ERC wants to make the PSOE “sweat” and will not agree to close a legislative pact that guarantees four more years for Pedro Sánchez as president, as the socialists intend. The Republicans intend to assert their weight and limit the negotiations to the investiture process of the general secretary of the PSOE and candidate designated by Felipe VI. All this despite the phone call that the acting head of the Executive made to Oriol Junqueras this Wednesday to strengthen his relationship with the Republicans..

The acting president of the Government and socialist candidate for the investiture spoke by telephone this Wednesday with the leader of the Republicans, hours before his meeting with the party's parliamentary spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián. The general secretary of the PSOE reinforces the bridges with one of the key partners of the last legislature, a work that Sánchez himself thanked Junqueras in his call. From ERC they have explained that the call was not intended to unblock any issue in the negotiation, but rather a commitment to “normality” in relations between two “historical and governing” parties..

Despite the good understanding that Sánchez and Junqueras have shown, ERC has poured cold water on the PSOE's claims to reach a stable agreement. “Party by party,” said Rufián in reference to Cholo Simeone's mantra, a way of making it clear to the socialists that the legislature will once again be an obstacle course for the legislative agenda of the future Government, if it ends up taking shape.. The first match, following the football simile of the Catalan politician, is the investiture. And the terms are already known: amnesty, a solution “before a ballot box” to the Catalan conflict, compensation for the “fiscal deficit” suffered by Catalonia and improvements in Rodalies, the Catalan commuter service..

Rufián, like the rest of the Executive's potential partners, has advanced that the next steps of the negotiation will follow the path of discretion.. He did not want to give clues about the point at which the conversation about the amnesty is and has criticized the “verbal incontinence” of other political groups.. It was after a question about the statements of the Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, her party colleague Laura Vilagrà.

The Republican spokesperson has tried to divert the weight of the amnesty in the pact and has recalled how there are “two other folders”, in reference to the possible vote in a referendum on the “solution to the political conflict” and purely economic matters.. Regarding the possibility of returning to the polls, Rufián recalled that the commitment reached with the socialists in 2019 already contemplates voting on the agreement that emerges from the dialogue table.. “It has to be in a ballot box,” insisted the Barcelona politician, who sees this possibility as a way to “value” the aforementioned dialogue table..

The thesis that Rufián has defended is that with the “referendum” what has already happened with the amnesty may end up happening, which went from being proscribed to being the key to Sánchez's investiture. “From now on it may stop being a chimera, everything depends on the strength we have,” admitted the ERC spokesperson, who celebrated that his party's participation in the governance of Spain “is no longer a thermometer for to be good or bad Catalan”. The attack on Junts is obvious, since Rufián has celebrated that Carles Puigdemont's team is also in talks with the PSOE.

The conversation with Junqueras

It is not the first time that both leaders have spoken, but the only photo there is of both of them together dates back to 2016, when Sánchez was still the head of the opposition and the events of the process had not escalated.. On this occasion, it was a phone call that paved the way for the meeting that the socialist leader has planned with Gabriel Rufián. In this first round, the leader of the PSOE is trying to establish “the framework”, which will give way to a more concrete negotiation starting next week.

In the conversation, Sánchez “thanked” Junqueras for the support of ERC during the last legislature, although it is true that there were certain votes where the Republicans were left out of the majority, as happened with the labor reform. According to Ferraz sources, the head of the Executive has conveyed to the independence leader that his support made “important political and social advances” possible.. And that is the formula that the PSOE wants to repeat, which is why Sánchez has presented to Junqueras his project for a new mandate with “stability”.

The socialists reveal that both Sánchez and Junqueras have praised the conversation as “a sign of mutual respect and political normality”. And the intention of both leaders is that this relationship continues from now on, although it is the teams of the President of the Government and the leader of ERC who maintain contact.. After this Wednesday's meeting with Rufián, it will be the turn of the negotiators appointed by the socialist general secretary, including María Jesús Montero, Félix Bolaños, Rafael Simancas, Óscar Puente and José Ramón Gómez Besteiro..

