The Provincial Court of Teruel has sentenced a young man to three years in prison as the perpetrator of attempted murder for attacking another with a knife during a discussion on a street in the capital of Teruel, although the sentence establishes that the prison sentence be replaced by the expulsion of this person, a Colombian national, from Spanish territory for six years.

In addition, since the victim had to be hospitalized due to the injuries suffered, the convicted person must compensate him with 7,228.32 euros and the Aragonese Health Service with 2,827.37 euros, both amounts with the corresponding legal interest, plus payment of the costs of the trial..

The judgment considers as proven facts that at around 6:30 a.m. on December 8, 2022, the defendant, now 23 years old, was as co-driver in a vehicle driven by a friend, in the city of Teruel, and upon reaching a narrow point on the road, brushed the rear-view mirror against a pedestrian, Mohamed F., who was walking down the street, who reacted by hitting the car with his hand..

For this reason, the driver stopped the car, getting out of the defendant, who, annoyed by the reaction that the pedestrian had had, got into an argument and a fight with him..

Despite the fact that his friend and driver got him to return to the vehicle and they left the place, a few meters later they decided to return, and waited with the passenger window down for Mohamed to arrive, who approached the vehicle and through the window hit the defendant on the head, who, for his part, stabbed him in the chest with a bladed weapon that he was carrying in his hand ready for use..

Mohamed hit the defendant on the head again and he responded again with another attack with a knife, although the addressee managed to dodge it, although due to the open incised wound received in the chest, a short distance from the aorta vein, with life-threatening, he had to be transferred to the hospital, where he required medical treatment with emergency surgery, injuries that healed in 32 days, with seven serious and 25 moderate personal damage, in addition to suffering aesthetic sequelae.

Hours later, and before the procedure and police action had identified the author, he appeared to confess the fact before a police officer, as a result of which the procedure was directed against him.. Likewise, it has consigned 3,000 euros to attend civil responsibilities.

For this fact, he is considered the author of an attempted murder crime, with the concurrence of mitigating circumstances modifying the criminal responsibility of confession and damage repair..

A mother has allegedly tried to kill her three children, ages three, five and nine, in the town of Fitero, and then tried to commit suicide, as reported by the Civil Guard. The minors have been injured and have been transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra, in Pamplona.

The events took place around 12:00 this Thursday in Fitero, when the two eldest children went out into the street asking for help and the neighbors called the Civil Guard, who, after entering the home with the two minors, found the mother with her third son, three years old..

As reported by the Civil Guard, everything points to an attempted murder by his mother, who has subsequently tried to commit suicide by ingesting a poison, although she has not succeeded.. She has been transferred to the Tuleda Hospital, where she remains detained..

The minors, for their part, have been transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra, in Pamplona. Agents of the Judicial Police Team of the Foral Community are investigating these events.

The mayor of Fitero, Miguel Aguirre, explained this Thursday that the town is “dismayed, totally surprised and totally concerned” after learning that a neighboring mother from the town has allegedly tried to kill her three children, aged three, five and nine..

Miguel Aguirre has pointed out in statements to Europa Press that “in a population of 2,000 inhabitants, you never think that this is going to happen, but it has happened and our bodies are frozen”.

Aguirre explained that he heard the news around 1:00 p.m.. “A neighbor called me to let me know that there was a lot of police movement on a street,” said the mayor, to point out that he has subsequently moved to the place.

A 42-year-old Moroccan man has died of a “heat stroke” at the Santa Lucía de Cartagena hospital to which he was transferred after collapsing on a street in Mazarrón, as confirmed by the Murcia Region Health Department.

The death was announced this Thursday, but it took place yesterday at the aforementioned health center and it is the first death this year from a heat stroke in this autonomous community, which since last Tuesday was hit by an anticyclone that has caused thermometers to exceed 40 degrees in almost the entire area, added to an intense haze due to Saharan dust..

The man was admitted to the Cartagena hospital after collapsing to the ground on Tuesday evening when he was in La Majada (Mazarrón) in the company of a compatriot, who was the one who called 112 to ask for help since his friend was unconscious on the ground, according to information released by the newspaper La Opinión de Murcia..

Agents of the Mazarrón Local Police and a mobile emergency unit (UME) attended the Majada, whose toilets transferred the man to the Santa Lucía de Cartagena hospital, where he arrived in critical condition until he died hours later..

