The scene is so close to us due to its recurrence in films, series and documentaries set in the southern states of the US.. But rarely had it been replicated with such accuracy in our country.. High hours of the morning. Any given day in January, at a specific point in the capital of Malaga. A large group of immigrants, mostly of sub-Saharan origin, shelters from the humidity that seeps into the bones while waiting. They open their doors and begin to select those who get on them. Their destiny: works distributed throughout Andalusia and Madrid in which they will work as bricklayers and security guards during marathon days and for just over 800 euros per month. Workers in an irregular situation, victims of a family business network led by a fifty-year-old patriarch capable of promoting an association to help and advise immigrants in which to attract cheap labor.

The criminal organization, based in the capital of Malaga, but which operated in different parts of the country, acted through a conglomerate of five companies dedicated to providing services to other firms in the construction sector.. Sources of the investigation, led by agents of Group II and IV of the Central Unit of Illegal Immigration Networks and Document Falsifications (Ucrif) of the Provincial Police Station of Malaga, explained to El Confidencial that those investigated allegedly used the identities of workers given from Social Security registration to introduce irregular immigrants into the labor market.

The leader of the organization held different positions in the investigated companies, such as an alleged association to help immigrants that the National Police have concluded that he used to recruit immigrants in an irregular situation as cheap labor. “They took advantage of the vulnerability of these people, and their desire to regularize their situation in the country, to offer them jobs that they carried out with the identity of another person,” explain the sources consulted.. “They paid the money that was budgeted for them without knowing that these employees received approximately 800 euros per month in cash”. A derisory amount if one takes into account the painful conditions that the plot imposed on them. “They had to eat and sleep inside the vehicles and, in addition, they carried out work as a laborer or construction security in days that continued beyond 24 hours,” said the aforementioned body..

The organized group, which faces charges of criminal association, human trafficking, document falsification and against the rights of workers, not only kept the difference in what was paid by the company that contracted its services, but also offered immigrants, who had more difficulties in accessing a rental house, bed and roof in exchange for paying a monthly rent.

The sources consulted detailed that those investigated offered cheap labor for construction in Malaga and the rest of the Andalusian provinces.. “In a timely manner”, also in Madrid. The concentration of a large number of people of North African and sub-Saharan origin in a specific place in the city generated a certain “neighborhood alarm”, and the residents of the area contacted the authorities.

The UCRIF agents took charge of the investigations, and these led, with some speed, to the immigrant aid association. The study of its corporate structure led to a businessman linked to various companies in the brick sector that, over the years, were replaced as they were activated and were discharged.. A middle-aged guy, with no background, with “little training” and a “low-medium” educational level who relied on a family network to develop his business. One of those capable of standing up in front of the investigators, refusing to testify and keeping silent before every question they ask.

This individual, like the rest of those investigated, took advantage of the vulnerability of his victims, whom he convinced to accept the leonine conditions that they were offered with “false promises to obtain the papers.”.

His arrest, like that of 17 other people, many of them collaborators in the plot, took place on May 17.. The agents carried out four searches in Malaga and inspected the association, investigated companies and a private address that was the headquarters of other companies. In these properties, 30,000 euros in cash, a high-end car, several mobile phones and documentation related to the case were located. An arrest occurred in Madrid.

The Togo operation has also allowed the imputation of four other people, as well as the blocking of 95,000 euros, two houses and 27 vehicles.

Take a look at the Spanish political panorama, adrift in recent decades with territorial issues, or simply “nationalist”, all that toll of the State to “plurinationality”, and do the same with the European in this third decade of the 21st century, and one can't stop being amazed. Due to the similarity of the predicaments. And by the difference of the solutions. “Fragmentation” is the common diagnosis prescribed so differently. Centripetal and regulated in Europe or centrifugal and anarchic in Spain. And it is that, in essence, any pro-independence party, PNV, Bildu, Junts or ERC, resembles, like two peas in a pod, in its nationalist postulates the extreme right. These make a stopper in Europe, those make a sink in Spain. Any enlightened, universalist or cosmopolitan compromise slogan is a tall tale.