The relationship of the PSOE with ERC is well-greased after these years of collaboration and there is consensus that the participation of the Republicans in the governance of Spain is one of the reasons that caused their electoral disaster on 23-J. This data is more relevant if we take into account the competition that ERC maintains with Junts, which better resisted the challenge of the PSC in the general elections.. This bad result has not distanced Junqueras from Sánchez, who, until now, favors the former vice president of the Generalitat over Carles Puigdemont.

According to ERC sources, Junqueras has conveyed to Sánchez “the importance of the advances in political, social and anti-repressive terms” that are the result of the negotiations between PSOE and his party in recent years.. But, at the same time, the president of the independence party has demanded that the socialist make “progress” on the issues that are priorities for his party and thus be able to close an agreement..

Illa in Brussels

For his part, Salvador Illa, leader of the PSC, who spent the day holding various meetings in Brussels, has defended that the negotiation be discreet, reports Nacho Alarcón.. “We like to work with discretion so that things come out, and they have to come out,” he explained to the media.. “When agreements are reached, if they are reached, we will make them known and explain the details of them,” said the Catalan leader when asked about the amnesty.. “Anything that involves agreements in the constitution market, I am going to feel comfortable, outside, no,” he added..

Illa has also been asked about the possibility of a meeting between someone from the Socialist Party with Carles Puigdemont, leader of Junts per Catalunya and MEP, something that she has quickly settled: “With all due respect, I have not come to that”. The leader of the PSC, who was accompanied by MEPs Laura Ballarín and Javi López, held a meeting with Vasco Cordeiro, president of the Committee of the Regions, and with Thierry Breton, commissioner for Internal Market and Industry.

The National Court is already investigating the attack against three people, two of them of Spanish nationality and the wife of one of them, after the attacks perpetrated last weekend in the State of Israel and in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank.. Specifically, Judge María Tardón has agreed to accept the jurisdiction to begin the investigations.

The judge indicates in her order in which she accepts jurisdiction that on October 9, a document prepared by the Head of the Information Service of Madrid was presented, giving an account of the terrorist actions that occurred on October 7 and 8, in which she reported of the disappearance of two Spaniards in a conflict zone, the Basque Iván Illaramendi and his wife, of Chilean origin, and the young Maya Villalobo, whose death was confirmed this Wednesday, and who was doing military service in the area.

The document fell by distribution to the Central Court of Instruction 3 which, once a report had been requested from the Public Prosecutor's Office, assumed jurisdiction to fit the facts into the criminal types of articles 571 et seq. of the Penal Code as it was an alleged crime of terrorism.. Furthermore, it is up to the Spanish jurisdiction to investigate these events as there are victims with Spanish nationality, in accordance with article 23.4 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary..

The Spaniards were reported missing after the Hamas ground and air attack this weekend in Israel. This is a citizen of Zarautz who lives in the Kissufim kibbutz and the young Villalobo, a regular resident of Seville, whose death was confirmed this morning. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already been informed of this situation and together with the embassy is taking steps to try to find the whereabouts of those who still remain missing..

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the death of the young Spanish-Israeli Maya Villalobo, 19 years old.. With dual Spanish and Israeli nationality, he was in Israel because he had to do his military service. He was at the Nahal Oz base, also near the border with the Gaza Strip and one of those that were attacked by Hamas militants. Albares already announced on Monday that these Spaniards had “suffered the Gaza attack on Israel”, although he did not detail their condition.

The Canarian Coalition will not be able to be the “key” of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez due to the position of Junts, which only contemplates a yes or no to the socialist candidate. This mathematical reality, added to their rejection of any amnesty for those involved in the process, has led the island nationalists to rule out support for the election of the acting president.. With the same determination with which they ruled out a yes vote for Sánchez, the Canarian Coalition has opened up to negotiations with the PSOE to reach an agreement that will allow their abstention and, above all, maintain the bridges if the legislature gets going and their vote is approved. becomes “decisive” for the approval of laws and budgets.