The body was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for an autopsy to clarify the cause of death..

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Since Pedro Sánchez assumed the presidency of the Government, there are many nicknames that his detractors have used to try to ridicule him or, as the president himself would say, to “dehumanize” him.. One of the most profound has been that of “Perro Sánchez”, or its variant “Perro Sanxe”. In the case of this nickname, and although its exact origin is somewhat uncertain, it has been used from network sites such as Twitter and Forocoches even since long before Sánchez arrived in Moncloa, although over the years it has come to become more popular. In fact, the curious thing is that today it has become a transversal nickname, and even some supporters of the president use it in a friendly way, giving new meaning to an alias that originally had rather negative connotations..

No one will be surprised that the nickname began to make its way in Forocoches, a community conducive to the use of the most ingenious disqualifiers when talking about politicians, especially when they are from the left.. If we do a search in their forum, we see that in threads from 2014 there were those who already called Perro Sánchez the then presidential candidate. And not only to criticize him, but sometimes they also used that name to speak well of him.

To me the “sanxe dog” freaks me out because on the one hand there is a twitter-facha who uses it as an insult and then there are those of us who have resignified it and in our heads it is almost a show of affection hahahahaha 🫶🏻🐶 pic.twitter. com/uyEsmU2xwI

—Mr. Handsome (@pdrsnche) June 26, 2023

On Twitter there are also vestiges of early uses of the nickname, such as a parody account from 2016. It's actually a very simple word game, where you only have to change one letter, so it would stand to reason that different people would have come up with it over time.. However, the use of the nickname skyrocketed after Sánchez became president.. More and more memes began to emerge with this name, and it was used in videos that went viral.. One of the most influential was the one that starred a child in 2021 when, asked by a Telemadrid journalist about the closure of the Navacerrada ski resort, he exclaimed: “Don't close it, Perro Sánchez, you're the worst”.

A resigned nickname

The left, and more specifically the PSOE itself, has ended up picking up the gauntlet and redefining the nickname with a positive or even heroic interpretation, as Deku did with his in My Hero Academia.. After years in which the president's detractors have chanted “Perro Sánchez” to shape their attacks, now the socialist leader's allies are trying to turn the nickname on its head..

A very clear example of this is in the recent action of the Socialist Youth: they have created a video game called The Unbeatable Game of Perro Sánchez. It is a simple game of answering questions, which reveals some of the Government's achievements as part of this electoral campaign, but titled it like that is a declaration of intent.

Doesn't the Sanxe Dog game exist? 🤔

The game of the unbeatable Sanxe Dog appeared wildly 😎

Run ➡️🫵🏼 https://t.co/YkIvLwELDK pic.twitter.com/6dxL7RUcEc

— Socialist Youth (@JSE_ORG) July 14, 2023

Sánchez himself, although not long ago said in interviews that “it is not nice” to be referred to by names like Perro Sánchez, more recently he has dealt with this issue in a more playful and carefree way, in his visit to the podcast La Pija y la Quinqui. He emphasized that “it is an experience that has been turned around”, and that he even loves the meme of “the dog sanxe knows more for a dog than for a sanxe”.

The Sanxe Dog is here to stay pic.twitter.com/g2mfddDsuw

— Public Education (@emofacc) July 17, 2023

Now, those who create the most Perro Sánchez memes and jokes are the socialists themselves and their allies, and the hashtag #PerroSanxe is a trend on Twitter these days. In short, it is a curious story of how an insult has ended up turning into a friendly and transversal nickname, which is something worthy of merit.

Less than a week before the general elections on July 23, various issues that generate curiosity among citizens are put on the table, such as, for example, the salary of those who have options to occupy the Presidency of the Government of Spain, as well as from other political bodies. Here the figure of the deputies arises, who are the ones who make up the Lower Chamber of the Cortes Generales -the constitutional body that represents the Spanish people-, where all the political parties meet and the approval of laws or the validation or repeal of Decrees-Laws.

The interest in this issue is sharpening after the application of its last salary increase, which was approved last year and runs this 2023. The Congress Table then approved its Budget for 2023, which included the forecast of raising the salary of deputies by 3.5%, an increase in line with that proposed by the Government for public employees. The decision was adopted with the support of the representatives of the PSOE and the deputy of United We Can, Gloria Elizo, and with the rejection of PP and Vox.