Europe, beaten by the ravages of global crises and the emergence of a world in a geopolitical key, probes its integration in pursuit of everything. Here, questioning the Transition and its founding text, the Constitution of 78, is not even a national design, it is for the benefit of part. While the European project, a model for overcoming nationalism, is built on the strength of the rule of law, here, a delayed detonation of the same gives in servilely before them.

How not to qualify this “progress” as regressive, retrograde and reactionary. This drive for identity, this subtle xenophobia of our pro-independence Basques and Catalans to which the Government pays homage, has already been experienced to the point of paroxysm. That is precisely what Europe knows about.. After the world wars, German political science forged an antidote to its legacy, constitutional patriotism.. One that we would do well to learn in these moments of such institutional instability.. At the end of the day, as Santayana said: “Peoples that do not keep their past in mind are doomed to repeat it.”

In an attempt to recover a feeling of filiation to the country, without being held hostage to the invocation of identity traits, the German philosopher Habermas, a type of left (sic), promulgated this concept of constitutional patriotism. A community love for the laws, for the constitutional framework that governs it. And, in a classic, republican sense, like the one that could evoke a Cicero in ancient Rome or a Machiavelli in the Florentine State.. Come on, just like here with the Constitution of 78.

“Patriotism is to nationalism what health is to cancer”, I extract from another text. The first part of a felt love, but measured, to the territory in which one was born or grew up, pure contingency. The second makes of it a supine criterion of political priorities, a religion to be professed in all rules.. So hypocritical as to ignore the real world of the 21st century and the intricate web of interdependencies. So arrogant as to run against a spirit of civilization in what it has of cultural improvement.

When in the last two decades the parliamentary dynamics of income to the pivotal, Basque and Catalan nationalist parties has stagnated, the recent political guideline of our country is forged by circumventing our Constitution, as by default. Violence over basic constitutional precepts, beginning with “free and equal” and continuing with solidarity and inter-territorial cohesion, goes from surreptitious to obscene. Socialism, champion of equality, distributing perks and privileges among citizens of various categories.

The reissue of Frankenstein promises sadomasochistic pornography at the height of the moral and public integrity of the conductor. Self-determination referendum, amnesty, debt forgiveness, the FLA to auction, etc.. The perk to particularism is officiated as embezzlement to the State. It will be that nationalism was not so “appeased”, because indeed its nature is insatiability.

Without state pacts, we already point to an entire lost decade. The Constitution can be amended, without a doubt, but under the expected qualified majority of three fifths of Congress and an absolute majority of the Senate. What is glimpsed, without lights and stenographers with their backs to the staff, a poke in a poke, will materialize with the lax use of language and semantics, with legal tightrope walking, in the worst of “postmodern” politics.. Cool postmodernism, it is known, prides itself on not needing coherence or logic, and rejoices in legislating feelings.

The defection, the felony of the Frankenstein reissue, comes, then, to double power: to the constitutional framework and to the sign of the times, the European zeitgeist. When it is necessary to arrange, here it is confused. As if we had not been able to learn from our own history, succumbing to the territorial question. The effort, the dedication, the care, of 70 years to build the current EU, cannot rescind the cardinal purpose of overcoming nationalisms, according to Zweig, “the worst of all plagues”.

The affinity of the European Rules of Law in its programmatic parts, those that affect fundamental rights and freedoms and its organic functioning, is the voussoir of the entire political-legal structure that is Europe.. In that architecture, a kind of cathedral where constitutional patriotism is housed, without the rigor of law, the entire building falls. With Poland, now dedicated to strengthening the fight in Ukraine and winning integers, it is already a glimpse of which country accumulates tickets for the ban

The city of Madrid advances in its particular summer between works and improvements in its streets and in the public transport network. For weeks, the country's capital has undergone a transformation that is requiring some adjustments for citizens who need to travel. If you are in Madrid, pay attention to this guide that El Confidencial has prepared so that you can plan your routes without problems. Although this section will remain closed until the end of October, the rest of the underground service will not be affected. To help users, there is a special free bus service that covers the disabled section. As of this Saturday, works will also begin on Metro Line 9 —in the section between the Colombia and Príncipe de Vergara stations—. The objective is to remodel the roofs and waterproofing systems, among other improvements.

