The municipal pacts have opened an insurmountable gap in the Catalan independence bloc. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, appeared this Wednesday in Parliament to explain the changes in his executive after he took advantage of a mini-crisis to change three ministers (the excuse was that the head of Agriculture must resign to go from number 2 in the next elections of 23-J). And what should have been a peaceful day turned into political hell with harsh reproaches from their JxCat rivals.. The two main pro-independence parties threw their heads at each other, accusing each other of betraying the pro-independence movement for agreeing with the socialists and contradicting the calls to create a pro-sovereignty front after the municipal elections..

Despite the fact that in some important city councils an alliance between the PSC and Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) ousted the Republicans, this Tuesday two separate agreements between the PSC and ERC crystallized so that the latter preside over the Tarragona and Lleida councils, despite the fact that JxCat had offered a pact to Esquerra to control both institutions. In Lleida, the post-convergents saw themselves presiding over the institution: they have 10 deputies, compared to 8 from the ERC and 4 from the PSC (then there are 2 from the PP and 1 from ARA Pacte Local, where Junts and the PDeCAT are).. In exchange, they would vote for ERC to preside over Tarragona, where the Republicans have 9 against 8 for Socialists and 8 for Junts (PP and Vox each have one deputy). With the ERC-PSC pact, the Republicans will preside over the two Provincial Councils. The unchecking of ERC has angered JxCat, who did not expect the maneuver. But he has also dynamited the offer of a “democratic front” proposed by Aragonès and that his pro-independence rivals claim they do not know what it consists of..

However, the truth is that both JxCat and ERC are agreeing with the PSC, sometimes secretly and other times, with light and stenographers.. “When your party lost 300,000 votes on March 28, you said that the results had a message addressed to the pro-independence parties. He said verbatim that we have the opportunity to understand each other also in the Town Halls ”, the president of Junts in Parliament, Albert Batet, told Pere Aragonès. He referred directly to the surprise pact between ERC and PSC in the Tarragona and Lleida councils. “How is it understood that while making this solemn announcement to rebuild the unity of the independence movement, at the same moment, ERC negotiates and signs agreements with the PSC in the Tarragona and Lleida councils, agreements that depend on the national leaderships of the parties, when Do you have a formal proposal on the Junts table and in the two councils there is an absolute pro-independence majority?.

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“It is understood in the same way that you have governed in the Barcelona Provincial Council for 4 years [JxCat lent their votes to the Socialists to govern in this institution since 21019]… Look, I could take the list out of you and start to reproach us, but no I will. There is clear evidence that we have to understand each other”, the president replied, referring to the list of city councils in which Junts agreed with the Socialists to evict ERC, even in some consistories where the Republicans had clearly won.

The republicans manage a list where there are already twenty towns in which Junts and PSC have already agreed or intend to do so. The Republicans have been able to reverse some agreement that was almost done, like the one with Cervera, but there are important towns where the Republicans have been ousted, such as Roses, Calonge, Calella, El Bruc, Llagostera, La Bisbal d'Empordà or Riba-roja. Possibly they also agree in emblematic squares such as Sitges or Blanes. In municipalities, PSC and ERC pacts are minimal.

Oblivious to this reality of crossed pacts, Junts has guessed a gap in the Government and its parliamentary leader mercilessly harassed Aragonès this Wednesday: “You are not to be trusted. That is why Junts left the Government. They always say one thing and do another here and in Madrid. And you are a protected, unauthorized president (…) The Government is exhausted and your party is desperate. The pact of the Provincial Councils is the authentic agreement of clarity of what their priorities and intentions are “. Later, he warned him that a remodeling of the Government is not worth it, that with 33 deputies a country cannot be governed “and even less with your back to Parliament”. Aragonès shrugged off the avalanche of reproaches as best he could. “I don't know how your party works, but don't try to project the division, the shadows, the public discussions, the corrections of your party's presidency onto mine”.