“There are issues that are priorities for the Canary Islands and we have to sit down,” said the Canarian Coalition deputy, who rules out a yes to Sánchez for the amnesty, but is negotiating an abstention, after her meeting with Pedro Sánchez and María Jesús Montero. These issues are already known, since it is the same “Canarian agenda” that Alberto Núñez Feijóo accepted to win the vote of the regionalist party in his investiture debate. This involves greater room for maneuver in the management and design of the airport network, having a say in immigration issues related to the islands and a series of economic investments..

It makes sense, then, that María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the party, will lead the delegation that will negotiate directly with the president of the islands, Fernando Clavijo.. Among the issues that will be debated is the reform of regional financing, one of the great debates of the legislature, as admitted by all parties.. Montero's leading role gives clues to Sánchez's intention to put together an agreement that will allow him to continue four more years in Moncloa, for which the approval of several budgets is necessary.. And in this negotiation the Canarian nationalists want to play a relevant role..

“We do not agree on the why and how of the amnesty,” said Valido, although he admitted that they do not have many more details about the intentions of the PSOE regarding the forgiveness of those involved in the process. However, the Canarian nationalists are willing to negotiate to leave “an open bridge” in the dialogue with the hypothetical Sánchez Executive.

Allal El Mourabit is a Moroccan with Spanish nationality who has been in and out of prison for years for crimes related to jihadism.. Currently, he resided in Vitoria on probation with a telematic control bracelet.. But that control device stopped giving a signal on September 27 and the trace of this man convicted of terrorism was lost.. Now it is his family who has gone to a police station to report his disappearance and ask that they look for him.. The security forces and bodies have already had the alert activated for days. His relatives find the way he left strange, because he left the documentation at home. “His attitude, lately, was normal,” they add..

El Confidencial has had access to the complaint filed by his brother last week. He did it at a Vitoria police station under the warning that he had a legal obligation to tell the truth.. This relative sets the time of disappearance at between 8:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on September 27 in Salburua Park in the Basque capital.. The man convicted of jihadism whose whereabouts are unknown is 53 years old, is 1.90 meters tall, weighs about 80 kilos and has a thin and hunched physical appearance, with dark-gray hair.. Since 2022, he lived at his sister's house, who also appeared at the police station. They claim to not know the reasons why their brother has not returned.

It was the Police, in fact, that contacted the family members on September 27 to ask them about the convicted man.. The authorities had been alerted that he had removed his telematic bracelet. A while before, he said goodbye when leaving the house saying that he was going for a walk. His mobile phone, his documentation and bank cards were left at home.. This man convicted of terrorism has a son with whom he maintains regular contact and who lives in Morocco with his mother, whom he divorced years ago.. Despite his problems with Justice, it is the first time that he has disappeared, according to the version of his brothers that appears in the complaint..

They are not aware that he had expressed his intention to change his lifestyle. He also did not take medication or have mental problems. One of the brothers did tell the police that lately he said he felt overwhelmed. He also doesn't have a car or motorcycle. I used to do almost everything at home, even praying, I barely went out and if I did it in half an hour I was back. His relatives find it strange that he did not even take his phone with him, because he was very active on social networks. In fact, this activity cost him a conviction in the past for glorifying terrorism. With that way of life, there are no friends or acquaintances of his in Vitoria either.

Their legal cases

He had been unemployed for some time after 30 years in Spain. He was arrested for the first time after the jihadist attack in Nice in 2016, when a Tunisian living in France killed 86 people at the wheel of a truck. El Mourabit, then living in Pamplona, also drove trucks and used to spread jihadist propaganda on his social media profiles.. He traveled to Türkiye with the intention of entering Syria. When he was tried in 2018, his attitude in the trial earned headlines such as “The jihadist who trolled the National Court”. He reminded the judges of the audios of the then Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, and Commissioner Villarejo in which she said that judges of the National Court had relations with minors on a trip to Colombia.

