José Antonio González died last summer after a heat stroke. At the age of 60, he collapsed in the street working at more than 40 degrees. The case of this street sweeper in Madrid led to a whole cascade of criticism of the conditions of the companies, in situations of extreme heat, they exposed their workers. Days later, another employee was admitted to the hospital in serious condition, and the most demanding jobs in the afternoon shift were abolished.. Now that the high temperatures return to the capital – it is the forecast of the AEMET since Thursday – the companies and unions linked to this work launch a protocol to avoid repeating mistakes. It was approved on June 9, and has been in force since then. As a limit, it will last until September 15.

“I think what happened changed our minds a lot,” admits Ester, one of the street sweepers affected by this protocol.. The disaster in the last hot season showed that something was not working: “We had gotten used to working hours that are increasingly impossible today”. He admits that it is his case, and he believes that also that of other colleagues. Doing otherwise was not regulated either. Although since then, there has been progress.

The heat and conciliation

Already in July 2022, a prior agreement was reached so that the Madrid street sweepers would not work in the afternoons when it was more than 39 degrees, the maximum level of danger. In the yellow alerts, clearing was suppressed at these same hours, and the uniforms were renewed for fresher ones. The current plan included some of these measures, improvised in view of what happened. He also tried to improve the main problem detected then. “It was almost impossible to reconcile,” summarizes this worker. Both the union representatives and the contractors agreed on this same point in the meetings to reorganize the service..

Last summer they redirected the staff on the fly based on what the state meteorology agency announced hours before. The margin of time to organize was always very short.. Now, from 34 degrees, all services are suspended between two and four in the afternoon. Those of sweeping and maintenance, more intense, until five. During that time, it will be possible to work from vehicles with air conditioning, but for the rest these three defined scenarios have been established. “Last year we had a somewhat ambiguous protocol,” says one of the advisers of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) in negotiations with businessmen, Pedro Javier Morán.

That a worker died and the increasingly intense heat seriously affected the operators led them to react “quickly and running”. With everything more consolidated and a written agreement, from the union they say they are satisfied with the current roadmap. On the other hand, the private companies that the City Council hires to clean the streets admit that there was no greater forecast for these hours of extreme heat.. But they believe that with the changes they will be able to face the summer with “more security”. This is the balance made by the spokesperson for ASELIP, the association that brings them together, Mariano Sancho, who also pays attention to the forecasts for maximum temperatures.

The exception: big events

In the event of a red alert, the protocol does not specify lines of action. The only guideline is that, in addition to all of the above, “more restrictive preventive measures” may be applied.. A very wide range that at least will suspend almost all the service in the afternoons, clarifies ASELIP, with the sole exception of large scheduled events. After the death of the worker last summer, a plenary session of Cibeles approved extending the measures adopted by the cleaning service to other employees who carry out work in full sun.

In it were read some words that the son of José Antonio González, the worker, wrote when his father died. “You will go down in history for having improved the conditions of your colleagues,” he predicted then. so it has been. And this summer it will be verified if, at least for the moment, it has been enough. It was also accepted to evaluate whether the contractor complied with occupational risk prevention. “All companies have their rules, and those rules are met,” they settle from the Consistory, which clarifies that they only “urged” the companies to review and take the pertinent measures, without specifying whether the City Council did any follow-up. Similarly, they recall that this is an outsourced service and argued that, in these cases, “it is up” to the contractors to review their plans.

Yet the climate emergency is more palpable by the day. So, at the gates of July, the intention this time is to be more forewarned. Just a month ago, the central government also endorsed, in an extraordinary Council of Ministers, modifying the labor prevention regulations and including new measures –among them, the prohibition of working outdoors during hotter hours– that are mandatory for the companies. “We are going to adapt the weather conditions to the jobs,” promised the head of Labor and current leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, when the Executive's intention advanced days before from Alcorcón.

A year ago, Díaz experienced a crossroads of reproaches with the mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida, precisely as a result of heat strokes between workers from the Madrid cleaning service. But, beyond the debate generated inside and outside the capital by the situation of the street sweepers, 2022 in Spain broke other standards. It was the warmest year since there are records not only in the country, but in all of Europe. In summer came the straw that broke the camel's back, with water restrictions in many areas of Galicia, Extremadura, Castilla y León, Andalusia and Catalonia and more than 300,000 hectares devastated by fire.