🔉🚇 REMEMBER: tomorrow, Saturday August 5, modernization works begin on L9 between Colombia and Príncipe de Vergara.
🚍 A substitute bus service will be launched.
ℹ All the info: https://t.co/XsCriB1vym#ObrasL9 #TrabajamosParaTi pic.twitter.com/56MAPRi9HY

– Madrid Metro (@metro_madrid) August 4, 2023

closed streets

The little ones also have their space to enjoy in the city. During weekends and holidays, several streets are closed to traffic. Fuencarral, between Quevedo and Bilbao; Camoens promenade and Ruperto Chapí promenade; Paseo del Prado, between Plaza de Carlos V and Plaza de Cibeles. Also Arcentales avenue, between Miguel Yuste and Ajofrín; the Gran Vía del Este, between Aurora Boreal and Avenida de las Comunidades; Francisco Largo Caballero, between Hermanos García Noblejas and Avenida de Daroca, west, and Arturo Soria, between Josefa Valcárcel and Alcalá. It allows children up to 12 years old to ride a bicycle, scooter or skates accompanied by an adult on foot, argues the Consistory.

Madrid renews itself, and that also includes its tunnels and highways. Over the next few months, several improvement and rehabilitation works will be carried out in different parts of the city. This is the case of the Francisco Silvela tunnel, under Avenida de América. It will remain closed to traffic from August 1 to 31 due to accessibility works at the Avenida de América Metro station.

Until the first half of September, the tunnel under the Plaza de Manuel Becerra will also be closed to traffic due to repair and conditioning works. Traffic cuts will continue in various areas and sectors of the M-30 while the agglomerate works are carried out. On the Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza, there will continue to be interruptions due to work on the Canal de Isabel II until at least mid-September, according to the Consistory.

Works in the Puerta del Sol

The Madrid City Council plans to complete at the end of August those actions that required authorization from Metro de Madrid for affecting its structures (ventilation grilles and slabs in poor condition) at Puerta del Sol. The access to the Adif station and the elevator of this station still need to have the pending authorizations of this body to be conditioned.

They will finish in autumn

Some of the works will finish in autumn. For example, the second phase of the ring road around the historic center of Barajas along Calle Ayerbe is scheduled to end after the summer months.. The Consistory indicates that there are still auctions in the planting of the new park and children's games, which have to come from Germany. It represents a municipal investment of five million euros, added to the 1.5 million of the first phase, which will allow the mobility of the area, freeing the interior streets of the town from passing traffic, in order to expand the pedestrian areas and the accessibility around the Plaza Mayor.

At the same time, the works of the Plaza de Pontejos and its surroundings will also be completed. Like the performances in the Plaza de Mostenses. The surrounding streets are already finished and now, according to municipal sources, they will focus on the square itself. The project for the Plaza de la Emperatriz, in Carabanchel, has delayed its deadlines and will not finish until autumn. According to the Department of Works and Equipment of the Consistory, it has a budget of 3.3 million euros.

Cercanías accumulates delays

The Madrid Cercanías Service has been accumulating several delays in its journeys. If you visit the capital, you should know that, during this year, there have been 341 incidents, 41% more than in 2022, according to data from the Community of Madrid, which, however, is not the owner of this service, in the hands of the Ministry of Transport. On Thursday afternoon, the company reported long delays due to an incident at the Adif Centralized Traffic Center.

Cercanías also reported that the usual service of lines C1, C2, C3, C3a, C4A, C4B, C5, C7, C8, C9 and C10 was modified last Friday due to improvement works at the Chamartín station..

Works that will end in 2024

Madrid City Council plans to finish two new projects next year. The first, on Avenida de la Ilustración, on its southern flank. The reform began after that of the northern flank and will conclude in the spring of 2024. Work will begin this month in the center of the Plaza de Olavide, and the Consistory plans to finish the work in the summer of next year.

We will have to wait a little longer to see the completion of the passage under the railway tracks in the Pozo del Tío Raimundo. The works for the construction of this vehicle crossing and the transformation of the current crossing into an accessible pedestrian and cyclist access, is in the process of execution and will end, reports the works area, between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.

It was one of the anecdotes and, also, one of the very few leaks of images that occurred from the wedding of Tamara Falcó and Íñigo Onieva. At one point during the ceremony, the fire from one of the candles in the candelabra on the nuptial altar lit the chasuble of one of the three priests who officiated at the marriage..

