader.

Various European grass sports organisations, notably football, golf and rugby, have jointly called on the EU institutions and Member States to review the arguments – “based on full and adequate information and an impact assessment” – to in favor of a total ban on phytosanitary products for sports fields.

The EU has presented a draft community regulation that would prevent the use of any type of pesticide on these lands, which makes maintenance difficult and would make lawn care especially complicated in southern countries, such as Spain and Italy, among others.. For this reason, several national institutions, such as La Liga or the Spanish Association of Golf Courses (AECC) are moving to prevent this regulation from going ahead as it is currently proposed..

The document was presented in 2021, but it was not until this year that its processing began in Brussels, first in the Environment Committee (April) and later in the Agriculture Committee, where more than 2,000 allegations have been received on this situation. The intention of the European authorities is that this new regulation is approved this year and can enter into force at the end of 2024.

This legislation has not convinced institutions such as UEFA, the European Leagues, Fegga, ETG, IGF, R&A and EGA, which represent practically the entire European football and golf sector, and which have issued a joint note asking that “the EU policies related to sports fields are properly assessed and optimally formulated, taking due account of sporting consequences and sport-related socio-economic impacts for the long-term sustainability of the sector”.

These organizations show their “strong support for the EU on public health and the environment” to meet its ambitious goals outlined in the EU strategies on the Green Deal, biodiversity and “from farm to fork”.. However, they remember the impact that its full application on sports fields will have on turf maintenance..

The president of the Spanish Association of Golf Courses, Luis Nigorra, told El Confidencial that “it is always good to make progress in environmental matters, but we must do things wisely because if not, they will go against what we intended”. In this sense, remember that the maintenance of a lawn in Germany or Denmark has nothing to do with what it means in Greece, for example..

Nigorra recalls that Spain has more than 400 golf courses (the vast majority in Andalusia) and some 300,000 federated players. In addition, every year it attracts 1.2 million golf tourists, of whom some 300,000 have acquired a residence in our country.. They are tourists with high purchasing power that allow this sector to move more than 17,000 million euros and 121,000 jobs (15,000 only in golf courses). “Spain is one of the world reference destinations in this sport and that is why we must take special care of any legislative change that may affect this industry,” he explains..

For his part, the representative of the Spanish Association of Greenkeepers, Javier Gutiérrez, considers that the regulation “takes the prohibition of phytosanitary products to the extreme instead of simply ordering their proper use as a last resort for lawn maintenance”. In fact, it stresses that the draft regulation prohibits even the use of biological products in these facilities.

“Grass sports in Europe have been leading the reduction in the use of pesticides for many years, carrying out strict controls and applying integrated pest management in full cooperation with the relevant national and European standards and objectives”, explains the also head of the Acttua firm. Golf Services.

Currently, low risk products are used in accordance with EU Regulation 1107/2009. In addition, they must be authorized for specific use on grass sports surfaces by the corresponding national authority.. The products can only be purchased and used by certified experts who must accredit training every two or three years.. Protective clothing must be worn for use, and any areas treated with the products are blocked off before they can be used again by staff and players.. In this way, the recommended and labeled periods of safe reentry after application are respected..

The repercussions in the world of football seem even more evident as it is by far the most popular sport in Europe and now also with great growth in the female population.

UEFA highlights that “grass pitches are vital for European social and socio-economic goals, since the availability of safe pitches at grassroots level has a direct impact on the participation of children and young people and improves health and physical activity”. “There is a particular risk for vulnerable rural communities that already lack adequate access to playing fields and other sports facilities,” he remarks..

On a professional level, if the new regulations were to be applied, it would be necessary to repeatedly replace entire fields, since diseases and increased damage caused by use would be more difficult to repair and, in the case of some diseases, practically impossible. to stop in extreme cases without the use of any phytosanitary product.

The consequences of this repeated substitution would be significant even for the big clubs that generate significant income, as well as having a knock-on environmental impact, as more grass would have to be collected and transported between Member States.. There would be a decrease in the overall quality of pitches in Europe, which is currently the standard, and with this decrease in quality the risk of injury to players would increase and the quality of the game itself would decrease in general..

In the context of the possible ban on the marketing of rubber granules as infill for artificial turf pitches (microplastics), the Commission's proposal for a Regulation complicates the question of the adequate availability of football infrastructure in the Member States, which is already below the optimal level to guarantee full access to grassroots football facilities.

The coordinator of the pitches for La Liga, Pedro Fernández Bolaños, defends the “enormous quality and modernization of lawn care on Spanish soccer fields” and regrets that “after years of study and improvement in this sector, the EU wants to now let's throw all that work in the trash”.

This Cordovan assures El Confidencial that “the proposed regulations would bring serious problems to Spanish football and not only because the grass is more or less beautiful, but because it would even influence the quality of the game or the safety of the players.”

On the other hand, the repercussions on rugby would be largely similar, since most of this sport in Europe is played on fields shared with football, especially grassroots rugby.