According to the data available on the Transparency Portal of Congress, a deputy has a base salary of 3,126.89 gross euros per month, being the same allowance for everyone and the one set for this 2023. However, this is not his final salary. To this are added the “aid, franchises and compensation for expenses that are essential for the fulfillment of its function”, according to Article 8.2 of the Regulations of the Congress of Deputies.

Transportation and diets

To this amount, a monthly compensation must also be included, which for those elected by Madrid receive 958.75 euros, while those elected by other provinces receive a plus of 2,008.61 euros. Another point to take into account is transportation.. The Congress of Deputies covers the costs of transportation by public means (plane, train, car or ship) made by them, as well as the costs derived from parking at train stations and airports. Likewise, they receive allowances for the trips they have to make for official trips authorized by the Bureau of 150 euros per day for trips abroad and 120 euros per day for nationals..

Revenues may increase based on positions performed. If the deputies hold a position on the Bureau or on the Board of Spokespersons, they receive a supplement. For example, another salary is added to his deputy salary depending on his performance in Congress:

• President of the Congress: 933.65 euros gross per month
• Vice President of the Congress: 179.37 euros gross per month
• Congress Secretary: 650.19 euros gross per month
• Parliamentary group spokesperson: 896.98 euros gross per month
• Deputy spokesperson for a parliamentary group: 262.42 euros gross per month

How much do deputies earn in commissions:

• President: 551.58 euros gross per month
• Vice President: 134.40 euros gross per month
• Secretary: 756.27 euros gross per month
• Spokesperson: 134.40 euros gross per month
• Deputy spokesperson: 756.27 euros gross per month

An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 has been registered near Utrera around 05:44:40 this Thursday, July 20, according to data collected by the National Geographic Institute (IGN). The epicenter has been located just 5 kilometers from Algodonales, in the province of Cádiz and has been recorded kilometers deep.

No material or personal damage should have occurred, since the intensity of the earthquake has been low, having been perceived only in Coripe, Puerto Serrano or Zahara.

The IGN makes available to the public a macro-seismic questionnaire through which those affected can report what their experiences have been. The questionnaire, which was promoted by Fernando VI after the earthquake that Lisbon suffered in 1755, allows citizens to transfer to the official body information such as what they were doing during the tremor, what their reaction was and if the objects around them moved.

With this information, together with the information collected by the seismographs, the IGN can alert the population of the intensity of the earthquakes and calculate the damages that they may have caused in the affected territory..

The earthquake this Thursday was not the first this week. In fact, during the last days three tremors have been registered, and so far this month, the number rises to 11. Thus, the one experienced this Thursday is the strongest that has been experienced in the area in the last six months, above that registered on July 1 of this year, which reached a magnitude of 2.9.

Macarena is a lawyer with two children who lives in the neighborhood of La Chopera, in the south of Madrid.. He has an alarm set at 8:50, to which he responds with the diligence of a soldier facing a bombardment. “When the phone rings, I run like crazy to the computer,” she tells this newspaper. What it does is load and reload a page until 9:00, at which time the tickets go on sale.

This modus operandi, previously reserved for concerts and festivals, today concerns municipal swimming pools. Macarena knows that if she is not ready in the seconds after the town hall starts the sale, she will be left without a ticket to the Peñuelas pool.. He has studied it very well: “The normal thing is that they last between three and eight minutes, but there are days that do not even last two. When the alarm goes off, I stop whatever I'm doing, whether it's feeding the kids breakfast, taking a shower or, like yesterday, running up the street like a madwoman,” she says..

As for so many other parents, especially during a heat wave like the one we are going through, unparalleled since 1975, getting a place in the pool means having a calm morning. When he doesn't get it, the Via Crucis arrives: “Then I have to get into another pool, which means putting two small children on a bus, or convincing a friend to let us go to hers.”. At home, with this heat, we cannot be”, explains.

Someone explain to me why it is absolutely impossible to book a ticket to the Peñuelas pool, when there is usually room in the rest.

Are we facing the Live Nation of swimming pools? Here you have to make chicha pic.twitter.com/IkbDhkuKZA

— Ismael Monzón (@IsmaMonzon) July 18, 2023

Macarena's problem is the problem of hundreds of residents of the Arganzuela district. This summer they have found that the 540 morning pool tickets fly for no apparent reason. Once inside the enclosure, they explain, often it is not crowded. Where have all the tickets gone?