Nobody wants a similar scenario to be repeated.. In April, the Community of Madrid approved a comprehensive plan for when the days of suffocation arrived. Refrigeration measures were proposed in educational centers and certain time changes, along with other protocols for hospitals or public transport. Whether due to increasingly intense droughts, large fires or heat waves, the focus of the administrations also turns towards this problem.

Two people have died late this afternoon in a shooting in Alella, a town in the Catalan region of Maresme (Barcelona), before which the Mossos d'Esquadra have deployed a large police device because the perpetrators had fled the place .

As TV3 has advanced, the regional police have received notice of the shooting after 7:00 p.m. and the Mossos d'Esquadra have confirmed to EFE that two deaths have been recorded.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have opened an investigation to clarify the facts and have deployed a police device in the area to try to arrest the perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting.

Instead of campaign events, for 23-J the parties are offering skits. We see the same thing with the Prime Minister telling jokes while interviewing himself from a Ferraz set as with the PP spokesman, Borja Sémper, walking barefoot along an artificial beach claiming Verano azul. As ridiculous as they may seem, which they are, they are still more revealing than they seem.

The PP has been criticized a lot for holding its campaign presentation act on a Madrid beach. The memes made themselves. Come on, there will be no beaches in Spain, critics say, enough for a San Sebastian like Sémper to have to pose between blue umbrellas before a sea of plasma on take away sand and in a Madrid sports center.

Perhaps the critics have not understood the genius of the metaphor. Isn't Feijóo being accused of misrule in Genoa? Isn't it being questioned internally and externally that in each region the popular barons make opposing decisions in the pacts with Vox? Well, what better way to get noticed from Madrid and recover some centralism than with an artificial beach. Nothing more Madrid than the lack of sea.

In reality, making visible that something is done from Madrid is not easy at all. The capital is so ubiquitous that it often becomes invisible to politicians, like water to fish. For the parties it is very difficult to make notice that something is done from where almost everything happens. There are so many press conferences in the capital, so many politicians looking for a house and so many groups guessing ministers that they no longer know what to invent. Let's see how you make yourself heard when there are more microphones than ears. So in full confrontation with Vox for power in Extremadura, in the midst of all the contradictions, Genoa arrives with a coup d'état. Madrid has spoken. It does not matter what he said, but it has been fixed from Madrid. How can it not be from Madrid if the beach is artificial. If Sémper had launched the slogan “tranquility blue, confidence blue, security blue” from an Andalusian beach, it would have attracted less attention. And it is better to discard the Alicante beaches now that Genoa wants to distance itself from Valencia.

When Feijóo has tried to explain the internal mess as a result of the express agreement with Vox in Valencia and the risk of electoral repetition in Extremadura, blaming the numbers, while María Guardiola alleges that the important thing is the principles, the contradictions were evident. So maybe it makes more sense than it seems to have staged a skit. Thus, the versions that Sémper has tried to clarify are not the same, because all that can be talked about is the absurdity of a Madrid beach..

It is also more revealing than what President Sánchez seems to have, in his free time between visits to Greater Wyoming and the Hormiguero, meeting with his ministers in Ferraz. After having blamed the media for his defeat in the previous elections, he has chosen to amend himself with media overexposure.. Could it be that he has suddenly understood what the polls have been saying for a long time: Sánchez does not like him. And to remedy it in a hurry, he talks about his underwear in El Intermedio, which he tries to make fun of nothing less than an interview with Luis Planas..

“For Feijóo, the debates are like gyms in January, you sign up, but you never go,” said Sánchez this week at one of these pre-campaign events in Ferraz with the Minister of Agriculture. That the phrase has overshadowed any discussion on the agrarian policy of that act will not be a surprise for the campaign team because the objective of that phrase cannot be other than to become the headline of the day. So that? It is not only about highlighting the leader of the PP for his resistance to debate. To insist on this it is not necessary to have a comedian writing gags to the president.

The most revealing thing about that moment is the laughter that plays in the background.. Having their ministers and other PSOE officials present in Ferraz applauding on demand during the recording, just as the public does on the sets in exchange for a sandwich. The scene says a lot about what this campaign is serving internally, because basically what we are seeing is a bunch of subordinates laughing at a boss's bad jokes. The most important message is those obedient laughs. After all, the electoral advance was decided at a time when the president and general secretary of the PSOE feared an internal rebellion after the defeat of 28-M. The more ridiculous everything seems, the more serious is what it hides.

I have an intuition. I believe that, in the face of electoral pacts, what most penalizes the voter is not the pact itself, but the lack of conviction.