Linked to the diocese of Valencia, where he is episcopal vicar for Culture and Institutional Relations appointed by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, who was archbishop until autumn 2022, Father José Luis not only appears giving spiritual support to the famous homeland. He is also playing an influential role behind the scenes in the internal life of Vox in the Valencian Community and in the distribution of the positions that correspond to those of Santiago Abascal in the coalition government pact with the Popular Party of the new president Carlos Mazón, in whose Government Elisa Núñez, niece of the religious, has been appointed Minister of Justice by the voxist quota.

Linked to the Catholic University of Valencia, where he has been vice-rector and senior chaplain, the priest, who has not responded to messages from El Confidencial, is known for his ability to discreetly weave social relations and move between the local bourgeoisie and Catholic environments. “He likes to move out of the spotlight and have the ability to influence,” explain those who know him. His was the initiative to move the name of Núñez as Minister of Justice in compliance with the pact between Vox and the Popular Party, according to ESdiario..

The movement upset the local structure of Vox, which, for the moment, has seen how almost none of the people who held starting positions in the regional candidacies have held first or second level positions in the regional government.. Only José Luis Aguirre, who was facing his second legislature as regional deputy, has been placed as Minister of Agriculture. The main candidate for the position of Núñez, the former provincial president of Vox, José María Llanos, was left without options to access the Council after the statements in which he denied sexist violence.

The team formation process has generated discomfort in the local structures of Abascal's party. Despite having been an appointment within the Vox quota, Núñez, a lawyer and lawyer accredited before the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Court of Valencia, is a person who has been linked to the Popular Party. She was an adviser to the Ministry of Cooperation during the Rafael Blasco period, later convicted of diverting public aid to developing countries, and she is related to José María Felip, who was one of Blasco's trusted men.. Fan of mountains and hiking, the new councilor and Felip have participated in activities of the Aitana Mountain Group of the Spanish Youth Organization (OJE) in the Valencian Community.

José Luis Sánchez, according to sources familiar with El Confidencial, not only would have had enough ancestry to convince those around Santiago Abascal and the new president of the Generalitat, the popular Carlos Mazón, with a direct link to the leader of Vox, of the desirability of placing Núñez as head of the Department of Justice. With good relations at the time with the powerful Minister of Culture in the previous stage of the Popular Party, Consuelo Císcar, the priest has also promoted names such as the theologian and artist of conceptual religious pieces José Cosme, director of the Chair of Art Contemporary Latin American shared by the Catholic University of Valencia and the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) and a person also linked to the conservative Valencian bourgeoisie.

However, Cosme does not seem to have passed the casting of Vox recruiters so far, among whom Ignacio Hoces, deputy in Congress for Badajoz, but also Montserrat Lluís, current general director of Coordination and Social Interaction of the Board. from Castile and Leon. In Vox's hypervertical structure in decision-making, Lluís has acquired an important role when it comes to filtering names, according to the same sources, even above regional leaders such as provincial president Ignacio Gil Lázaro.

Considered the shadow of the Castilian-Leonese vice president of Vox, Juan García Gallardo, and the liaison with Abascal, Montserrat Lluís was deputy director of the ABC newspaper and general director of the Episcopal Conference media grouped in Ábside Media (COPE and Trece TV), until she was removed from office due to internal group quarrels. Lluís was announced as number eight by Madrid on the Vox list for Congress in the general elections on July 23, but this forced him to resign from the position in Castilla y León, which is why, finally, he disappeared from the candidacy.

The ultra-conservatives, who have had problems finding profiles to cover the second and third echelons in the Generalitat Valenciana, have finally chosen the unpopular Paula Añó as regional secretary of Culture and number two to the first vice president, the former bullfighter Vicente Barrera. Añó has also passed through the heir parties of Ciudadanos in Catalonia BCN Canvi and Valents, and became known for his positions against independence. Specialized in communication and with postgraduate degrees in International Relations and Business, she is now returning to her hometown, Valencia, where she already advised the Ministry of the Environment in the previous stage of the Popular Party, before the 2015 change, according to her resume. distributed by the Generalitat.

