The resignation of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, one of the profiles with the greatest weight and respect inside and outside Vox, has ignited the wick of an incipient internal rebellion from which the management tries to reduce weight while trying to unite its ranks. With few exceptions, such as the loose verse by Macarena Olona, the dome had managed to put an end to the tensions derived from the clash between the two currents that share space and acronyms. But this time, internal differences have come to the surface.. The waterproof match is leaking. And the voices of alarm multiply while they direct their prayers to the only one capable of stopping the “drift” in which, in the opinion of these sources, the formation has embarked. The hard line, fundamentalist and nationalist, has prevailed over the liberal wing. “Abascal must react or the party sinks”, they summarize.

The parliamentary spokesman tried to scare away the ghosts of an internal schism in his farewell speech. did not admit questions. “It's not the day,” he repeated to journalists as he left the press room of Congress, his home since 2019. He alleged family reasons to justify his departure and made himself “available” to the party. “A gentleman to the end”, commented voices close to Espinosa de los Monteros. There were no taunts or veiled messages, although “he had plenty of reasons”, just a long list of thanks. The last one was reserved for Santiago Abascal. His relationship with the Vox leader had cooled in recent months for rowing in favor of the current headed by Jorge Buxadé. His weight in the leadership was diluted in favor of the new faces of the party. His opinions sometimes hit a wall.

The greatest privilege of my professional life has been serving in Congress.

THANK YOU to those who have made it possible, from @Santi_ABASCAL to every last voter. https://t.co/A9dFsH077U

— Iván Espinosa de los Monteros (@ivanedlm) August 8, 2023

Many were not surprised by Espinosa de los Monteros's decision to jump ship. The leader had already conveyed to his circle that he wanted to throw in the towel before the general elections on July 23. The personal component was important, but not the only one. The deputy did not silence his discomfort at the decision of the campaign team, which Buxadé managed in the shadows, to kill some of the most representative figures of the liberal wing of the party. To purge, in short, people you trust. Despite his political weight, Espinosa had little influence in drawing up the lists for Congress, whose decision “bunkered” into a hermetic nucleus made up, in addition to Buxadé, of Ignacio Hoces and Enrique Cabanas..

The sources consulted assure that the parliamentary spokesman had important internal “encounters” over this matter that “were never resolved”.. One of the dismounted is Víctor Sánchez del Real. The deputy for Badajoz in the previous legislature was one of the ideologues of Vox in its beginnings, but it has been losing focus in recent months. The departure of his friend Espinosa has broken his silence on social networks, where he has encouraged critical voices calling for a change of course.

One of them is José Luis Sánchez, president of Vox in Madrid until Rocío Monasterio took over the reins.. On social networks, the former leader called for “self-criticism”, accused the party of a lack of “internal democracy” and asked Abascal to remove Jorge Buxadé, who occupies the party's Deputy Secretary for Political Action and has accumulated power from his power, also taking charge of of the campaign leadership of 28-M. “If not, Vox will disappear,” he warned. Both Sánchez del Real and the former president of Vox Madrid also criticized Abascal's number two for “ignoring” and silencing MEP Mazaly Aguilar in Brussels, where Buxadé leads the Vox delegation in the European Parliament.

That's how it is. https://t.co/eyEyX3b6Qa

– Víctor SánchezdelReal (@sanchezdelreal) August 8, 2023

The party also eliminated from Congress the economist Mireia Borrás and Rubén Manso, who was the guru of the economic-liberal wing of Vox, where Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, as economic spokesman in the Lower House, was the visible head. The rudder shift towards the most protectionist and interventionist postulates was evident. The press conference that the parliamentary spokesman gave together with Jorge Buxadé to present the party's program on this matter for the generals was organized as an attempt to exhibit internal unity after the media noise due to the removal of important positions from the lists. And even at the last rally of the campaign both ironized the open struggle between the two souls of the party. But the movement was understood by some cadres as another attempt by the first deputy secretary to show authority in a field that, to date, Espinosa de los Monteros dominated almost exclusively..