To troubled river…

As a stone guest, the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, attended the crossing of knives. The truth is that the Socialists let themselves be loved and determined a very clear strategy: that in the town halls where things were clear, they would agree with Junts; and in the Provincial Councils it would agree with ERC. “It could be said that it is a Solomonic decision,” ironically a PSC leader. “Agreements in Town Halls depend a lot on local dynamics. But, even so, we had counted on that we would prioritize local agreements with Junts and the Provincial Councils with ERC, because a general agreement with either of those two parties would not be understood. In some localities, very few, the pact is with Esquerra because the pact on the other side does not make sense. But in the Provincial Councils it is very clear how it had to be agreed ”, socialist sources explain to this newspaper.

This strategy has a double objective.. On the one hand, it minimizes a very important issue: ERC cannot be swept away from the institutions because of its results at the polls.. It is true that it fell more than 300,000 votes and went from first to third force in the community, but even so it continues to be a force with enormous social and political weight, since it is a short distance from Junts. “The wings cannot be clipped in all the institutions that until now it controlled”, they reason in the PSC. On the other hand, the alternative support for the two forces has opened a dangerous gap in the sovereign bloc.. The fact that both forces accuse their rivals of agreeing with the Socialists while each of them agrees with the PSC is a symptom of the derangement in which the independence movement currently lives. And, also, that the position of the PSC is a difficult obstacle for sovereignism to overcome.

In this situation, the socialist leader presses, but does not drown. Salvador Illa offered a hand out to Aragonès this Wednesday: “You want to finish the legislature. It is very well, but that is not a question of good intentions or wills. It's a matter of making it viable. In a parliamentary democracy, agreements are required and when there is no support, they are sought (…) I offer predisposition, agree on things that I think are necessary for the country. We continue to be an alternative, but I offer agreements for structural things in the country, which I also believe should be extended to more political formations if we really want to resolve some issues,” he offered the president.. It is an oxygen balloon that will allow the Republicans to face the rest of the term with a certain tranquility. More than half of the legislature has already passed and some sources estimate that the elections will be brought forward three or four months and that they could be held before the end of 2024.. In the time that remains, ERC can get around the legislature even without approving new budgets: it is enough to extend them in 2024. You no longer need to expose yourself to pacts that report criticism in one sense or another.

elections now

The only setback is that Junts will not give you the oxygen that the PSC provides. “In Spain, the PSOE lost 400,000 votes and although it has a parliamentary majority, it called elections. In Catalonia alone, ERC lost more than 300,000 votes and, furthermore, does not have a parliamentary majority. This situation is unprecedented: a minority party is governing that, moreover, was not the most voted in the elections. This is an anomaly and it can only be fixed with elections and then a minimally stable majority can be formed to support the Government that comes out of the polls,” a Junts source told El Confidencial. Batet himself warned Aragonès this Wednesday: “There have been presidents who have proportionally lost fewer votes than you and have made decisions [in reference to Pedro Sánchez]. Do a deep reflection on whether it is worth enduring this agony “.

From ERC it is understood that the agony, with the help of the socialists, is less agony. “The Government is not tied to Junts and that is what hurts them. There has never been a party as disloyal as JxCat ”, says a senior Government official to this newspaper. In Esquerra they talk about the double standards of Junts and that while they proclaim the unity of the independence movement and that they are the most sovereignist of all, they agree with the PSC “to oust ERC, a pro-independence force, from municipalities in which they had won the elections and obtained more votes than anyone. Isn't this having a double standard? Is there a stronger proof of disloyalty than proclaiming independence and, at the same time, preventing an independence party that legitimately won at the polls from governing a city?.

Dos Hermanas will be on yellow alert this Friday and this Saturday due to high temperatures, according to Aemet. The notices have not yet reached Sunday, June 18, but the PSOE has decided to change the location of Pedro Sánchez's pre-campaign kick-off meeting due to the high temperatures when there is still a month and a half left for the July 23 elections. The socialist leader had chosen the Lago de la Vida de Dos Hermanas, an open-air auditorium where he announced his intention to return to being secretary general of the PSOE after the coup of the Federal Committee on October 1, 2016.. The symbolism will be decaffeinated, since the meeting will be in the municipal booth of the Sevillian city.