The Local Police of Granada has opened an investigation into a 67-year-old man who was caught hanging a few-month-old dog by a rope by her neck in the air, a behavior that made a young man who allegedly threatened him ugly..

This has been indicated on their social networks, consulted by Europa Press, by the Local Police of Granada, which has indicated that it was this young man who, this past Thursday, before 5:00 p.m., called because he had seen in the center of the city that allegedly “a man was mistreating a puppy of a few months of life”.

He would have been moving her “in dead weight, dragging her along the ground and hanging her with a rope that was strangling her”. Minutes later, a local police unit in civilian clothes and a unit from the Albaicín appeared to try to locate the alleged abuser..

Later, the uniformed unit located the man inside a bar. He recognized it from the description provided, but he did not see the dog, which was hidden at the entrance of the establishment, according to the information provided by the municipal security force..

The agents told the man to leave the bar and asked him about the animal, and he left grumpy and defiant, alluding to the fact that he knew “why” they were there and who had “called” them.. Then I would have taken the dog from behind the blind of the establishment.

Then he would have taken her again from the rope that was tied around her neck and, in the same way, “she showed the puppy hanging from her neck in the air.”. The animal was confiscated and transferred to Jefatura before taking it to an adoption center in the capital of Granada, which has already found a new owner for it..

The National Police has detained a 28-year-old Spanish youth in Melilla on whom a search and arrest warrant has been ordered by the German court for the alleged commission of a crime of attempted homicide and another of injuries allegedly committed on some nightclub bouncers who had kicked him out on New Year's Eve 2017.

As reported this Friday by a spokesman for the Melilla Police Headquarters, the man is being claimed after being accused of running over “up to three times with a rental vehicle one of the doormen of a Düsseldorf nightclub from which he was expelled “.

The aforementioned source has detailed that the events date back to January 1, 2018. “The German police were trying to locate a young man of Spanish nationality who, after being expelled from a Düsseldorf nightclub early on New Year's Eve, as revenge, deliberately lashed out with his vehicle accelerating at the four doormen who were on the public road next to the back door of the premises, running over two of them in a very narrow street that made it difficult to escape”.

Next, the young man, who was 23 years old at the time, “reversed, trying to run over them again, succeeding with one of them who was injured on the ground, maneuvered again to run over the victim for the third time, relentlessly with him who by then lay unconscious, causing brain hemorrhages and multiple fractures, fleeing “.

The police spokesman explained that the victim was admitted to intensive care “and, although fortunately his life is no longer in danger, he does have serious consequences”.

The alleged perpetrator of these events was identified this Thursday by a police officer from the DNI Office and the Instructor from the Complaints Office of the Higher Police Headquarters of Melilla, his city of birth, “where he intended to renew the identity document, who proceeded to their arrest, and the transfer of the proceedings to the Specialized and Violent Crime Unit (UDEV) in coordination with Europol through the International Cooperation Division”.

The arrestee, a Spanish national, 28 years old and with four previous arrests in Spain (three of them for injuries), was aware of this European Arrest and Surrender Order for his extradition decreed by the German judicial authorities for crimes of injuries and attempted homicide.

After spending a night in the dungeons of the Spanish city in North Africa, the man was placed this Friday at the disposal of the Central Court of Instruction number 3 of the National Court through the Court of Instruction number 5 of Melilla on duty. , who decreed his entry into prison.

A 20-year-old man attacked two police officers and the medical personnel who were treating him in a building in the center of Ciudad Real with two knives, and was finally arrested after receiving three bullets in the leg, as he was very aggressive.

As reported by the National Police this Friday in a press release, two agents of the Ciudad Real National Police have received separate cuts on the forearm and neck when they attended the medical service of the General University Hospital of Ciudad Real in the reduction of a patient with a psychiatric history who was “extremely aggressive”.

The detainee is a 20-year-old man with a psychiatric history who, brandishing two knives, attacked the agents and the medical personnel who were assisting him. Given the aggressiveness shown by the young man, the police officers used their service weapon and the attacker received three bullet wounds in the leg.

After the attack, he barricaded himself in a room where he was finally arrested by the National Police for the crimes of attacking an agent of authority and injuries.. After the arrest, he was transferred to the General University Hospital of Ciudad Real where he remains admitted with a reserved prognosis..

Both the police officers and their attacker are out of danger..