For trying to enter Syria, he was sentenced to two and a half years. Having spent two years in preventive detention, he was provisionally released, but he was arrested again and spent another two years in preventive detention awaiting a new trial.. On this second occasion, he was acquitted because the judges understood that he had been prosecuted twice for the same facts.. But he still had to serve the six months pending the first sentence and probation measures were imposed on him at the request of the National Intelligence Center (CNI).. He was prohibited from leaving Vitoria, nor could he resume his job as a truck driver or attend events.. The telematic bracelet linked to a mobile phone was imposed on him. According to those around him, these measures made it impossible for him to resume his life before his convictions and probation.. He still had five years left in this situation. His family does not know if he has returned to Morocco, if he has suffered any mishap or if he has fled from Spain to another country.

In the northern area of San Sebastián de los Reyes they have a dream: for the train to arrive. In this way, hundreds of people would save trips that they are now forced to make in their personal vehicles.. It's not a crazy idea. Even Adif has projected it on several occasions and at different times. However, the reality is very different.. The train is not there, but it is expected. For this reason, Santiago López has started an online signature collection campaign to demand the extension of the Cercanías line C4-a to reach Algete and San Agustín de Guadalix.

“There are people here who take their children to university every day to Getafe, and then they pick them up,” is the first thing this neighbor from an urbanization north of San Sebastián de los Reyes says.. “Since these types of things happen, this Cercanías is absolutely necessary,” adds the affected person.. Your anger is increasing if you think that since 2008 the Community of Madrid requested the then Ministry of Public Works to expand the railway network..

The response did not take long to wait.. In May 2009, the Cercanías Railway Infrastructure Plan for Madrid 2009-2015 included the extension of Line C-4 from Alcobendas/SS. from los Reyes to San Agustín de Guadalix and Algete via double electrified track with five new stations: Plaza Norte, SS. de los Reyes Norte, Algete, Ciudalcampo/Santo Domingo and San Agustín de Guadalix.

Two years later, in September 2011, the Ministry of Public Works awarded the drafting of the informative study for the extension of Cercanías to Algete with a budget of 838,636.49 euros to determine the most appropriate road layout alternatives for the extension of the line. C-4 from Alcobendas/SS. of the Kings to San Agustín de Guadalix y Algete.

Just one year later, the Infrastructure, Transport and Housing Plan 2012-2024 was presented, a review of the strategy for 2005-2020, within which another roadmap was framed for Cercanías railway constructions in Madrid, between 2009 and 2015.. “Here they stop mentioning the extension of line C-4 from Alcobendas/SS. of the Kings to San Agustín de Guadalix and Algete,” says López.

Meetings denied

On the other hand, the Minister of Development at that time, Ana Pastor, stated in the Congress of Deputies that the project for the extension of the Cercanías service was being prepared almost a year later.. “The thing was stopped for two more years, until the Algete City Council sent a letter to the Ministry to request a meeting and see how the pertinent studies are going,” explains this aggrieved neighbor..

Given that inaction, in April 2016, 15 municipalities in the northwest of the region met in Algete and signed a letter addressed to the Ministry requesting a meeting.. Silence was the answer. November arrived and the City Council tried again, but nothing. A month later, it was the Community of Madrid that demanded that the Ministry address this issue..

“We had to pressure the Community of Madrid to actively take our side and demand a response from the Government,” emphasizes López.. In this way, they achieved that in April 2017 the General State Budgets included an investment item of 52.2 million euros, destined for the drafting of studies and projects for the expansion and development of the service, among which are the informative studies for the extension of the Cercanías network to San Agustín de Guadalix, Algete and Mejorada del Campo.