The change of location, advancing through The Objective, responds, according to sources from the federal PSOE and the Andalusian socialists, to this forecast of heat, which expects maximums of 34 degrees for the time of the rally. The municipal booth, although it is covered, is no less hot, but it does prevent the militants who attend the act from being in full sun. “That is the lesser evil”, they explain from Ferraz. In the socialist leadership they contemplate an attendance of some 3,000 people, which is the same capacity as expected in the initial auditorium, but it must be taken into account that this rally arrives with the militancy exhausted after a very demanding municipal campaign and that has not generated the results expected.

The heat argument is not trivial, if one takes into account that maximum temperatures above 35 degrees are common at the end of July, when the general elections are going to be held. It is no coincidence that in Andalusia, where Sánchez kicks off the pre-campaign with the act on Sunday, elections cannot be held in July and August. In 1994, the autonomous Parliament changed the electoral law with the endorsement of all the parties to prevent the regional elections from coinciding with the hottest months.. The thesis of the Andalusian Executive of Manuel Chaves was that the holidays and high temperatures could affect participation and distort the electoral result.

Sánchez ignored this situation when he decided to advance the elections and the measures that the Ministry of the Interior will take to guarantee the well-being of the members of the polling stations on 23-J are still unknown.. But the heat is one more factor to take into account in the mobilization of the electorate and the socialist militancy. Especially if one takes into account that the affiliates of the PSOE threw in the rest in the municipal campaign of last May 28. “We are never going to be more mobilized than in local ones,” admits an Andalusian socialist leader. and the explanation is simple. On 28-M, many of the militants risked their future, the continuity of a proximity government.

Now they have to campaign for generals to guarantee the continuity of Sánchez without forgetting that there has been a debate in recent months about the effect of the presence of the PSOE general secretary at their rallies. The president himself admitted that the defeat of 28-M took away “good” mayors and regional presidents. Juan Espadas himself spoke of a “wave of anti-Sanchism” to justify the bad data from the municipal authorities, the same argument used by the still mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz.

We must not forget that the Andalusian PSOE, the party's largest federation with more than 45,000 members, is still licking the wounds of a loss of institutional power that has not been seen since 2011. The defeat in the Huelva Provincial Council and the overturn in the capitals, with Jaén still in uncertainty, the party is still in a state of shock. Sánchez's choice of Dos Hermanas has a reading beyond personal symbolism. Francisco Rodríguez, heir to the historic Quico Toscano, revalidated the absolute majority of the PSOE in this Sevillian town on 28-M in the midst of the socialist defeat caused by the wear of the brand of the fist and the rose and the good moment it is going through the PP of Juanma Moreno.

The Local Police of Palma have arrested a young man for driving drunk, causing an accident while fleeing the scene and, later, assaulting an officer who caught him sleeping in his car. As reported by the body in a press release, the events occurred last Monday morning in the Gremi de Tintorers area.

The agents have explained that the 24-year-old driver collided with a garbage collection truck and fled without providing information.. Subsequently, the operators located the driver inside his car asleep at the wheel, for which they required the police presence.. When the agents arrived, the driver was still sound asleep and when they woke him up, he responded aggressively and attacked one of them, for which he was arrested..

In police stations and since he presented symptoms compatible with the intake of alcoholic beverages, the agents required the driver to carry out alcohol detection tests.. In the first, he gave a positive result of 1.19 milligrams of alcohol per liter of expired air (4.7 times more than allowed) and, in addition, he refused to take a second test..

At this point, the police officers explained to the young man that if he refused to take a second test, he would be charged with an alleged crime against road safety, although he continued to refuse.. In addition, when checking the data of the detainee, the loss of validity of the driving license was verified due to the total loss of points.

