The situation in Navarra has been unblocked after weeks of negotiations between the PSN, Geroa Bai and the alliance of Podemos and IU (Contigo-Zurekin). The first push was given a few days ago by EH Bildu, who should lend his support, and he did so when he opened to invest María Chivite if the socialist managed to repeat the current coalition before, in an arithmetic similar to that of the current Navarrese Executive. The change in the hemicycle that occurred in the regional elections on May 28 is the key to this complex alliance, since Uxue Barkos's party has lost two seats that have ended up in the bag of the radical nationalist coalition.

The parties have presented the agreement this Monday and it is expected, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, that the Chivite investiture debate will be held this weekend. The election will foreseeably take place on Sunday, since the socialist leader needs the abstention of EH Bildu and a second vote will be necessary, since she does not have an absolute majority in the first. The PSN, which had submitted the agreement to its bases, has made public this Monday that 95% have supported the reissue of the current Government. “It's a good day for Navarra,” defended the organization secretary of the party, Ramón Alzórriz, who has boasted that his alliance has 21 seats, compared to the 20 that add up to “the right and the extreme right”, although he has admitted that the abstention of the radical abertzale coalition is necessary.

Despite this change of stickers, the block that allowed the first government of the socialist has the same 30 seats. The PSN retains its 11 seats and the left-wing alliance Contigo-Zurekin maintains the three that Podemos (2) and IU (1) achieved four years ago. Given the doubts of Geroa Bai and the push of Bildu, the socialists and the left-wing coalition reached an agreement to try to reissue the current Executive. The objective, in essence, was to place all the pressure on the shoulders of the PNV brand of Navarre, which maintained the requirement of having four ministries —among them, Economic Development— and dropped its discomfort that it was the left that managed living place.

The right, for its part, maintains 20 of the 50 seats in the Pamplona Parliament, although in 2019 it presented itself under the brand of Navarra Suma, the alliance between UPN (now it has 15 seats), the PP (3) and Ciudadanos. The two deputies to reach twenty are provided by Vox, which has been released in the Navarre legislature. The alliance between the popular and the Navarrese nationalists could not be repeated after the conflict between the two parties on account of the march to the PP of two defecting UPN deputies after the negotiation of the labor reform of the Government of Pedro Sánchez. One of them, Carlos García Adanero, has achieved the seat in Congress with the popular after the recount of the foreign vote, favorable for the PP to the detriment of the PSOE.

🌹Today is an important day for all Navarrese and Navarrese

❤️/ Our land will continue to be a bulwark of progress led by @mavichina

🗣️@rapmon266 pic.twitter.com/lN0yLHaA6v

– Navarre Socialists / ❤️ (@PSNPSOE) August 7, 2023

It must be taken into account that Geroa Bai is a coalition resulting from the union of the Basque nationalists in the foral community with the party of Uxue Barkos, Geroa-Socialverdes. And the division between those two souls is what causes the current tension.. The faction related to Barkos is more favorable to the agreement, while the wing aligned with the PNV is divided and there is a part, headed by the parliamentarian María Solana, more reticent to the agreement with the PSN. After a morning of meetings within the nationalist formation, the three parties of the Navarrese Executive went into lockdown at 5:00 p.m. this Monday with the aim of unblocking the situation. “They are not raising substantial things, but procedural, non-functional elements,” explained a source familiar with the conversations, who was confident in the positive outcome..

Another source familiar with the negotiation points to internal doubt within Geroa Bai after that loss of two seats.. Part of the coalition considers that the Government with the PSN has ended up being detrimental to the Navarrese brand of the PNV, points out this member of one of the Executive parties. There are voices that question the hard position of the jeltzales in the foral community, something that contrasts with the position they maintain in Bilbao, where collaboration with the PSE is in good health, despite the logical tensions between two government partners in Madrid and Victory. The fact that the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE at the federal level, Santos Cerdán, comes from the Navarrese federation of socialists is not trivial.