The missing survey

In December 2017, the Ministry of Public Works announced that the studies were very advanced. With bulls and marches in between to put pressure on a social level, April 2018 arrives, a key moment: the Ministry of Public Works made the construction of the new roads and stations subject to the demand they had, according to a survey that they would present at the end of 2019. That never happened. The arrival of the pandemic added to the delay in the presentation of the results. “And we still have to go on the A-1 highway, always saturated at rush hour and through which 150,000 vehicles pass every day,” López complains..

Likewise, this neighbor demands that the Community of Madrid inform them of who carried out this survey and how, what its technical details are.. “There are several administrations involved here, and wherever there is a problem in which they can accuse each other, they are going to do it,” says this resident of the northern area of San Sebastián de los Reyes.. “The obvious thing is that when our children reach an age, we have to put on our caps and act as taxi drivers.”. We not only need public transport for the movement of adults, but also for the autonomy of the youngest,” he summarizes..

From local to regional and state politics

Sergio Velasco is councilor spokesperson for Neighbors for Algete, who also fights for the train to reach his town. The extension of the Cercanías, if it comes to fruition, would benefit different municipalities. Although at the moment it is all assumptions, this member of the Consistory explains the two branches that would be built: a stop at the Infanta Sofía Hospital and also at the Plaza Norte shopping center until reaching a fork at the height of the Jarama River.. In this way, the train would reach San Agustín de Guadalix with stops in Santo Domingo and Ciudalcampo; and to Algete with stops at industrial estates.

The thousands of inhabitants of the affected municipalities continue to mobilize. The usual thing is that they have the support of their town councils, all of them going together to demand a quality public transport service.. “We who are neighborhood parties do not have much of a problem, but formations with older brothers in the Government of the Community of Madrid or the State are not always understood as they should,” says Velasco..

Asked if he believes that his wish will soon come true, the Neighbors councilor for Algete does not have too much hope: “Right now we see it very far away because we have not noticed interest on the part of the Ministry or the Community. “They have all been long”. Furthermore, in parallel to the projects that did include the extension of this line, the extension of the train to Soto del Real was also being studied, and right now that project is getting underway.. “They are luckier because they have built the infrastructure,” adds Velasco.. In the northern area of San Sebastián de los Reyes they have no choice but to take all the possible trains to achieve their goal..

The island of El Hierro witnesses the arrival of migrants in an irregular situation with desolation and contained indignation. Since 2003, it has not been seen in figures similar to what it is these days. At the exit of the El Abuelo Gofio Mill, in Valverde, a client is asked about immigration. He suggests that the best thing is to “talk about the island's food”, something that in another restaurant, El Encuentro – a mythical meeting center for security officials on the island – customers do not want to know anything about border controls..

Next year, the Canary Islands will celebrate three decades since the first boat arrived. As the surveillance system was implemented in Fuerteventura, the mafias chose to leave the Sahara to pump hashish and mislead with some shipment from Tarfaya, but the human mass by sea, when moving south, uses a route that ends with the cayucos in El Hierro, the westernmost island of Spain. “And that's why in Madrid they don't find a solution, because their business on the islands is extractive, in fishing and hotels, they don't care, and we Canarians know that they don't care.. “They forget us,” says the indignant Domingo Martín Alfonso, president of the Canary Sea Platform, who has made an appointment with Zarzuela to explain the island's problem in immigration matters..

Juan José Falcón, teacher, has just left a supermarket in the capital, Valverde. “The prices are what they are because of the insularity,” he points out, evasive, although he later adds that “the people of El Hierro are calm, but they do not isolate themselves from the problem” that they are experiencing these days.. He himself does not know how long they will last in this situation.. Being “a quiet town”, remember that everyone knows each other; but they are also aware of “the indifference and abandonment of Madrid, the absence of answers and that everything that happens in the Canary Islands is long overdue”. The only thing that is clear to him is that “the cayucos are going to continue arriving.”