The acting mayor of Jaén and socialist candidate, Julio Millán, has offered Jaén Deserves More access to the mayoralty of the capital with the intention of establishing a sanitary cordon that prevents the arrival of the PP in the municipal government.

In this way, the PSOE, which was the most voted list on 28-M, makes its 11 councilors available to the provincial formation (which obtained only three ediles), the same ones that the PP took, compared to the two from Vox.

The offer of the PSOE to Jaén Deserves More arrives less than 48 hours after the plenary session of the constitution of the city councils. Julio Millán has justified this by not having received a response to the proposal in which JMM was offered, among other issues, that they hold the mayoralty of the capital last year in exchange for receiving their support in the plenary session that was held. will be held next Saturday.

Millán already anticipated in a previous appearance that if he cannot govern his objective is to prevent the arrival of the PP to the mayor's office, “the party that brought corruption, abandonment and laziness to Jaén that all of us from Jaén know”, he pointed out. the socialist candidate this Thursday in a visit to some municipal works.

For all this, Millán has urged Jaén Deserves More to assume “a responsibility” and has ordered them to “take the reins and start working to prevent the PP from returning”.

The municipal firefighters and the Local Police of Castellón de la Plana have begun this Thursday to evict eight homes and two ground floors of a building on Calle del Gobernador that had cracks inside that threatened to collapse the interior structure. According to municipal sources, the eviction is taking place at the direction of the municipal technicians.

The government team spokesman, José Luis López, explained that the affected building is located at number 44 Calle del Gobernador; As a result of some works at number 42, the residents had hired an architect to monitor the appearance of some cracks, which have increased in recent days.

This Thursday, this architect has gone to the place and has seen these cracks in the central staircase, in which there are load-bearing walls, which “threaten to collapse the interior structure”.

After communicating this to the City Council, the municipal architects have traveled to the place, who have verified that this was indeed the situation and the “immediate” eviction of eight homes has been recommended.

The municipal firefighters are now working on propping up the building so that residents can safely access to collect the most essential belongings.

The façade is currently undamaged but, as López explained, the sidewalk and one of the street lanes will be cordoned off for safety. All the residents have alternative accommodation, according to the spokesperson, who added that the technical reports that will assess the state of the building and outline the steps to follow are already being prepared..

The PP candidate for Barcelona in the general elections, Nacho Martín Blanco, has stated that they will only make the PSC candidate, Jaume Collboni, mayor of Barcelona if he agrees to leave the acting mayoress, Ada Colau (BComú) out of the municipal government. ), and to the common.

He said this this Jew in a press conference together with the president of the PP in Barcelona, Manu Reyes, in which he explained that the popular candidate for the mayor of Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, demands that Collboni “do not reach any agreement government with Colau nor the Colauismo”.

Martín Blanco has assured that the comuns have been a “true calamity for Barcelona”, and has insisted that they would only agree to negotiate with Collboni if he agrees to leave BComú out of the municipal government.

“We will not vote for the re-edition of the previous calamitous government. It would be a joke”, and he added that Sirera will not vote in favor of the Trias for Barcelona candidate, Xavier Trias, to be mayor of the Catalan capital either..

Collboni: “erratic” tractoria

He has also described Collboni's record as “erratic”, arguing that the Socialists have turned his party into an unreliable proposition for Constitutionalist voters, according to him..

Martín Blanco has warned that, if an agreement is not finally reached to prevent Trias from being mayor, the ultimate responsible will be Collboni.

A vehicle collided this Thursday with a taxi, invaded the sidewalk and ran over three people, who have been injured to various degrees, next to the Barceló market in Madrid, a spokesperson for the capital's Emergencies has informed Europa Press..

The accident happened this afternoon. For reasons that are now being investigated, a black car has collided with a taxi at the intersection of Mejía Lequerica and Beneficencia streets, in the Malasaña neighborhood. As a consequence of this, it has entered the sidewalk, running over three people and knocking down six parked motorcycles, which have stopped the blow a bit..