The positive outcome of the talks allows accelerating the steps for the investiture of María Chivite, which must have the active abstention of EH Bildu, as in 2019. The debate in the Parliament of Pamplona could be set for the end of this week, which would leave the inauguration of the socialist next week, at the latest. It will be inevitable that the position of the radical Abertzale coalition to allow the re-election of Chivite does not slip into the negotiations for the formation of the Table of Congress. The PP and Vox will take advantage of the collusion between the PSN and Bildu to profit, in the same way that the PSOE takes advantage of the formation of coalition governments between popular and ultra-conservatives, with Aragon as the most recent example.

The negotiation in Pamplona is a kind of test for the PSOE, which is holding discreet talks for the opening of Parliament. At the finish line, the election of the president of Congress, which will be very tight, given the tie between blocks. Above all, after the regrouping of the potential allies of the PP around Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is in a position to have the 172 seats that he adds with Vox, UPN and the Canary Coalition. The decisive button will be in the Junts seats, as seen from the same election night and as confirmed after the CERA vote count, which gave one more seat to the PP.

• Another wave of extreme heat is here (and the worst of all): it could exceed 44 degrees
• This is the date on which the “unusually intense” heat returns to Spain, according to Aemet

According to the statements of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on Twitter, Spain is expected to reach a record average temperature this coming Wednesday, August 9, exceeding the marks registered since 1950 for these dates.. This day will probably be one of the five hottest days in August in the last 73 years.. Comparing the summer of 2023 with that of 2022, which has been the warmest so far, it can be seen that last year experienced more sustained intense heat, while this year there have been fluctuations in temperatures, with rises and falls..

If we compare the summer of 2023 with that of 2022, the warmest to date, we see that last year the intense heat was more persistent. This year there are more rises and falls in temperature. However, next Wednesday could be warmer than any day last year pic.twitter.com/S4saD72u4c

– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) August 7, 2023

However, next Wednesday the heat in Spain is expected to be more intense than any day last year. This heat wave is due to the presence of an air mass over the Peninsula, which is expected to be one of the warmest on record. In large areas of the country, the maximum values measured in the reference period from 1991 to 2020 will be exceeded..

In addition, the Aemet has also warned that a clear increase in temperatures is expected in the Canary Islands as of Wednesday, maintaining the intense heat in the archipelago for much of the week.

And, attention, because also in the Canary Islands the temperatures will rise clearly from Wednesday. The heat will be intense in the archipelago for a good part of the week. pic.twitter.com/FAHTHvkIbj

– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) August 7, 2023

How to deal with the heat wave

The Ministry of Health has published a prevention and protection guide to deal with heat wave episodes in the best possible way. These include drinking water and fluids frequently, avoiding outdoor physical activity in the middle of the day, wearing light clothing, or keeping medications in a cool, dry place.

The driver of the vehicle that was traveling with a baby and two other people that collided with several cars parked on a street in Petrer (Alicante) after hitting a container and that was recorded in a video that went viral on social networks and widely disseminated in media, has been arrested by the National Police.

This 34-year-old man was arrested this Monday accused of the crimes of injury, damage and against road safety for, allegedly, being the driver of the tourism in which, along with the 19-month-old baby, were two more people, among them, the mother of the little one.

A fight between clans ends with a car crashing into 4 parked vehicles

📹 Petrer, Alicante pic.twitter.com/XhAD4E4tg1

– SocialDrive (@SocialDrive_es) August 2, 2023

Both this woman and the baby were slightly injured despite “the brutality of the accident”, which caused material damage, according to the Police, who have indicated that the origin of the events could be “old disagreements between families” and that the arrested will go to court in the next few hours.

In the video, you can see how the car involved drives at high speed through a narrow street in Petrer, runs over a container that was in the middle of the street, loses control and rams several parked cars..

A total of twenty-three immigrants have been arrested within the framework of Operation Fairground since its inception yesterday Sunday to prevent the arrival in Algeciras (Cádiz) of people hiding in the vehicles of the attractions entrepreneurs who have participated in the Patron Saint Festivities of Ceuta.