A fire declared in the forest area near the Portbou reservoir (Girona), on the coastal border with France, currently burns ten hectares of land and forces the N-260 road to be cut, while residents are advised that they close the windows in case of inconvenience due to smoke.

The Generalitat fire brigade reports the deployment of twenty-three units since mid-afternoon, although the strong tramontana wind that is blowing, which is expected to reach 100 kilometers per hour, makes extinguishing tasks difficult, in which French media also collaborate.

According to Civil Protection, the fire was declared around 4:39 p.m. and the priority of the troops, including six air crews, is focused on the tail of the right flank to prevent the flames from spreading..

I set fire to Portbou Cholera
Images from Cap de vol (El Port de la selva)#incendie #llanca #incendi #bombers #Bomberos pic.twitter.com/pv2hwfkpl9

— Tom Potter (@Tompoter) August 4, 2023

The firefighters from the Portbou Volunteer Park and the rest of the Girona volunteers who have been activated by protocol are still “unavailable” within the protest they maintain due to the conditions in which they provide service.

The municipality of Colera confined

The residents of Colera (Girona) are confined by the fire in the nearby town of Portbou, on the border with France, including the Sant Miquel campsite and the center of La Rovellada, according to Civil Protection reports.

Firefighters from the Generalitat are working with twenty-nine ground crews and four air crews at the moment, with the difficulty of the strong wind that blows in the area, but with the help of French troops.

Portbou fire seen from Colera. @meteocat @meteorac1 @324cat @elpuntavui @eltempsTV3 pic.twitter.com/4T2hz8WP00

— Xevi_veremaire #RiseUp4Rojava (@veremaire) August 4, 2023

The N-260 road is closed between kilometers 0 and 11, which is equivalent to the section that goes from Colera to the border with the neighboring country. The body of Rural Agents estimates the area burned at 6:40 p.m. in about fifty hectares, although these are provisional data..

It already affects 150 hectares

The fire in Portbou (Girona) already affects around 150 hectares, according to the latest update from Agentes Rurales. The cut of the N-260 highway between the border with France and Colera has been extended another five and a half kilometers and extends from 0 to 16.5.

Firefighters from the Generalitat, aided by the French counterpart, are currently working with 46 ground crews and two air means, which are faced with the difficulty of the strong wind that blows in the area.

Eight people evicted

Eight people have been evicted from different farmhouses near Portbou due to the fire that broke out in this town on the border with France and that has forced the population of the neighboring municipality of Colera to be confined.

According to reports from the Generalitat Fire Brigade, sixty crews are currently working on extinction tasks without the option of intervention by air means due to the strong wind blowing in the area, although conditions are being monitored to find windows that allow access by surveillance planes and attack, as well as helicopters.

The fire, with the capacity to generate secondary outbreaks, is advancing downwards pushed by the north wind and by windbreaks and, without the firefighters being able to attack it from above, it is expected to reach forest tracks.

For now, the work is concentrated on the left flank and there is the advantage that a large area of bovine pastures located strategically to the north of Colera stops the flames.

The N-260 road is cut for more than sixteen kilometers between the border and the town of Llançà to allow the mobility of emergency personnel.

Attention to the fire 🔥 that is near #Llançà in Portbou. And the north wind that blows 🌬️ hardly lets you stand! 😨
I can't even imagine how the @bomberscat work in these conditions! A lot of strength! 💪🧑 🚒
#fire #fire pic.twitter.com/tTHQ9F9BlY

— Nacho Cougil 🇺🇦 🕊 (@icougil) August 4, 2023

Civil Protection keeps the Infocat plan on alert and monitors the fire in contact with the affected municipalities. It also maintains communication with the railway infrastructure manager Adif in relation to the circulation of trains through this area..

Jorge Azcón (PP) will be the new president of Aragon after closing a government agreement with Vox. The pact expressly includes several of the claims expressed by both parties for political change in the region, after eight years in office of Javier Lambán (PSOE). Among other issues, emphasis is placed on the comprehensive reform of the trans law, the immediate suppression of the Autonomous Democratic Memory Law and the position of the ultra-conservative formation is qualified with the transfer of the Ebro, which is no longer a requirement.