Last Friday a poster appeared on the door of the venue. Like Luther, he was going with the intention of causing trouble: “A cartel of fathers and mothers massively and organized a large number of the available tickets for the Peñuelas pool to later distribute them among the friends of a WhatsApp group”.

The cartel has generated an extraordinary stir in the neighborhood, which feels that they are usurping access to a municipal facility. Perhaps because of the focus of the text, the most annoying are the citizens without children. Cristina, 54 years old and a resident of Valdelasierra street, is a patron of the pool. “I'm sorry to say, but parents kill everything. They drop their children in the pool and do not pay the slightest attention to them. I have been going to Peñuelas for many years and I do not know the number of times that children have stepped on me, thrown me while swimming or hit balls. That now they keep the tickets seems like the last straw to me,” says the neighbor, who has contacted the Municipal District Board to tackle this situation.. According to his version, the Board has confirmed that they are aware of the existence of this group and, more specifically, of its creator..

The input group

This newspaper has been able to verify that the group exists and that it is made up mostly of parents. It is called “Peñueñas pool” and it is made up of more than 400 neighbors (400 is the limit WhatsApp has in groups). It was created by a neighborhood teacher and mother, nicknamed Roxy, to prevent tickets from being wasted when someone cannot use them, as she explained to ElDiario. Members of the group point out that the person responsible for the revolt is a neighbor, a Telemadrid worker without children, who has taken the issue personally.

The only rule that prevails in the group is not to talk about anything other than pool tickets. When someone has something to sell, they say it in the common forum and those interested are arranged privately. After a day, around 50 tickets are exchanged, theoretically for their starting price. Macarena, who does not have access to the group, receives the news with great anger: “It must be some kind of lobby for parents in the area. Here we are all very modern, you know? Those of us who take our children to schools abroad are excluded from neighborhood life, that's how sad it is”.

Another neighbor of the neighborhood, Miguel, laments the municipal system of access to swimming pools. “It's completely wasted. If, for example, five people go to the pool from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., when they leave there are five vacancies, but no one else can enter. This neighbor also admits that, due to the low price of the entrance, two euros, many find it worthwhile to buy them in advance, before knowing their plans: “Then, if you can't go, well, nothing, you only lose two euros. Better to have it and not be able to go than the other way around”. The point is that a neighbor, who did want to go, has run out of tickets.

In Madrid, a municipal swimming pool has not been built for 31 years. Since then, half a million more people reside in the city, and every day it is more difficult to access the bathroom. There are 142,642 inhabitants for each one, the highest average of the interior provincial capitals, while seven districts do not have any pool where they can refresh their neighbors.

The socialist Paco Vázquez, former mayor of A Coruña and Knight of the Order of the British Empire, among others, spoke at ease, a little over a month ago, about the insecurity of voting by mail. He came to tell us that, as a citizen, he did not trust the system or the chain of custody. Not a single word, on the other hand, about cybersecurity, connectivity, communications problems, in short, about the problems that democratic societies currently face in critical processes such as electoral ones..

In the digital age, exercising the right to vote by mail has become an increasingly popular and frequent alternative, especially if, as occurs on 23-J, the electoral process takes place in the middle of the summer season and in the middle of a seminational macrobridge. All this poses significant challenges in terms of cybersecurity.. In this article, we will explore the relationship between voting by mail and the dangers associated with cyber security..

• Remote voting: a gateway for enemies of democracy. Voting by mail allows citizens to submit their ballots remotely, making them an attractive target for cybercriminals. The electronic transmission of data and the manipulation of ballots can compromise the integrity of the electoral process.

• Phishing and phishing attacks. Voters who participate in elections by mail are exposed to a greater risk of impersonation and phishing attacks. Scammers can send fake emails or messages that appear to come from legitimate election authorities, asking for personal information or voting addresses.
• Handling and alteration of ballots. Mailing presents offline challenges. Ballots can be intercepted and altered during transport, allowing for manipulation of election results. Here the chain of custody of Correos is basic.
• Threats to electoral infrastructure. The cybersecurity of the electoral infrastructure is fundamental to guarantee fair voting and free from interference. Voting by mail increases exposure to cyberattacks, such as tampering with records, unauthorized access to voting systems, and disruption of online services.