The so-called Operation Fairground, named after the control that is carried out on the fairground attractions where these people hide, began around 6:00 a.m. this Sunday with the participation of 50 agents.

The operation has resulted until this Monday with the location of twenty-three immigrants who were hiding in one of the 292 vehicles that have already been inspected by the agents.

The Government Delegation has detailed that 22 cars, 28 vans, 37 light trailers, 66 heavy trailers, 67 trucks weighing up to 3,500 kilos, 26 tractor-trailers, 21 caravans, a motorcycle, a motorhome and 23 home trailers have already passed through police control..

Last year the agents controlled 66 vehicles, 109 trucks and 157 trailers of the fairground entrepreneurs, inspections that resulted in the arrest of 47 immigrants, of whom 44 were Moroccan minors..

The operation, in which agents of the National Police, the Civil Guard and the port police intervene, has the support of a drone, a heartbeat detector and a dog specialized in locating people.

A man has been arrested this Monday accused of trying to attack the agents of the Local Police of Cádiz with a thick chain during a performance to seal an abandoned house, where rubble had fallen from a balcony onto the street, with the consequent risk to pedestrians.

The Local Police of Cádiz appeared this Monday morning at a house on Teniente Andújar street and verified the existence of these rubble from an abandoned farm, as well as a metal railing protruding with a risk of falling, as reported by the City Council. in a note.

Given this, the Fire Department was notified to review the property and to the municipal cleaning services to remove the remains that had already fallen on public roads.. In addition, the neighbors told the agents that the property is an occupied farm, where “the consumption and sale of narcotics is common, and that almost every day there are usually brawls.”.

In the visual inspection carried out by the agents from the outside, the poor condition of the building in terms of safety and health was determined, with a large accumulation of garbage and belongings and giving off a strong putrefied odor. For this reason, the presence on site of a technician from the Urban Planning delegation was also required..

While waiting for the arrival of the Fire Department to continue with the action, a person tried to access the property and when requested by the Local Police picked up a thick chain from the ground with the clear intention of hitting the agents. After managing to reduce the man, the agents arrested him for an alleged crime of attack on authority.

Finally, before the inspections carried out by both the Urban Planning technicians and the Fire Department, and after checking the state of the property, the property was sealed for security reasons and the access walled up was requested..

The Central Electoral Board has dismissed the PSOE's appeal to review the invalid vote in Madrid. The electoral authority thus rejects the aspiration of the Socialists to recover the 122 seat that they lost after the inclusion in the scrutiny of the foreign vote, on July 28. The PSOE made this request after staying 1,300 ballots from the PP in the capital, although the Provincial Electoral Board of Madrid already anticipated the rejection that the JEC has confirmed this Monday, since it considers that there is no “indication of irregularity” that advises recount these 30,000 votes.

The review of the null vote in Madrid is a consequence of the dance of seats that took place after the external vote, which on July 28 ended up snatching a seat from the PSOE in the most populous province in the country to give it to the PP. And this change has the incentive that the 16th deputy for the popular is none other than Carlos García Adanero, the former UPN member expelled from the Navarrese party for defecting after rejecting the labor reform that his party agreed with the government of Pedro Sánchez.

The distance of 1,700 votes with which the PSOE closed the electoral night turned into an advantage of 1,300 votes in favor of the PP after a recount of several hours. “Nothing changes, we still need Junts,” socialist sources pointed out that same night. But in the match of the fist and the rose they launched this new count. This is possible since invalid votes are not destroyed, as is the case with other ballots.. And there are 30,000 votes that the socialists had asked to review to try to recover that seat.