#Multiple hit-and-run on Mejía Lequerica street. A car invaded the road after colliding with a taxi.@SAMUR_PC attends to 3 moderately injured. @policiademadrid makes the report. pic.twitter.com/ZkDFZHiiH1

– Emergencies Madrid (@EmergenciasMad) June 15, 2023

Sanitary workers from Samur-Civil Protection have quickly gone to the place, assisting a 65-year-old woman, who presented moderate to severe facial trauma and head trauma, for which she has been transferred to the San Carlos Clinical Hospital as potentially serious..

In addition, the doctors have treated a 54-year-old man with a possible shoulder fracture, who has also been evacuated to the Clinic. And a 62-year-old woman, who presented with a nasal septum fracture, facial trauma, and possible pelvic trauma.. He has been transferred to the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in moderate condition as well.

The Municipal Police have closed the area to traffic to facilitate the work of emergency teams. The drivers involved in the accident and other witnesses are also being interviewed to find out the causes of what happened and make the corresponding report. They will also review the security cameras in the area.

The Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) has closed the case against Noel López, Secretary of Organization of the Andalusian PSOE, in the case of the kidnapping of the councilor of Maracena, Vanessa Romero. The Andalusian high court, in an order dated this Thursday, considers that the indications raised by the investigating judge are “insufficient” to maintain the investigation. The TSJA has returned the case to the Investigating Court Number 5 of Granada, since it considers that it has not “exhausted” the practice of “essential” procedures to elucidate the role of López in the alleged illegal detention.

“It is not enough any suspicion or conjecture. The possibilities, more or less close, or the unverified allusions are not enough, “says the order of magistrate Antonio Moreno Marín, who acts as rapporteur for the brief of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJA. The judge considers the referral of the case to the Andalusian high court “premature” and misses the fact that the investigator has elaborated on the investigation before sending the case to the TSJA due to the status of López, who is a deputy in the regional Chamber and second secretary of the Bureau of Parliament.

The TSJA order admits that the alleged involvement of López, the still mayoress of Maracena, Berta Linares, and the Councilor for Urbanism, Antonio García Leyva, part of the statement of the author of the kidnapping and the locations of the mobile phones of the three politicians. However, the TSJA judge acknowledges that the statements of the detainee, in pretrial detention, “could not be verified” by the non-registered or by “other investigative measures” proposed by the investigator, the Prosecutor's Office or the parties.

“Essential investigative procedures have not been carried out”, the magistrate abounds, alluding to the statement of those indicated by the instructor in the Granada court. “Confronting their statements, and the accusations that derive from them, with the non-registered persons to whom it refers, are considered essential and indispensable steps,” insists the letter, which alludes to the pronouncement of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which also lacks other errands.

The Andalusian high court opens the door for the investigator to re-refer the case once the instructor's investigations progress and it is proven that López's “individualization of personal conduct” may be “constituting a crime, with well-founded evidence that corroborate their credible participation or involvement” in the kidnapping of Vanessa Romero.

The pronouncement of the TSJA is made public a few hours after an order from the investigating judge, José Sola, was known, in which he excluded the defenses of López, Linares and García Leyva from the investigation of the kidnapping. This procedural movement responded to the fact that it was the high court that assumed the case at the request of the instructor. But the order of the TSJA, which also bears the signature of the president of the high court, Lorenzo del Río, returns the case to the initial moment.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has warned this Thursday of the rise of “anti-European forces”, and has called on the 27 to be “much more united”, in the face of threats such as the Russian invasion in Ukraine or the climate emergency. The head of the Executive has appeared in the Moncloa to explain his central axes of action during the Spanish Presidency of the EU, which begins on July 1, avoiding the issues of “domestic politics” so as not to expose himself to a reproach from the Central Electoral Board , which has already warned the ministers Félix Bolaños and Isabel Rodríguez for their demonstrations in public institutions after the opening of the electoral period.