Manuel Rodríguez, returned from Venezuela, lives next to his sailboat of just eight meters, in La Restinga. “I know what is happening perfectly, a premeditated plan is happening here,” he says.. In his opinion, “it is clear that we are the Finisterre of Spain in the Atlantic”. And he explores this idea: “Seen from America we are the first European land, but in Madrid they look at us as if we don't fit in”. So much so, he believes, that even the Minister of the Interior “does not know what means” they have to stop the migratory blow: “He doesn't even know that the island of El Hierro exists,” this neighbor ironically says..

For his part, from El Pinar, Francisco Arbelo, a former private banking employee who is renovating his house to plan his retirement and work remotely, points out that “El Hierro is not on the maps nor has it ever intended to be.”. Perhaps in this way we can understand what is happening these days, when the cayucos do not stop arriving, but the help is long in coming, despite the warnings from Security Forces and Bodies, political authorities and also neighbors..

Rocío Caicedo, a 54-year-old from Almería on vacation in Israel and resident in the municipality of Fines, is waiting for a commercial flight scheduled for this Wednesday from Tel Aviv to be able to leave the country with her daughter, her son-in-law and her parents. two small grandchildren, of Swiss nationality, although with “the fear” of a new cancellation that will keep them on Israeli soil.

In a telephone conversation from the hotel where they are staying, located near the airport, Rocío has expressed the “uncertainty” with which they are living the remaining hours after the airline with which she had purchased the return trip canceled. the flight scheduled just when the conflict in the Gaza Strip began.

“After that we contacted the Spanish Embassy to find out what to do, but they told us to find our lives, so to speak.. Thank God we have found a flight that has a stopover in Jordan and will then take us to Geneva (Switzerland),” he indicated..

Caicedo has pointed out that it is “imperative” that “we can leave” since his grandchildren “are two children who are boys, they are little ones” and has highlighted that the “fear” that grips the family is “that they will call us at the last minute to cancel our flight again”. From the hotel room in which they are confined and which they only leave to buy food and diapers or go down to the shelter of the establishment itself when the attacks intensify, Rocío has indicated that her husband, in Fines, is in permanent contact with the mayor. , Rodrigo Sánchez.

He specified that, this morning, “national deputies” have contacted him, who have facilitated contact to request evacuation on the military planes that the Government is going to charter to help Spaniards who were in Israel leave. temporary and who were surprised by the massive attack launched by the Islamist movement Hamas on Saturday.

“We have not been able to contact him yet,” he said, “but now we have to see, we will have to see, if we finally travel tomorrow,” said Rocío, for whom the visit to Israel, scheduled for eight days, “was a lifelong dream that, at final, look what has been”.

Their daughter Silvana has explained, for her part, that the “only call” they have received from the Spanish authorities has been “the one from just 30 minutes ago giving us a telephone number” for the plane that the Government is going to charter and she has regretted that, at first, “we were only told that we had to find the solution ourselves”.

“We have done that, but we will not know if the commercial flight is going to be canceled or if it is even already canceled because they always inform at the last minute.”. That's what's getting on our nerves because we want to get out of here.. We live the nights anxious, unable to sleep because every now and then the alerts sound and we have to go hide in the bunker where we normally stay locked up for an hour,” he said..

He evoked Saturday night “as the hardest” when he had to “sleep all night” in that shelter and described the “fear” of going out into the street.. “We go out to buy food because we have to eat here, at the hotel, and because most of the restaurants are closed, so we are alert, looking everywhere. “The police are everywhere and the helicopters do not stop passing while we hear the bombings in the distance from Tel Aviv,” he said..

Silvana, who has mobilized “all” her friends in Spain to make her family's situation known, pointed out that they also considered the option of evacuating on a plane chartered by Switzerland, but “the fear I have is that they will send the plane “but only to repatriate Swiss people when my mother does not have nationality or a work permit and they leave her here.”. “Now we think that we are going to fly tomorrow, but we don't really know if we are going to be able to leave the country and that scares us,” he concluded..