This request from the PSOE has caused a striking side effect and the deputies elected from the Madrid list have not been able to go to collect their credentials in Congress. This detail has prevented the leaders of the four major parties from taking a position in their position in this impasse that the investiture process is experiencing.. The forecast is that the situation will be reactivated from the constitution of the Board of the Lower House, which will be on August 17. And that the formation of the body that governs the operation of Congress is the first clue of what may happen in the investiture. It must be taken into account that the 137th seat of the PP and its subtraction from the loot of the PSOE (and the left bloc) makes the affirmative vote of Junts necessary for the socialists even in this vote, secret and in a ballot box, which will mark the future of the legislature.

The JEC refers precisely to the possible breach of the deadlines established in the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) to justify its rejection of the appeal of the PSOE. “The appellant party does not allege any irregularity in the general scrutiny to justify the repetition,” points out the electoral authority, referring to the fact that the Socialists only argue their request in close proximity to the PP votes to be able to snatch that last seat. The JEC also explains that when there have been revisions of invalid votes, they have responded to problems in the ballots, such as their tinting.

One of the members of the JEC has presented a dissenting opinion of the decision to reject the appeal of the PSOE and against one of the legal grounds of the decision. Specifically, it points against the argument of the Central Electoral Board that denies the counting of invalid votes because the Socialists did not claim it at the correct procedural moment, that is, within a period not exceeding one day after the end of the count..

Part of the PSOE requests are assumed by the electoral authority in relation to the review of various votes considered valid for the PP and which have been declared invalid after the review requested by the PSOE. These votes do not change the result of the scrutiny of the foreign vote that was carried out almost 10 days ago and that only changed the situation in Madrid. In the other eight circumscriptions where the result was adjusted, the votes of the Census of Absent Resident Voters did not generate any change..

Ten people between the ages of 18 and 65, of Colombian, Argentine and Spanish nationalities, have been arrested for dismantling an organization that sexually exploited women recruited in Colombia, in an operation that has allowed the release of eleven victims on the coast of the province of Alicante .

As reported by the National Police this Monday, the exploited women are between 19 and 37 years old, and the criminal network attributed a debt of 5,000 euros to them for the trip to Spain..

The agents have made a total of three entries and searches at homes in Benidorm, Denia and Gata de Gorgos, where the eleven women were released, and there they seized more than 12,000 euros in cash, as well as 830 grams of marijuana, several surveillance cameras and a high-end vehicle.

The detainees are accused of committing the crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, trafficking in human beings, prostitution, against public health, money laundering and facilitating irregular immigration..

The operation has lasted for eight months due to the complexity of the network and the number of people involved in the criminal organization, specifically it started in November 2022 when some of the victims managed to flee the home where they were sexually exploited and, terrified, They asked for help through the free hotline for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation (900.10.50.90).

The police protocol was activated and it began to be discovered that these women, once captured, were transferred to Spain acquiring a debt with the criminal organization of 5,000 euros.

The victims were watched by video surveillance cameras and continuously intimidated, giving rise to cases in which they were forced to provide sexual services without prophylactic protection, according to an investigation carried out by the Units Against Immigration Networks and Document Falsification (UCRIF) of the Provincial Police Station. of Alicante and the Denia Police Station.

The National Police has dismantled in Fuengirola (Málaga) a cell of one of the most active criminal networks in the perpetration of robberies in homes that is known in Europe, whose members, of Croatian origin, allegedly finalized an incursion on the Costa del Sun.

Investigators attribute to them half a dozen robberies in homes in Burgos, Cantabria, Lugo and Murcia –criminal acts that would confirm the itinerant nature of the organization–, the National Police has indicated in a statement.

The suspects, who mainly used the slip technique to access the properties, were surprised with different tools for the commission of these criminal offenses..

According to the investigations, the cell detected in the province of Malaga acted in an itinerant manner throughout the national geography, operating four or five days in one town and then changing the area of operation..

The method most used by those investigated would be the slip, which consists of forcing access to the home using a hard plastic that is inserted between the frame and the door of the house, at the height of the lock..

On other occasions, when they could not open it due to the aforementioned modus operandi, they used screwdrivers and other tools to carry out the theft by the bumping method..