Manso did not take long to open the ban on criticism of Santiago Abascal and the new course of the party towards the ultranationalist sector. He did it through a column in Vozpópuli. “Vox has no future. This party of which many made a caricature that, like all caricatures, was unfair and hyperbolic, has decided to resemble it and not the epic portrait that some, like Espinosa de los Monteros, were painting (…). Vox will be the first non-conventional right-wing party to fail in Europe for having chosen to be what its enemies said it was”, dispatched.

Buxadé and the theory that you have to shut up until the party tells you what you have to say https://t.co/feehnbtHed via @libertaddigital

— Rubén Manso Olivar (@rubenmansolivar) August 8, 2023

Among the laminated deputies there is a entrenched malaise due to the lack of explanations from the leadership about the reasons that led them to do without them. They have also lost contact with Santiago Abascal. “They set us apart for reasons we don't know. The project is left lame by very good people, with very powerful ideas that have been relegated by the advancement of other ideals, by other people,” these sources complain.. According to critics, Abascal must “find balance” and “return to sanity and diversity of criteria”. If it does not, they warn, “it is possible that the party falls”.

The internal schism became clear on Monday morning after Javier Ortega Smith, who was also removed from his position as general secretary and replaced by Ignacio Garriga, published a message on social networks in which he threw a dart at the party and slipped the Real reasons for the resignation of Espinosa de los Monteros. “I am very sorry for your resignation and much more for the reasons that provoke it (…). Although some have not been able to admit it to you, the vast majority have an unpayable debt of patriotism with you”, he launched, in a veiled allusion to the loss of organic weight of the deputy.

Dear colleague and friend @ivanedlm, I am very sorry for your resignation and much more for the reasons that cause it. You have fought tirelessly since the founding of VOX with loyalty, generosity and sacrifice. Although some have not been able to admit it, the vast majority have a… https://t.co/GpbYufXRZp

— Javier Ortega Smith (@Ortega_Smith) August 8, 2023

The resignation of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros also comes after Vox lost 19 seats in the last general elections. The 24 deputies with whom he burst into Congress in 2019 did not fall below his ground, but his setback, together with the insufficient results of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, frustrated the possibility of reaching Moncloa together. According to the sources consulted, the exporter did not make public his determination to step aside to avoid further damage to a party that was already falling in all the polls.. The last straw, according to these voices, was the lack of internal self-criticism after the results.

The party now faces an incipient internal rebellion with a scenario of electoral replay fluttering on the political board.. There are many unknowns to be resolved, such as the new distribution of roles in Congress governed indirectly by Buxadé's right hand in the Lower House, Ignacio Hoces. The departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros has more implications than the departure of Macarena Olona, before which the party, including the businessman, closed ranks in an iron manner. Vox is now looking at the endemic evil that, sooner or later, affects the big parties: an internal crisis in which each step can reverberate in their most immediate political future.

Several agents, six in particular, have been injured as a result of a front-on-side collision between a National Police patrol car and another from the Local Police, while both vehicles participated in the pursuit of a man who fled in his vehicle after being required to stop the same.

As reported to Europa Press by police sources, the events occurred around 4 am this Tuesday, when National Police officers were chasing a driver of a BMW brand car in their vehicles, who fled after being requested. to stop his car after alerting the security services of the Store polygon of his supposedly suspicious attitude.

The aforementioned driver would have collided with one of the police vehicles, continuing his escape through all kinds of sudden and illegal maneuvers, and would have even rammed on several occasions into one of the police cars that were chasing him, joining local police teams with the chasing.

The driver, finally arrested after being intercepted and trying to continue his escape on foot, gave a positive result for cocaine when he was subjected to a drug test.

• Detentions of 20 kilometers on the AP-4 at the height of Las Cabezas (Seville) when a truck went out on fire
• Two young people die in an accident caused by a wild boar in Chantada (Lugo)

On this Tuesday morning, shortly after 8:30 a.m., a truck overturned after its driver lost control of the vehicle and fell on its side.. The accident took place on the A-6 motorway, when it was near the municipality of La Bañeza, in the province of León. There have been no injuries or significant material damage, beyond what the truck itself may have suffered when it overturned, but the event has generated confusion due to the load the truck was carrying, which was left loose on the road: some live pigs.