I explain. We all have a preference over the pacts reached by the parties. But how can we not have it? If we have it even between different candidates of the same party…

We know that some voters feel more comfortable with one pact and others with another. We also know that the adversary will use the pact to attribute the worst of one to the other.. However, none of this has a direct electoral consequence..

What really remains —in votes— is that the citizen detects a lack of conviction in the agreement (or disagreement). One can come to admit one or another position if he understands the reasons of the one who leads to take it. You can even trust him by disagreeing with what he does. But to get to the lesser evil, you have to trust the boss. And trust is earned through conviction, letting people know what you really think, declaring when there is a red line and sticking to it. Explaining when there is a transfer and the reason for it.

Let's treat citizens like adults. Because the citizens know that in the current political panorama it is necessary to agree. In fact, it is the result of his own decision. From the will of society. Nobody attributes the responsibility of having to make a pact to the one who has to form a government. It is logical that a candidate is the one who would have wanted an absolute majority the most, but it does not exist and an agreement must be made. Even all citizens understand that in a pact there is a transfer. What they don't understand is being told that something is going to happen and it doesn't happen, or that it isn't going to happen and it happens..

In order to gain someone's trust, even when the situation is uncomfortable, the only condition is to know what we stand for.

For this reason, Guardiola receives more support than Mazón. But not because one has agreed with Vox and the other refuses. But because one has given the impression of having done it out of necessity and the other —it seems— speaks from the beginning.

And if we look at it like this… we will also understand the punishment of Sánchez. Because what Sánchez is really accused of is not that he agreed with United We Can. What is blamed is that one day he could not sleep and another day he was hugging. That he did not care about Rivera or Iglesias. And that is what is reprehensible and what is censored. It is what causes anxiety in people's minds. It is the same feeling as walking into a store and seeing that the prices are not on the products. One can assume that something is expensive or cheap. You can even justify paying a lot for something that isn't worth it—we do it every day in airports. What you cannot feel is that this price is variable according to other circumstances that you do not control. Come on, they are tangando to one.

So now that everyone is compact, my approach would be to tell our leaders to stay calm. That we all understand what is happening. We just need to hear whoever is in charge understands it too, and if he gives in, as long as he knows what and why, he'll be fine. As if in our life we were not constantly giving in to reach agreements..

Politicians, be calm. The responsibility for there not being absolute majorities belongs to the citizens. It is in their hands that the fault of failing to manage them lies with the politicians.

To complement the work that the Michelin Guide did and continues to do for many years, the company William Reed Business Media decided to create a new classification of restaurants that was first published in the British magazine Restaurant in 2002.. This is how The World's 50 Best Restaurants (or 50 Best) was born.

Since its inception, Spain's history in the ranking has been extraordinary: elBulli, by Ferran Adrià, was number one for five years, and El Celler de Can Roca, by the brothers Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca, another two years. Both are now on the wall of the Best of the Best, a privileged place along with the other seven who have been number one in the world and who can no longer be re-elected.

In addition, other Spanish restaurants have positioned themselves among the top positions and have occupied a not inconsiderable percentage of the total number of winners.. But today I want to talk about the success of Latin America as a whole (which includes, of course, Spain).

The selection system of the 50 best restaurants in the world

The 50 Best voting system divides the world into 27 regions, and each of them consists of a jury, headed by a president who is in charge of coordinating the voting.

The juries are made up of different gastronomy experts and professionals, chefs, restaurateurs, journalists, gastronomic critics…. In total, more than 1,000 international voters, each of whom can cast up to 10 votes (with a maximum of 6 in the region of origin) and provided they have visited the restaurants in the last 18 months.

One of the great achievements of this list is that it has accommodated establishments of very diverse styles (including, for example, traditional grills), highlighting that, in almost all countries, there can be very high-level restaurants and chefs..

19 Ibero-American restaurants in 50 Best 2023

A few days ago, The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2023 edition was presented at the Palacio de las Artes in Valencia, with extraordinary results for Latin America. The territory stands out with 19 restaurants among the 50 winners. Specifically, there are: 6 Spaniards, 4 Peruvians, 3 Mexicans, 2 Colombians, 1 Portuguese, 1 Brazilian, 1 Argentine and 1 Chilean.

Data that contrasts with the results of fourteen years ago, when the Ibero-American Academy of Gastronomy was founded. In 2009, only 6 Spaniards and 1 Brazilian appeared on the list (the DOM restaurant, by Alex Atala).

The great news of this edition is that, for the first time, a restaurant from South America occupies the first place. It is the Peruvian Central, where Virgilio Martínez and Pía León have managed to create an extraordinarily attractive place in every way, including the quality of the raw material..