The programmatic document for the constitution of a coalition Executive, signed this Friday, consists of 80 points with eight strategic areas. Another of the details of this negotiation delves into several of the ideological battles that Vox is pursuing and that the Azcón PP has accepted: the suppression of the General Directorate for Language Policy and the commissioners of the 2030 Agenda, Childhood and Depopulation.

Another of the agreements has been in tax matters, where the harmony has been maximum. In this regard, personal income tax will be lowered by half a point for Aragonese who declare up to 50,000 euros, as well as the 99% bonus on wealth tax up to 700,000 euros..

Sexist violence is not touched

The most thorny issue for PP and Vox, both during the electoral campaign and in the negotiation, is the treatment of sexist violence. This aspect has been more than saved by Azcón, and even with a political claim in the government agreement. Thus, in the signed document, it is stated that the protection of women will be ensured and the fight against “macho violence” is expressly cited with funds for the protection and guarantee of all their rights.. In this sense, the elimination of the Aragonese Women's Institute is not included in any case.

🔵🟢🤝 We signed a government agreement between @pparagon and @aragonvox. An agreement that is the faithful reflection of the majority of change that the Aragonese voted for and that aims to improve the lives of the Aragonese and give Aragon the stable and strong government it needs. pic.twitter.com/5OLyahBQ4M

– PP of Aragon (@pparagon) August 4, 2023

The letter contains, in turn, a section on the illegal occupation of housing and where it is detailed that the Executive of Jorge Azcón will demand that the Government of Spain make possible “the express eviction in 24 hours” of the occupied houses. These commitments signed between PP and Vox, which have been signed and acquired by their parliamentary spokespersons, Ana Alós for the popular and Alejandro Nolasco for the right-wing formation, also includes a distribution of positions in the Aragonese Government. Azcón was not present in the photo signed by the coalition.

Vox will obtain two councils, and one of them will have the rank of first vice presidency, which will be held by Nolasco. The rest of the ministries and their protagonists is a well-kept secret by both teams. The only clue, according to sources from the Aragonese PP, is that the future Executive will have “moderate” profiles from Vox. They do not want any leader who generates controversy or noise in the autonomous government. at least on paper.

68 days until reaching an agreement

Jorge Azcón has had to change his speech as political circumstances changed since May 28, more than two months ago. Once the governability of Spain was cleared after 23-J and the position of weakness of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the future Aragonese president sought by all means to unblock the negotiation and renounce his initial claim to govern alone. A situation that has been admitted by Vox, by renouncing part of the requirements that they had defined for weeks, such as the management of three regional councils. Santiago Abascal's party, however, already holds the presidency of the Cortes de Aragón, with the strident Marta Fernández in office.

Among other possible movements in the Executive is the entry of the Aragonese Party (PAR), the formation that has been governing with Javier Lambán these last four years in a quadripartite and whose essence is deeply Aragonese and autonomist, against the sentiment of Vox, to despite being another party with a conservative soul. This future is none other than the need for economic survival of the PAR after only achieving a single regional deputy.

VOX has fulfilled its electoral promise and has asserted the votes of the Aragonese.

Freedom, family, aid to the countryside, security and tax cuts. Main blocks of an agreement with which a “change of direction” begins in #Aragónhttps://t.co/4Qu1fDkROF https://t.co/YlIschxKK6

— VOX Parliamentary Group in the Parliament of Aragon (@aragonvox) August 4, 2023

“This is the agreement” that includes that “the Governing Council will be made up of PP and Vox,” declared the popular spokesperson Ana Alós. “From there, we continue working on parliamentary agreements,” he added.. For the moment, apart from the unanimous rejection of this agreement by the political left in the Aragonese Parliament, the rejection of Teruel Existe and Tomás Guitarte to the future investiture of Azcón has been loud, despite being partners in the Teruel Provincial Council. The reason is none other than the presence of Vox, whom the formation of emptied Spain has already said it would never support..

In the act of signing the Government agreement, one of the architects of the future Government of Aragon was present, the former Secretary of State for Public Administrations with the PP of Mariano Rajoy and warper of article 155 in Catalonia, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro. Both he and other popular leaders have been preparing the future Azcón team and its main lines in recent weeks, from the most relevant positions to the investee companies or intermediate positions.