Microsoft plans to build a technological campus in Aragon made up of several data centers that could contribute, according to the company's calculations, to the creation of 2,100 specialized jobs between 2026 and 2030 in the region.

This campus, which would house the necessary facilities to support the cloud services offered by the firm – such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform – is part of the company's strategy to implement this type of complexes in other areas of Spain, among which are the Madrid headquarters.

The technology multinational's project comes after the region experienced some failures when trying to attract facilities such as the Tata or Volkswagen battery factories at the end of the last term.. The conversations to carry out this technological campus, as El Confidencial has learned from sources familiar with the operation, began in the final stage of the Executive of the socialist Javier Lambán and have culminated with the popular Jorge Azcón at the head of the Government of Aragón.

Precisely, in the statement made public by Microsoft, the regional president highlights that, with a project like this, Aragon “consolidates itself as one of the leading European regions in a first-rate and strategic technological sector for the development of digitalization and business Innovation”. Likewise, he states that it represents a boost for “Aragon's vocation for attracting companies, especially those that, due to their international relevance and innovative nature, represent extraordinary added value to boost the economy.”.

Microsoft's calculations also place the impact of the campus on the GDP of Aragon, where the company has more than 300 companies within its ecosystem, at 264 million euros. “The new investments will allow us to provide intelligent cloud solutions and services to companies and public entities in Europe, promoting the digital transformation of companies and public entities, promoting innovation and contributing to the generation of new jobs in the technology sector in Aragon. and the rest of Spain”, stated, for his part, Alberto Granados, president of Microsoft Spain after formalizing the announcement.

Pedro Sánchez wants to achieve an investiture through a legislative agreement. That is the approach that the acting president of the Government and socialist candidate is putting on the table in the meetings he has already held with his partners to continue as a tenant of the Moncloa.. This is the balance that can be made after the meeting of the PSOE leader with Yolanda Díaz, Néstor Rego and Aitor Esteban, the representatives of Sumar, BNG and PNV. With the first, he intends to put together a new coalition and the other two are part of the usual partners of the last term.. And the socialists intend to keep it that way for the next four years, banishing any suspicion of a short term..

The PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, explained after the meetings with Galician and Basque nationalists that the conversations are aimed at this long-term agreement. “An investiture is not enough,” said the socialist leader. And that is something that they share, for example, in the PNV, since the Jeltzale spokesperson spoke in the same terms this Tuesday after the meeting he had with Sánchez, in which María Jesús Montero was present.. The presence of the Minister of Finance is not trivial, since this desire for a long-term agreement requires at least three budget agreements in a legislature, as has happened in the one that has just ended..

The idea that the PSOE handles is that the groups' proposals are not immediately applicable, but rather require the time that a legislature gives. And, furthermore, they are measures that will surely have a budgetary reflection. “This way it is easier to reach an agreement for four years,” explain socialist sources. What no one within the PSOE dares to venture is the date on which the talks will come to fruition and will give way to the setting of a date for Sánchez's investiture debate.. What is almost certain is that it will be after the swearing-in of the Constitution by the Princess of Asturias, scheduled for next October 31, Leonor de Borbón's 18th birthday..

In these first meetings, Sánchez is establishing “the framework” and attending to the initial positions of the partners of his potential investiture. It will be after this round when the groups and the PSOE get to work, with concrete proposals. In any case, the reactions of López and the various spokespersons who have met with the president in Congress are positive.. It happened to Yolanda Díaz last Wednesday, although both socialists and leftists took the entire month of October to close a programmatic agreement before addressing the distribution of ministerial portfolios and beginning to bring names to the fore.. And Rego and Esteban have spoken in the same sense..