Specifically, the incident occurred at one of the highway exit roundabouts, the one at kilometer 303 in the direction of Madrid. When the vehicle fell, the animals began to come out and dispersed around the area, creating danger for the rest of the vehicles that were moving around at that time of the morning.. The co-driver of one of them recorded a video of the pigs, free next to the overturned truck, which has been shared in the community of drivers SocialDrive.

Overturns a truck carrying live pigs

📹 La Bañeza, León pic.twitter.com/pFltudl7fs

– SocialDrive (@SocialDrive_es) August 8, 2023

After the accident occurred, agents of the Civil Guard, police and firefighters were quickly dispatched, who brought the animals to safety and mobilized the truck, in order to restore normal traffic, which was suffering some delays as a result of this event.. After a few hours carrying out emergency work, the road was once again fully open to traffic.

there have been no injuries

In the video we can see how some cars remain stopped because they cannot move between the pigs and the overturned truck, while there are other vehicles that drive with great caution when they see the animals wandering. Despite everything, there have been no major incidents, and the truck driver has been unharmed. After what happened, the causes that caused the truck to overturn in this way are being investigated.

Something similar happened last week on a Barcelona motorway, when another truck carrying live pigs also overturned, which also caused the animals to get out and create chaos and traffic jams. In this case, the severity was greater since there were four injuries, and some of the pigs died.

Two new inflatable boats have arrived this Tuesday afternoon at the Arrecife pier, in Lanzarote, with some 90 migrants on board, which brings the number of people arriving on the island to around 200 today.

As confirmed to EFE by emergency sources, of the slightly more than 90 occupants who have arrived on these last two boats, at least one woman required medical attention upon arrival at Puerto Naos..

In the first of the boats rescued by the Guardamar Talía about 35 miles southeast of Arrecife, 43 people of sub-Saharan and North African origin were traveling, Maritime Rescue sources have explained to EFE.

In the other, there were about 50 occupants, all of them of sub-Saharan origin, and with a woman who was not in apparent good condition..

These two inflatable boats are added to two others that had arrived on Tuesday morning in Lanzarote, escorted by Maritime Rescue, with 107 occupants.

Early in the morning, one to the northwest of that same island was rescued with 47 people on board, of which 38 were men, three women and six minors..

Later, another precarious boat with 60 migrants on board, all of sub-Saharan origin, was also rescued by the Guardamar Talía and transported to a safe port for the first care of the 57 men and three women who were inside.. All of them were in good health..

If there is no electoral repetition to remedy it, Vox is looking at a legislature in which it will see its role in Congress diluted. Santiago Abascal's party deflated on 23-J and left 19 seats, enough to limit his great opposition weapons through motions of censure -he presented two in the last four years-, since 35 deputies are needed to lead these types of initiatives. Nor will he be able to use the trick of fighting the laws of a future Executive in the Constitutional Court, for which 50 representatives are needed. The departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, the main asset in the Lower House, fills his parliamentary future with unknowns and poses a half-speed legislature in the event that Pedro Sánchez or Alberto Núñez Feijóo achieve the necessary support to save an investiture session.

Vox did not touch ground on 23-J -it broke into the first convocation of April 2019 with 24 deputies-, but the polls sent an important notice to Santiago Abascal, who must now focus on reorganizing the distribution of roles in the Chamber to minimize the impact of the departure of its parliamentary spokesman. The party already suffered in Congress a little over a year ago, when the leadership of the party sent Macarena Olona to Andalusia and she later resigned from politics. The formation gave stripes to other deputies with less focus, such as Inés Cañizares or José María Figaredo, but it was Espinosa de los Monteros who filled practically all the gap left free by the State lawyer.