In addition, the suspects took significant security measures to avoid detection, wore summer clothing, and pretended to be tourists so as not to arouse suspicion..

The investigations carried out led agents attached to the Robbery Group of the Fuengirola Police Station to identify the couple, a man and a woman, frustrating their plans on the Costa del Sol, in a device to prevent home robberies during the period summer.

For this reason, the National Police arrested the members of this cell for their alleged involvement in half a dozen robberies perpetrated in Burgos, Monforte de Lemos (Lugo), Murcia, Santander and Torrelavega (Cantabria).. The investigated woman had a legal indictment issued by the Investigating Court number 3 of Santander for a crime of robbery at home.

The month of July 2023, which has been very hot and dry and has registered two heat waves in Spain as a whole, is the sixth warmest July in more than 60 years of data recording and the fifth warmest. warm this century, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

The monthly climatological balance explains that July was generally a month with very little rainfall, although some intense storms were recorded in parts of the eastern peninsula..

Specifically, the average monthly temperature on the Peninsula was 24.3ºC, that is, 1.2ºC above the average for this month compared to the reference period 1991-2020. During these thirty years there were frequent hot episodes but they did not last long.. The Aemet highlights the heat waves registered between July 9 and 12 and from July 17 to 19, dates in which both the maximum and minimum values were well above the usual values for this time of year..

Likewise, the Aemet recognizes other notable warm episodes, although not so much as to be provisionally considered heat waves.. It is about the days 2 and 3 of July and the days 29 to 31 of July. On the other hand, on July 25 and 26, temperatures were lower than normal for the time of year..

Specifically, the highest temperatures in this month of July were recorded at Córdoba airport, with 44.5ºC on the 17th; at the airports of Malaga and Granada with 44.2ºC on days 10 and 19 respectively; and in Murcia Alcantarilla-air base that on the 19th reached 43.9ºC.

During this period, six daily maximum temperature records were broken in the respective series of six observatories and there were 12 highest minimum temperature heat records..

The minimum temperatures were recorded in the main observatories of the Port of Navacerrada on the 25th, with 6.1ºC; in Salamanca-airport, with 7.3ºC on the 17th; 7.5ºC in Lugo-airport on July 16 or 8.3ºC in Molina de Aragón on July 26.

Regarding rainfall, the Aemet weather balance reflects that the month of July was very dry, since an average value of 9.9 liters per square meter was recorded, 41 percent less than the normal value for the period. reference 1991-2020.

With these records, July 2023 becomes the fourth driest in the 21st century and the 13th driest July since the beginning of the series in 1961..

By zones, July was between dry and very dry in almost the entire territory and became extremely dry, that is, the driest, in parts of northern León.

On the contrary, it was humid in parts of Galicia and in inland areas of Catalonia, Aragon, a large part of the Valencian Community, Murcia and Almería..

Likewise, in both archipelagos it was mostly dry, although in the Canary Islands it was humid or very humid in some of its islands, so overall it has turned out to be a normal month of July..

Thus, the highest amounts of daily precipitation at the main observatories were due in many cases to intense storms, with abundant precipitation in a short period of time..

In this sense, Aemet highlights the 36.5 liters per square meter in Valencia on July 3; 29.8 liters per square meter in Zaragoza-airport on the 6th, a day in which 29.7 liters per square meter fell in Pamplona. In Fuenterrabía, 28.4 liters per square meter were accumulated on the 24th and in Teruel, 22.6 liters per square meter on the 3rd..

Finally, the Aemet points out that the highest total volume of monthly precipitation was recorded in Fuenterrabía, with 87.9 liters per square meter; 61.7 liters per square meter in San Sebastián-Igueldo; the 41.2 liters per square meter in Santander-airport; 38.2 liters per square meter in Pamplona-airport and 37.2 liters per square meter in Zaragoza-airport.

Mental health problems have ceased to be a taboo subject since the pandemic, which brought to light a reality unknown to the general public: one in four people has had or will have a mental health problem. To date, attempts have been made to hide this situation for fear of social stigma, which means that more than half of the people with a disorder who need treatment do not receive it..