• Personal data protection. Elections by mail involve the handling and storage of large amounts of voters' personal data. This raises concerns about privacy protection and the possibility of leaks of sensitive information.

Recently, a family member completed all the procedures to request a vote by mail and used his certificate issued by the AC FNMT. Everything was easy and in a few minutes you already had your Request signed by the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos SA with its proper CSV certificate.. So far everything normal. The following day he received a suspicious email sent by the Administration of serviciodecorreo.es, from an email reply@res.srvdecorreo.es, communicating that Correos had updated the conditions of service. Clearly an anomaly. Clearly a cyber attack. It would not be worrisome if it is not related to the event that occurred the day before, which was neither more nor less than the digital request for a vote by mail.

The protection of the integrity of the electoral process and the security of personal data must be priorities to guarantee confidence in the democratic system. It is essential to implement effective cybersecurity measures, such as strong authentication, data encryption and awareness of safe vote-by-mail practices.. By doing so, we can strengthen cybersecurity in the context of postal elections and preserve the integrity of our democracies..

In our current digital context, where cyberattacks affect all levels and areas of our lives, voting by mail presents significant challenges in terms of cybersecurity..

• The participation of the National Institute of Cybersecurity (Incibe). In the coordination network for the network of electoral processes, the National Institute of Cybersecurity (Incibe) stands as a reference entity. Its role will be crucial to guarantee cybersecurity in the elections, monitoring possible cyberattacks that could change the intention of citizens to vote or prevent their participation in the process.

• Risks for entities and companies involved in the elections. It is essential to ensure the cybersecurity of the main entities and companies that play an active role in the elections. Cyberattacks targeting these organizations can have a considerable impact, disrupting election day and undermining citizen trust.. Even critical service companies, such as couriers, the financial market or electricity, must be monitored, since any attack on third parties could interfere with the holding of the elections.. Throughout this process we should pay special attention to the services that Indra and Telefónica de España have been successfully providing.

• The role of Incibe in the management of electoral incidents. Incibe has a specific service dedicated to the management of incidents related to elections. This demonstrates the importance of proactively addressing any cyber threats or incidents that may arise during the electoral process, ensuring a quick and efficient response to maintain the integrity of mail-in elections.

Every electoral process is susceptible to improvement, but we understand that cybersecurity problems are greater in the fields of telecommunications and critical services, more than in the alteration of the results itself. The illustrious gentleman of the British Order can rest easy with the function of the Post Office and the State throughout the electoral process, no matter how much the former head of the cabinet of President Sánchez is in charge of the organization.

*Pablo Hita is a cybersecurity consultant.

Taking refuge in the undecided is an analytical resource that, in reality, covers up doubts about the certainty of the results and protects the prudence of the predictors. It is more likely that, in 72 hours, the majority of the voters will vote to prevent Pedro Sánchez from being able to govern to give Feijóo the possibility of doing so. We will see if with ease or without it. We will see if alone or in the company of others. It often happens that the ends of the period in history are consummated more with a failure than with a success..

The mental framework that establishes that the general secretary of the PSOE is part of the problem of Spain and not of the solution has been imposed. And that, therefore, it is a priority that the PSOE candidate fail and, as a consequence, that the PP candidate succeed. On Sunday, let no one be fooled, it is much more decided to evict the first from Moncloa than to rent it to the second. That is why the electoral battle is being sleepless, omnivorous, and in which so many are losing what should never be lost: self-esteem and shame.. Ultimately, the reputation.

The worst campaign of democracy

Those of us who have lived through all the electoral campaigns since 1979 —this is already the fifteenth— it is very possible that we do not remember one like the one that is gasping. In addition to anger, it has been confusing and based on the unequal ethical clumsiness of the two candidates. Discounting that of the socialist, who has vindicated his lies, describing them as changes of opinion and, thus, making them worse, the slips of the popular, charitably branded as inaccuracies, have created a breeding ground for various media outlets, strangely committed to the fate of one of the options in dispute rather than with their professional deontology, have become mired in a cross of invective in defense and attack of the contenders as if some of their professionals were part of the sapper garrison of Ferraz or Genoa.