In addition to Central, Peru places three more establishments on the list: Maido (ranked 6), Kjolle (ranked 28) and Mayta (ranked 47)..

Spain remains with six very well positioned restaurants: Disfrutar (at number 2), the Madrid restaurant Diverxo (3), Asador Etxebarri (4), Quique Dacosta (20), Elkano (22) and Mugaritz (31)..

Mexico adds three: Quintonil (9), Pujol (13) and Rosetta (49). And Colombia another two, in Bogotá: El Chato (33) and Leo (43).

Portugal places a restaurant at number 25, Belcanto, by chef José Avilez, who is undoubtedly one of the best in the world.

In Chile there is Boragó (position 29); in Brazil, A Casa do Porco (12), which somehow comes to replace DOM; and, in Argentina, Don Julio (19).

In addition, other prizes were awarded that have also fallen to Ibero-American personalities: the Icon Award 2023 has been for the Spanish Andoni Luis Aduriz (from Mugaritz, in Guipúzcoa); The World's Best Female Chef 2023 goes to Elena Reygadas (from Rosetta, in Mexico City); The World's Best Pastry Chef 2023 goes to Pía Salazar (from Nuema, Quito); and The World's Best Sommelier goes to Miguel Ángel Millán (from DiverXO, Madrid).

Evolution of Ibero-American gastronomy

When the Ibero-American Academy of Gastronomy (AIBG) was established in the Maestranza in Seville, we were convinced of the importance of joining efforts to publicize one of the best gastronomic offers in the world..

Ibero-America has become a singular and unique space, with a great raw material, the result of the food that we brought from America and of those that we. But, in addition, over time, it has been configured as a territory with high-level restaurants and with a cuisine that already equals, to a certain extent, that of Europe and Asia..

Latin America in Madrid

And something that I have wanted to reflect in my latest articles (Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Argentina… in Madrid), is that in the capital of Spain you can find samples of all this great offer, with a multitude of restaurants, shops and gastronomic boutiques that bring to the capital the cuisine and products of many Latin American countries.

And it is that Madrid is the perfect setting, not only to represent the gastronomy of Latin America, but to promote its excellence and its evolution in the coming years..

The Ministry of Health and the communities have agreed to end the mandatory use of masks in sanitary spaces. Public transport was the last closed place where the restriction imposed during the pandemic was lifted. Hospitals, health centers and pharmacies were the only areas where it was necessary to put on the mask to enter.

The lifting of this restriction was a measure that some autonomous communities had been asking for for a long time. As announced by the Minister of Health, José Miñones, after the meeting with the councilors at the Interterritorial Health Council, it will no longer be mandatory to wear masks in these places. “The experts transfer the end of the health crisis and replace the norm that until now forced the use of the mask in certain spaces to move on to the recommended use and good practices”, explained Miñones.

What can be the exceptions?

But there will be cases in which the use of masks may continue to be mandatory.. According to Efe, the agreement contemplates maintaining them in some situations that involve vulnerable patients, such as operating rooms, intensive care units and in which there are immunocompromised patients.. Emergency areas could also be included.

The exceptions for its use or the date have not yet been detailed, since the proposal must be transferred to the Council of Ministers to establish the new standard. In this way, its use will continue to be recommended when there are symptoms of respiratory infection..

🔴 @jose_minones ▶️ The experts move the end of the #COVID19 health crisis and replace the norm that required the use of the #mask in certain spaces to move to a recommended use and good practices

🔊 It will be applied in all spaces and throughout the territory pic.twitter.com/iFp7oe2LP9

– Ministry of Health (@sanidadgob) June 23, 2023

Thus, more than a thousand days have passed since the restriction that remained in force for sanitary spaces. The decision has been made after studying the “expert reports on the epidemiological situation and vaccination against Covid 19” and after a month after the WHO declared the end of the global public health emergency due to the coronavirus.

The Prosecutor's Office requests 16 years in prison for Ángela Dobrowolski, ex-wife of television producer and founder of La Trinca Josep Maria Mainat, whom it accuses of having tried to kill him by injecting him with insulin while he was sleeping, in June 2020. In its qualification brief, the Prosecutor's Office accuses Dobrowolski of a crime of murder and another of discovery and disclosure of secrets and requests that she be sentenced to a fine of 6,000 euros and that she be prohibited from approaching or communicating with him for a period of eight years.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the defendant tried to murder her husband once he expressed his intention to divorce her and learned, after furtively accessing the email, that in that case the financial means he needed to maintain his “high rhythm of life” and was excluded from the will. On the night of June 23, 2020, and after a strong discussion at the family home, adds the Prosecutor's brief, the defendant woke Mainat up while she was sleeping to inject her with a weight-loss medication that she had been using for a long time..