The businessman not only became the voice of Vox in the Lower House, but also performed the function of economic spokesman for the formation. He assumed a leading role in the battle against the Executive for his economic agenda, and responded to Nadia Calviño in each government control session, from which Santiago Abascal was frequently absent.. The resignation of Espinosa de los Monteros, motivated not only by family issues, but also by the organic rise of the fundamentalist wing headed by Jorge Buxadé, forces Abascal to do a bobbin lace to maintain the political pulse within Congress with hardly any weight references..

Vox's slip at the polls left important faces of the formation, such as Carla Toscano or Inés Cañizares, out of the Chamber. The party also removed from the lists representatives of the liberal wing, which also included Espinosa de los Monteros, such as Víctor Sánchez del Real. In fact, the decision of the electoral team to eliminate a part of the parliamentary spokesperson's trusted staff from the lists was one of the reasons that dynamited the businessman's confidence in the leadership of the formation, and distanced him from Santiago Abascal. His resignation causes the Madrid list to run and Juan Luis Steegman, the Vox doctor who was the voice of the formation during the pandemic, to enter the Lower House.

The most immediate task is to find a replacement in the spokesperson for Congress. In the leadership of the party, they deny that this position will fall to Ignacio Hoces, from Badajoz, who has strengthened his organic role as institutional deputy secretary and Buxadé's second in command, although party sources assume that he will have a relevant role in coordinating the parliamentary group as a link with the national leadership.

Some well-known faces continue in the Lower House, such as Rocío de Meer, who repeated as head of the list for Almería; Reyes Romero, who is part of the leadership as third vice president of the formation; Manuel Mariscal, responsible for communication, or Ignacio Gil Lázaro, fourth vice president of the Congress Table, in which the party will request a quota to maintain its representativeness. Deputy María Ruiz, who took over from Javier Ortega Smith's right-hand man at the top, Tomás Fernández Ríos, occupying the vice-secretary for Organization, can also win stripes in Congress. The spokesman in the Madrid City Council will also have a seat in the Lower House, although he has been losing organic weight after being removed from the general secretariat in favor of Ignacio Garriga, also close to Buxadé.

The former Cs and PP deputy, Carina Mejías, also won a seat on 23-J for Barcelona, and several territorial leaders will enter Congress, such as the former leader of the party in the Valencian Community Carlos Flores Juberías, whose former conviction for psychological abuse of his ex-partner forced his replacement in the vice presidency of the region chaired by Carlos Mazón.

The Repara tu Deuda law firm has exonerated a debt of 37,000 euros that a woman, with three dependent children, had contracted after the death of her parents and having welcomed her sister, in Mallorca.

As explained by the company in a press release, the Mercantile Court No. 4 of Palma has issued the benefit of exoneration of unsatisfied liabilities for the woman.

The lawyers who have processed this case have explained that the woman entered “a state of insolvency as a result of the death of her parents”. For this reason, “the debtor had to take care of her sister, only with her income”.

Then, and “as the bankrupt already had three children”, the lawyers have added, this woman “had to request financing with the intention of being able to return everything as soon as her sister found a job”. However, “finally, with his income it was impossible for him to satisfy all the needs”. “Now you have your cancellation and you can start a debt-free life”, they have celebrated.

As they have pointed out, “Spain was one of the European Union countries that took the longest to incorporate the Second Chance Law into its legal system, a mechanism provided for the cancellation of the debt of natural persons”. “It did so in 2015, a year after the European Commission's recommendation to launch this mechanism,” he pointed out..

It must be remembered that the Second Chance Law came into force in Spain in 2015, making it easier for claimants to cancel debts that they cannot afford.

Since then, the lawyers from Repara tu Deuda have dealt with the cases of more than 20,000 individuals and the self-employed and managed to cancel more than 160 million euros to their clients, who come from all the autonomous communities, thanks to the Second Chance Law.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 was felt in Melilla on Tuesday afternoon, the second to occur in just twenty hours in the autonomous city, after the one that occurred shortly before eleven o'clock on Monday night with a magnitude 3.6.