Some public figures have helped make this reality visible and normalize, such as Ricky Rubio's resignation this past weekend from his current basketball career to focus on his mental health problems or his return to competition in style of the North American gymnast Simone Biles this week.

But the truth is that eight out of ten people with a disease of this type cannot find a job, especially due to the ignorance and fear of employers to incorporate a person with problems that can range from anxiety and depression to schizophrenia. and bipolar disorder.

Faced with this, the Andalusian company UNEI, majority owned by the ONCE Social Group, through Ilunion, and the Junta de Andalucía, through the Andalusian Public Foundation for the Social Integration of People with Mental Illness (Faisem), has become a national benchmark in the fight for the labor inclusion of people with mental illness and other disabilities.

This firm was born as a brand at the end of 2020 to represent and publicize a project that has been carrying out social work for 30 years under the name Idema Grupo. In these last three years, UNEI has grown at great speed after an important process of internal modernization, investments and commitment to new business niches..

UNEI plans to end the year with 1,500 employees, 80% with some disability (50% with mental health problems). This represents a growth of 20% in just twelve months. Even better will be the result at the business level, with a turnover that will reach 25 million euros, which represents a 25% increase in business figures over the previous year..

As a non-profit company, UNEI fully reinvests its profits in projects that result in the creation of more job opportunities for people with disabilities.

The company has five business areas: “Smart supply” (smart supply), “Social and health” (health and society), “Services”, “Natura” and “Activa”. The first two are those that have registered the greatest growth, after a firm commitment by the company to grow in these two areas considered strategic.

Thus, last month, UNEI signed the contract by which it takes charge of the logistics operations of the more than 7,000 new communication devices of the Digital Emergency Network of Andalusia.. These are the teams that will be used for their communications by regional services such as those of the Infoca Plan, 112 Emergencies of Andalusia, the Public Health Emergencies Company (EPES), which coordinates the 061 service; the Autonomous Police, the operations in charge of operating the ski slopes of Sierra Nevada or the Hidrosur network, which manages the water basins.

The joint venture made up of Axion and Cellnex, awarded the contract by the Andalusian Government for the supply, installation, start-up, operation and maintenance of the Digital Emergency Network, has in turn entrusted UNEI with the reception, storage, configuration and delivery of all these devices.

Among its new projects, the expansion of its cold platform stands out, located in its logistics center in the Calonge business park. After the work, it will have 900 square meters of positive and frozen cold storage. With this commitment, the company seeks to attract more projects in the large distribution and food sector and create up to 40 additional jobs.

With this expansion, UNEI will be able to reach 5,000 cubic meters of storage capacity -both positive cold and freezing- and access market niches related to the food and distribution sector, cold specialists or community catering companies. The goal is for the facility to be fully operational in September.

In the “Social and Health” division, the company has a long history that allows it to be the first company in Spain in the coordination, installation, repair and maintenance service for Telecare providers, with 270,000 users, 170,000 annual installations and more than 250 employees in this area.

In addition, through its Services division, UNEI carries out cleaning, concierge, maintenance or access control tasks.. In this area, UNEI has more than 600 employees and provides 900,000 hours of service per year.

Likewise, from its Natura line, UNEI carries out gardening, landscaping, reforestation, cleaning and maintenance of beaches or environmental conservation, with more than 150 people employed and 275,000 hours of service per year in this line of business.. Emblematic projects stand out such as the gardening of the city of Jerez, the landscaping of the González Byass winery, in this same municipality, and the reforestation of the Green Belt of Granada.

Finally, UNEI manages two sports and leisure spaces in Jerez, Arena Village and The Racket Club, through its Activa division..

In terms of human resources, it should be noted that UNEI has Support Units (UdA), made up of a total of about 70 people. These teams are found in all its headquarters and work centers, to ensure the emotional well-being and adaptation to the position of the staff.