Truth and lies are relative, not absolute categories, but to approach the first and try to avoid the second, rigorous data, respect for citizens and a personal willingness to rectify in case of error or misrepresentation are necessary. omission. Especially when both raise in the field of probity the key argument for the claim of the citizens' vote. If the campaign of the PSOE and its candidate has been terrible, given its indefensible management, that of the PP and its candidate has been bad, fighting with arbitrary creativity of reality (increase in pensions and judicial archive of the Pegasus case) the rectifications of the opponent.

It is true that the ground has been muddied by a government management bridled by the worst traveling companions for the stability of the State and its institutions, but, for this very reason, the opportunity of the PP to fly high has been wasted due to excessive anxiety before the obvious collapse of the left. Furthermore, the pull of the extremes —Vox and Sumar— has been so conditioning of the centrality of the speeches that the ballot of hundreds of thousands of voters, perhaps millions, will opt for the lesser evil instead of for a project suggestive and promising for the coming years.

Release Sánchez de Sánchez

However, for the President of the Government himself, his failure would be repairing (Sánchez frees himself from Sánchez), because in the event that he could attempt an investiture trying to repeat the majority of the previous legislature – he has no other alternative -, the price that would be required by his potential allies would be disastrous for the nation, because it would lead to the precariousness of the territorial unity of Spain, which is the essential constitutional foundation, and would alter political stability and legal security. The cost of their eventual support was announced jointly by Junqueras, Otegi and Rufián last Monday in Barcelona.

It is very possible that, even for Sánchez, the counterpart was so leonine that it made it rejectable, but seen what has been seen (dialogue table, pardons, decriminalization of sedition, relationship with radical Abertzalism), no one would put their hand in the fire for the integrity of the still head of the Government in the face of the temptation to continue in power. He would falter and, therefore, what 23-J is about is to separate him from any promiscuous temptation with the separatists and the populist left.

Yolanda and Santiago, the radical anachronism

For the rest, failure is also liberating for populism to the left of the PSOE. Yolanda Díaz —who in the last stages of the campaign has already taken off her mask and has resorted to the least stylish tools against Feijóo and the PP, she who claims to represent false progressive glamor— has set up an artifact that is so precarious, so artificial and inconsistent that would collapse at the first change if it were one of the wickers of the basket of a new coalition.

The Galician already knows, and her tension proves it, that, with 15 ingredients, and also territorial and identity, Sumar's cohesion will last as long as a piece of candy at the door of a school. A failure, if it were not a debacle, would keep her in the politics of aesthetics that she likes, which consists of lurking in the face and in that constant smile, which is a grimace, to soften her radicalism.. Thus, it adjusts to the protocol dictated by the communist manual of the third decade of the 21st century to make some sense in contemporary times when ideological nutrition comes from the anachronistic Manifesto of its referent: Karl Marx..

The Vox program, at the other end of the spectrum, is a compendium of dogmatisms, in addition to being legally and politically unfeasible, installed on the margins of Spanish reality. They connect, yes, with the most fundamentalist currents of the European radical right, but ours is a country that has distinguished itself for going with a different step compared to that set by the trends of the continent. Our recent history explains it.

Abascal's party is reactive to the stimuli of the deranged politics of the Sánchez government and the irritating prominence of the Catalan republicans and the nationalist pro-nationals of Bildu. Collecting discomfort and using it as a battering ram is a strategy as obvious as it is surely transitory.. If your contest is necessary to form an alternative government to the current one, the Popular Party has to sacramentally establish its red lines and verify the validity of its non-negotiable principles.

The separatists: better to go as victims

What the secessionists and Basque and Catalan nationalists fear the most is that a president of the Government grants them what they ask for. Because then they would have to comply with their maximum program and what would happen to them in Catalonia and the Basque Country would happen to their counterparts in Quebec or Scotland: that, at the moment of truth, separatism is divisive for their own societies, that their hegemony is maintained in the resistance and in the victimization claim and that outside the ecosystem of the emotional epic, they fail. Every time they have tried, they have put the State in trouble, but, in the end, the system has broken all attempts. Here in the UK and Canada. Thrown guys like Puigdemont appear in the story of hundred in wind.

ERC, Bildu and the PNV are perfectly aware that their very existence depends on practicing the policies they know: against, because if they are propositive they have no future. For the Basque-Catalan quartet (add Junts), the nationalist “fervor” that Aitor Esteban has announced before a right-wing government —a kind of blackmailing warning— is more important than an eventual possibility of making their wettest dreams come true. The independence movement in the Basque and Catalan peripheries is an impostor, an alibi to survive and an unfeasible nonsense. and they know it.