According to information provided by the National Geographic Institute (IGN), this new earthquake occurred at 7:12 p.m. and, like the previous one, had the Moroccan town of Annual as its epicenter, at a depth of 13 kilometers..

The earthquake of this Monday could be felt with intensity III, in addition to Melilla, in the Peñón Vélez de la Gomera, one of the islets of Spanish sovereignty in North Africa, although in the case of this new tremor it does not specify the places where it could have been felt by the population.

The IGN has registered another three aftershocks throughout this day, but with a magnitude of less than three that have not been perceived by the population.

Three alleged murders of women at the hands of their partners in the last 24 hours have triggered alerts given the rate of cases of sexist violence. This summer the data from the previous year is already worsening, without the month of August having yet finished. According to statistics from the Observatory of the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, during June, July and August 2022, 10 women were murdered.. So far in the same period in 2023, there are already 13 deaths, the last one recorded in Almería. To these figures we should add the deaths of two other women in Tenerife and Pozoblanco (Córdoba) if it is confirmed that they are also sexist crimes.

Both the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, have issued messages on their social networks. “My love for the family and friends of the 27-year-old woman murdered in Almería. We continue working, with unity and firmness, to put an end to any form of sexist violence”, commented the leader of the Executive. “More than ever, effective policies are necessary to end this scourge, which would add three cases in just 24 hours and 35 so far this year,” the conservative leader said minutes later, including the two cases under investigation.. The year 2022 ended with 46 women murdered.

My love to the family and friends of the 27-year-old woman murdered in Almería.

We continue working, with unity and firmness, to put an end to any form of sexist violence.

If you are a victim, call 016. https://t.co/rtzn0rssy4

— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) August 8, 2023

Another victim of gender violence in Almería.
Two more cases investigated in Córdoba and Tenerife.

More than ever, effective policies are needed to end this scourge, which would add 3 cases in just 24 hours and 35 so far this year. https://t.co/lU9PPLsr48

– Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) August 8, 2023

Until now, the month of July presents the worst data of 2023, with eight murders. To find a month with more cases, you have to go back to December of last year, which ended with 11 murders, followed by another seven in January, which led to government meetings at the highest level to analyze the response to this scourge.. Throughout August 2022 there were three deaths, a figure that would already be equaled this year if the two events still under investigation in Córdoba and the Canary Islands are confirmed, and when there are three weeks to go. In June there were four murders, both in 2022 and this year.

The Government Delegation for Gender Violence has officially confirmed the macho nature of the murder in Almería. The acting Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, and the Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, have expressed their “absolute condemnation and rejection” of this sexist murder and convey all their support to family and friends of the victim. The victim had three children. To date, the number of minors orphaned by gender violence in Spain amounts to 36 in 2023 and 413 since 2013, when the figures began to be counted.

Almeria, Pozoblanco and La Laguna

The victim from Almería was called Zouhr and was 27 years old. She has been allegedly murdered with a knife by her husband, a 32-year-old man. He committed the crime in the presence of his three children in the Pescadería neighborhood. There were no previous complaints of gender violence by the victim against the alleged aggressor.

In Pozoblanco, the deceased is a 31-year-old woman, allegedly murdered at the hands of her partner, a 39-year-old man, who later committed suicide, leaving three underage daughters orphans.. The police authorities have not yet confirmed the motivation for the event, although the Cordoba city council has already decreed two days of mourning for what it has defined as a “case of gender violence”..

⚠️ We are collecting data on the murder for alleged #Gender Violence of a 31-year-old woman in the province of Córdoba.

🔴 If confirmed, the number of women killed by gender violence would rise to 34 in 2023 and 1,218 since 2003. #NotOneLess #WeWantAlive

— Government Delegation. against Gender Violence (@DelGobVG) August 8, 2023

The mayor of Pozoblanco, Santiago Cabello, has declared that “the main line of investigation that is maintained so far is that it is an alleged case of gender violence, once the intervention of a third person has been ruled out in principle “.

The third murdered this week is a 91-year-old woman in Valle de Guerra, in the municipality of La Laguna (Tenerife), at the hands of her partner, a 92-year-old man who has been detained by the National Police. The woman showed signs of violent death. Since 2003, when data began to be collected, 1,219 women have died.