What comes now will be much more discreet, admit both the partners and the PSOE. The modus operandi will be similar to that followed by the socialists with the negotiation of the Congressional Board that ended with the election of Francina Armengol as president of the Lower House. But first the president must meet with UPN, Canarian Coalition and ERC, this Wednesday; and Junts per Catalunya and EH Bildu, this Friday. What is foreseeable is that the conversation with the Navarrese foralistas will have a similar tone to the one that occurred on Monday with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. To the popular, Sánchez did not ask for support, but rather “respect” for the process. The pivotal role that the Canarian nationalists give themselves anticipates a more proactive attitude from the socialists regarding this “Canarian agenda” that they demand from the islands..

Logic says that with ERC and EH Bildu the mood will be more similar to that of the meetings with PNV and BNG, but in the PSOE they are aware that the staging of the agreements, when they arrive, will be relevant. “No one wants to sign the last one,” acknowledges a Ferraz source. The mystery is, as it has been happening almost since July 24, in Junts per Catalunya. Those of Carles Puigdemont have made it clear that they will vote for or against, that there will be no abstention. The challenge for the socialists is to add them to what Pablo Iglesias called “the bloc of state governance”, something that the neo-convergents denied, until now..

El Hierro is an island without a police station. Due to its population, barely 11,300 inhabitants, there is only a Civil Guard command.. A month ago, and with the growing arrival of immigrants, 10 police officers were assigned to carry out the tasks of identification and documentation of the 'undocumented' who disembark on the local jetties.. Now the island is overwhelmed and this weekend, for example, more than a thousand people have arrived in huge canoes, and those 10 agents ask for help, overwhelmed. In the last five months, more than 4,000 undocumented people have arrived as far as El Hierro alone..

“Suddenly you have nothing, but after a while 400 or 500 people can arrive at once and you only have 72 hours to do all the work. In El Hierro there are only 10 officers for this and they are saturated,” cries Marcos Santiago, the general secretary of the Unified Police Union (SUP) in the Canary Islands, who has raised his voice about the personnel problems when responding to this crisis. humanitarian. He emphasizes that officials are working on the order of “12 or 13 hours a day” to try to respond from the front line to the immigration emergency, while they observe how no more reinforcements arrive..

“There is no room for more people in El Hierro,” emphasizes Santiago, who highlights the difficult mission of these 10 agents deployed. “In 72 hours you have to identify the immigrant based on the information they give you, which is not easy, and send all the documentation to the court,” begins the police officer, who regrets that with this deadline and such a volume of arrivals to attend to it is practically impossible to carry out an investigation under conditions.

“Knowing where they come from and getting information is impossible. The procedures that need to be done are done and little else,” says Santiago.. By law, migrants who arrive irregularly can only be detained for 72 hours after entering national territory.. During this period, the Police must close their identification, a key aspect because with this information, among other things, subsequent asylum applications will be decided: if a person arrives in Spain from a conflict zone, they can request international protection instead of seeing How to begin the procedures for your deportation.

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“Between now and the end of the year we have impressive calms in the sea and we already know what awaits us. Even more so given the situation in African countries and, especially, in Morocco after the earthquake,” explains the police officer, who insists on the SUP's claim to the Ministry of the Interior..

He considers it essential that, at this point, more troops be transferred from other parts of Spain to the archipelago to be able to attend to the emergency.. “At the moment, all the troops that are responding to the problem are from the islands,” he emphasizes, and then recalls that in similar moments, such as four years ago, when the canoes drowned the Canary Islands, leaving images as shocking as that of a full dock in Arguineguín, “it was done like this”.

Migrant transfers

The transfers of agents between islands, however, are not the only ones that the situation requires.. As the reception facilities are completely overwhelmed, especially on small islands like El Hierro, the authorities are referring the 'undocumented' to other islands with more assistance resources to be able to face the crisis with dignity..

“There was no room for more people in the CATE and they have been taken to other resources on the islands. NGOs are also trying to distribute them, while the Canarian Government is in charge of the minors,” says the police officer, who insists on the call of help that, beyond the police, also extends among various sectors of the Canarian population. The island is overwhelmed once again.