The right, to make the adjustment

In the collective instinct, and as economic curves come, as warned by the wise Manuel Pizarro in Punto Ciego, the podcast published last Monday, which already succeeded in warning us of the 2008 crisis in the face of a denialist Solbes and an obtuse Zapatero, the voters have always behaved in the same way: entrusting the adjustment to the right. Peoples, like individuals, have a collective soul and community instincts and, among them, survival, both with respect to principles (national unity, parliamentary monarchy) and material needs..

The European Union will return to its own rights: the fiscal rules. In other words, deficit adjustment, public debt reduction and strict compliance with the conditions for receiving the rest of the extraordinary funds to overcome the ravages of the pandemic. These objectives, which Spain blatantly fails to meet, are going to be demands on a possible PP government to which voters historically attribute a kind of resilience in the face of crises that the left lacks. And it is that the replacement in power is prescribed for almost unconscious reasons, but that act on the electorate as the law of gravity. Feijóo will have to manage the shortage after Sánchez's waste, some of them as unreasonable as poorly executed. In short, let us draw a thick veil (for the moment) on the role of the President of the Government as host of the EU-Celac summit in Brussels. It was assured that the campaign would not affect, for bad, the Spanish presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Union. That promise hasn't been fulfilled either..

The shoemaker mistake

Zapatero's irruption in the Sánchez campaign was the worst symptom for the PSOE. Socialism has never had —Sánchez belongs to another lineage of politicians— a less solvent, more banal and largely discredited leader than the one from Leon. The reason for his presence at the rallies is explained: he wants to vindicate his sound failure by leaving Moncloa through the back door (that humiliating May 2010, that reform of article 135 of the Constitution by order of the European Union that Rajoy provided him in August 2011) and maintain a certain relevance profile: talk about it, even if it is bad.

Sometimes, in order to survive, you have to wander as a spokesperson for someone else's cause, with delirious interventions (what a stupefying digression of yours at a rally in the Basque Country, alluding in an unconnected way to the universe and infinity!) and, on occasions, making good the theory of the useful fool, an expression of political significance coined by Leninism. The Alliance of Civilizations, the Puebla Group, the international lobby (Morocco?), collaborators of yesteryear (in the media and in consulting-lobbying) who now provide services directly or indirectly to the presidency of the Government, explain the reasons for the overexposure of ZP in this campaign that is going to be, surely, his worst political finishing touch, because he is in tandem with Sánchez in such a way that, in the end, the polls can collect two trajectories for the price of one. And the worst Adamism formulated by this ignorant ex-president will not be forgotten: that he and his government put an end to ETA. It takes a staunchly sectarian to maintain such a claim.

Vote by mail and polling stations

There is a broad consensus that the failure of Sánchez, a plausible hypothesis, although always dependent on Sunday's count, would be especially liberating for him and his entourage of supporters.. Deafening, inquisitorial, imposing, moralistic, canceling and politically correct progressivism has had its time and the future of societies behaves like the sections of a secular and endless book: by chapters. The one represented by Sánchez (the times in political science and constitutionalism always hang on the hanger of a name and surnames, here and in Sebastopol) submits to the popular verdict in a torrid and vacation month of July in which the Secretary General of the PSOE has despotically stressed the State and society.

And to the Post Office, which, despite its tremendous efforts, has not been able to handle a hasty and, in the end, materially impossible parcel. The responsibility lies with the president, not with the Post Office, but with the Government. It is difficult to accumulate as many errors as Sánchez has done greedily since last April 3, when the municipal and regional elections were called by royal decree signed by the King.

We must be cautious, however, because the heralds of tremendousism threaten the possibility of atomic bombs with scandalous ammunition that, despite anti-nuclear denials, could change the course of events.. It is improbable, but not improbable, in attention to the Biblical lesson of Samson: to die killing. Meanwhile, most wait, almost with anguish, for this embarrassing spectacle to end..

The distribution of powers of the new Council of the Valencian Generalitat places the Popular Party at an astral distance from Vox in terms of the political and budgetary weight that the two formations will have in the daily management of the regional Executive. It is no longer just that the popular baron has created a second vice presidency with a much greater budget and political weight than that of Vox, which will be occupied by Susana Camarero. For the moment, the ultra-conservatives have barely managed to expand the initial powers that they agreed to in the negotiation with the delegation led by the provincial president, Ignacio Gil Lázaro, the current head of the list for Valencia in Congress, Carlos Flores, and the former bullfighter Vicente Barrera, who left the meeting as First Vice President and Minister of Culture.