Sánchez has avoided assessing the pact reached by PP and Vox in the Generalitat Valenciana, but he did want to reassure about the effects that a hypothetical change of government will have on the rotating EU Presidency. “Democracy has never been a problem”, he assured, recalling that the rotating presidency has already coincided with electoral processes in other countries before, and that “all operators”, in reference to political parties, autonomous communities, unions and civil society , “have participated” and know the “objectives and priorities” at this stage. The Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, already advanced on Tuesday, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, that a future change of Government after the general elections of 23-J will not be able to modify the course of the reforms already committed to Brussels, since it could stop further disbursements of Next Generation funds and even lead to the imposition of sanctions.

Sánchez did not want to go that far, and has limited himself to presenting the axes on which he wants the Spanish presidency to pivot, beyond other specific plans such as promoting the migration pact, maintaining support for Ukraine —”Today more than never”— or the commitment to the reform of the electricity market to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies and reduce the “volatility” of the system. The specific priorities go through, first of all, “reindustrialising Europe”, guaranteeing its “strategic autonomy”, and facing the “vulnerabilities accumulated by de-industrialisation”, with the specific example of the “shortage of masks” during the pandemic..

On the other hand, the chief executive advances that they will promote “minimum business tax standards” for the 27, that is, a common corporate tax, “particularly in the digital field”, in addition to trying to complete the banking union. The fight against tax evasion, avoidance and fraud is also on his list, as is action against shell companies.

The ecological transition, which would make it possible to create “up to a million jobs” in this decade is another of the priorities, which would also help to “reduce dependence” on the EU in terms of energy and raw materials. The consolidation of the social pillar, in terms of the fight against inequality and the strengthening of the welfare state, is another of the legs of the project of the current Executive.

And, ultimately, there is an axis reserved for “strengthening the unity of the EU”. “No more binary reflections on the power of China and the US. Europe can, and must, become the architect of the new world order,” said Sánchez. In the audience, in the front row, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, listened to him; the third vice president, Teresa Ribera; the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños; the head of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, as well as the Minister of Territorial Policy and spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, as well as various ambassadors.

Sánchez has alluded to the need to increase corporate tax one day after Díaz sold the same recipe and a permanent tax on large fortunes. He has done it in the presence of the vice president, and at the gates of an election in which the PSOE claims to be the true useful vote for left-wing voters. He could not enter into “domestic affairs”, but he did not miss the opportunity to dispute this flag with the leader of Sumar. Until a few weeks ago, before 28-M and the advance of the general elections, they were presented as electoral tickets.

• At what time are the selectivity notes published in Madrid, Galicia and the Basque Country?

When the days of stress and nerves end for students from the autonomous communities who have taken the 2023 selectivity exams, they begin for Andalusian students. During this week, thousands of students are examined for the Baccalaureate Assessment Test for University Access (PEvAU), commonly known as selectivity.

The exams, spread over three days between June 13 and 15 in their ordinary call, will serve as a gateway to the university world for most of the young people who take the exam. While the extraordinary call will begin on July 11 and will last until July 13.

With the exams over and some of that pressure off, the youngsters face a turning point.. It is time to discover the qualifications to find out if they will be able to access the studies of their dreams. Although, for the moment they are still focused on the last push of the course, there are those who want to know when the selectivity qualifications are made public.

June 22

They will have to wait a week to find out how they did in the exams. The notes corresponding to the ordinary call are published on Thursday, June 22. The qualifications will be available on the web pages of all the Andalusian universities from eight in the morning, being able to access them with the user that has been generated for each student in the PEvAU registration process..

As soon as the grades are known, you can claim and request the review of the exams, but only for three days from the publication of the grades. In the same way, those who have submitted to the extraordinary call must mark July 19 on their calendars. The results will be announced after 8:00 p.m.