Telephone 016, online inquiries via e-mail 016-online@igualdad.gob.es, the WhatsApp channel at number 600 000 016 and online chat, accessible from the website violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es /, continue to operate 24 hours a day, every day of the week. At 016, you can request advice on available resources and the rights of victims of gender violence, as well as legal advice from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day of the week, with attention in 53 languages and a service adapted to possible situations of disability.

The negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez has alerted both Ada Colau and the commons as well as ERC. Both want to be members of the PSC in Barcelona City Council and both fear that the current mayor, Jaume Collboni, has reserved the site for another key partner to make Pedro Sánchez president: Carles Puigdemont's JxCAT. So the decision must be delayed to match it with the pace of the talks in Madrid for the governability of Spain. Collboni is aware that Barcelona cannot be governed with the 10 councilors it currently has and the council now stands out as the icing on the cake that all forces are after.

Ernest Maragall, councilor in Barcelona for ERC, said this Monday on Catalunya Ràdio that his party does not rule out entering the city council “and what happens in Madrid must be followed carefully”. Maragall added that he would like to have representation on the municipal Government Board, but “that we are not in as much of a hurry as Ada Colau”. In an interview with EFE last week, Colau urged Collboni not to fall asleep when choosing a partner.. “We will not give you a blank check,” warned the leader of the Barcelona group in the Catalan capital, also demanding that the socialist mayor clarify “what model of city he has”.

“He alone cannot govern, with 10 councilors it is impossible to govern Barcelona, or approve budgets, or do anything,” said the former councilor. “He can hold out for a few months, he will have to make pacts and choose between the model of the city of JxCAT and Xavier Trias” or that of a “left-wing pact”, added Colau, who resumes his campaign idea during the municipal elections of forming a tripartite for Barcelona.

In any case, all the sources consulted, both in JxCAT and in ERC or the commons themselves, agree that choosing a partner for the municipal government of the first city of Catalonia is not a core issue of the negotiation for the investiture, but just the icing on a cake that will still take time to bake. The problem is that Jaume Collboni needs to approve municipal budgets before December 31, something that is key for the city. The risk is that the calendars end up overlapping.

fear of being left out

The fear of Colau and ERC is to stay out of the government team. In the case of the Republicans, somewhat less, because in Barcelona and Catalonia everyone is well aware that the last thing on the PSC's list of priorities is to give Ernest Maragall a job, due to his long and ancient militancy in the game. Another thing would be for Pasqual Maragall's younger brother to be appointed to another position, as ERC seemed to have done when it sent him as number two to the Senate in these last elections, a position for which he ultimately did not get enough votes..

JxCAT is the favorite partner for Catalan businessmen, who still have the dream of what is called sociovergence, but everything will depend on the conversations that are held with Carles Puigdemont for the investiture. Something that will take months and that now starts from very distant positions. Initially, in Junts they raised the situation as a vendetta because Trias had lost the mayoralty. Thus, in reciprocal justice, Pedro Sánchez would be unable to renew his mandate in Moncloa and elections would have to be repeated. If in the end there was a change, which seems very unlikely, the entry of those from Trias into the municipal government would compensate the junteros, who are short of financial resources after being left out of all the Catalan councils, except Girona.

the common ones remain

With all these conditions, the common ones remain. They are Collboni's natural partner, they need to govern in the mayor's office to survive as a party in Catalonia and Yolanda Díaz has already guaranteed her support for Sánchez at the investiture. They are the safe partner, which, on the one hand, makes them more uncomfortable waiting for how the conversations with JxCAT are resolved. On the other hand, instead, it leads them to put pressure on Collboni to give them way, thus blocking the way for their competitors..

Thus, Jaume Collboni is once again at the center of all the debates despite the fact that he only came second in the municipal elections. That did not prevent him from winning the mayoralty (thanks to the support of the PP) and now fate offers him more cards to play a role in these decisive months that await Spanish politics.