Only Barrera has gained space in landing the specifics of the competitions, according to the decree for the distribution of areas that was published yesterday by the Official Gazette of the Valencian Generalitat and bears the signature of Mazón. The First Vice-Presidency, which will be based in the Palacio dels Català de Valeriola, will manage the areas of culture, cultural promotion, cultural heritage, which in principle was going to remain in Education, and sports.

Vox's monopoly in the Generalitat over culture is probably the issue that could end up generating the most headaches and political fires in the new Consell if the ultra-conservatives decide to clash with some of the Valencian cultural sectors, mostly of progressive sensibilities. and make big changes. There is concern in certain creative fields, with groups and professional associations in dance, audiovisual, performing arts or theater, which have even sent letters to the new regional president showing their concern for the future of the creative industries in Valencia.. There have been cases of censorship of stage projects in Castilla y León.

An important key to how Vox approaches its new cultural attribution will be the profile of the regional secretaries and general directors. Barrera pointed out this Wednesday that his party is looking for “professionals close to our sensibilities”, in what seems like an acknowledgment that it is difficult for him to find cadres. One of the names that sounds is that of Inmaculada Gil Lázaro, sister of Ignacio Gil Lázaro, provincial president of Vox in Valencia. Inmaculada was already director general of Teatres and a senior position in the PP stage. He is a person who knows the Autonomous Administration and the Valencian cultural ecosystem, which would send a signal of a low level of confrontation and a soft landing..

The other two ministries in the hands of Vox, Agriculture and Justice, have been significantly mutilated with respect to the powers they had up to now. The day before yesterday, Carlos Flores publicly demanded that the areas of responsibility be maintained in their “integrity”. This Wednesday, Barrera insisted that “we are one government”, and admitted that there has been an internal discussion in the Coalition Council on the powers “of each of the groups”, although “without any fight, peacefully” , added. A discussion outside the focus of public discrepancy, but which, given the president's decree, has been more favorable to the interests of the PP than to those of Vox.

According to the same Mazón decree, the environment, hunting, water resources and animal welfare, which until now were under the umbrella of the former Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition Isaura Navarro (Compromís), have come to swell the responsibilities of the new Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructures and Territory, the popular Salomé Pradas, who will also lead urban planning and structuring of the territory, public works, and transport, ports and airports. The PP thus manages to move away the policies of promotion and protection of the environment, climate change and promotion of renewables from the hands of the ultra-conservatives, deniers of the greenhouse effect and critics of environmental protectionism. It will be necessary to see, in any case, despite the distribution of areas, how Vox influences decision-making, and if despite not having direct management they are capable of guiding the policy of the Government of Mazón towards their postulates.

The voxist José Luis Aguirre will remain in the Ministry of Agriculture only with the part of the relationship with farmers, ranchers and fishermen, in addition to powers in food, common agricultural policy (PAC) and irrigation. Vox has not managed to retain the hunting area either, a universe in which it has found a vein of voters and that the Popular Party has preferred to have under its orbit.

Also the new Minister of Justice, Elisa Núñez, inherits a department with fewer powers than Gabriela Bravo had with the socialist Ximo Puig. Mazón has broken off the Public Function to take it to Economy and Finance, the department of the former spokesperson for Ciudadanos Ruth Merino, now also a spokesperson for the Council.

The responsibility for emergency management and the prevention and extinction of fires has remained in Justice, which during a stage was attached to the Presidency in Puig's first term. Until now, the general director of the Valencian Emergency Agency was the socialist José María Ángel, who has had to experience very complex situations in the last eight years, from devastating fires in the Valencian forests to storms that have caused much damage in cities coastal or aspects of the covid pandemic itself. Vox will have to appoint a new director and make decisions about the technical staff in a highly hierarchical area and linked to the security forces. The popular ones trust that at the head of the general sub-directorate the new head of the department, who was already an advisor to the PP on immigration matters at the end of the first decade of the century (specifically, Rafael Blasco, convicted in the Cooperation case), will maintain Jorge Suárez, considered one of the leading experts in emergency coordination in Spain.