To avoid a new discussion and to continue sleeping, Mainat “allowed him,” according to the letter, which adds that the defendant, who was studying her last year of medicine, then injected her husband with a mixture of insulin “aware of the fatal consequences” of the same and that it was “totally contraindicated” for the diabetes that the victim suffered. With a glucometer, the Prosecutor's Office maintains, she controlled her husband's blood sugar level until ascertaining that it would be “practically impossible” for him to recover given the high level of hypoglycemia that had caused him and that the situation was “irreversible”..

The defendant “did nothing to reverse her condition” until 3:00 in the morning, when she called the emergency medical services to “cover up her behavior,” the public ministry maintains.. Mainat was treated by the emergency services and transferred to a hospital, where he ended up recovering from hypoglycemia without any sequelae..

It was Pol Mainat, son of the producer and the deceased actress Rosa Maria Sardà, who filed the complaint that led to the arrest of Dobrowolski. In addition to this case, Dobrowolski was sentenced to 17 months in prison, a sentence that was suspended, for trying to enter Mainat's home on four occasions and breaking the restraining orders of her ex-husband that the judge imposed on her and she has another case open. for violation of the prohibition to communicate with him.

The puzzle of fifteen parties has been very difficult for Yolanda Díaz to put together, but the development of her electoral program is not far behind. Different forces aligned with the vice president and professionals who participated in the drafting of the first ideas acknowledge that they are going “much more slowly” than they would like, despite the fact that the calendar is pressing. They affirm that “in the next few days” it will be opened to the participation of the parties, although some such as Compromís or the common ones have their own recipes. The bulk of the energies have been concentrated in the negotiations on economic resources and distributions in the lists and Sumar hurried until Monday, the day on which the legal term to present the candidacies expired, to consider some of the names closed..

The program as a whole, they point out, will hardly be ready before the middle or end of next week. Until now, Díaz and the Sumar spokespersons have been shelling out announcements, specific pills about their recipes, mainly in matters of labor, economic and fiscal policies, which, in addition, are the most outlined by the second vice president and Minister of Labor due to her experience in government.

Along these lines is his proposal to reduce the working day by law to 37.5 hours in 2024, and to continue reducing it, progressively, to 32 hours.. That the commons reaffirmed their commitment to the self-determination referendum, on Thursday, was considered by Sumar as a “confusion”, a misinterpretation by the media, and they reiterated that Ada Colau's party had not moved from its 2019 positions. However, the 2021 program of the commons continued to bet on a referendum, and today the line is more diffuse. It goes through respecting an agreement -generally- that arises from the dialogue table, which will not meet again if they revalidate the Government. It was a blow to the formation, in a campaign in which Díaz wants to talk about the tangible, about the politics that affect the day to day.

Sources close to the vice president affirm that the uses of time, the cost of living, feminism and the ecological crisis will be fundamental axes of her campaign for the general elections on 23-J. Although all the concrete measures in these matters are not closed either; The period for contributions from militants closed on June 5, and when they projected their calendar, they counted on having time to deliberate, review, extract or expand their proposals, but today times are different. María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, responsible for the program, coordinates the work to extract the documents and to make the measures “clearer”. Neither Díaz nor the rest of the spokespersons will give wings to the “cultural war” that Podemos has always demanded of them, at least, explicitly, and they will focus on selling the policies already promoted, such as the increases in the SMI or the labor reform, and , above all, those who want to develop.

The leader of Sumar, in addition, has already entered the campaign against the PSOE, with Pedro Sánchez and Nadia Calviño in her target. On Thursday, in Santander, he charged against the PSOE proposal to link the SMI to the average salary by law: on the one hand, he defended the framework of social dialogue and, on the other, he affirmed that the “PSOE candidate has fallen short” with your proposal. On Tuesday, he reproached Sánchez for his criticism of Irene Montero's feminism — “Be careful what we say” — and charged against the first vice president and nemesis of his political space since the start of the legislature. Gone are the times of the electoral ticket with the head of the Executive, who tries to concentrate all the useful vote in his party, remove the political oxygen from the formation. Díaz is the main member of the Government identified with the rise in the SMI, the labor reform or the search for new recipes to make mortgages and the shopping basket cheaper, and she is using it.

Beyond his plan to make the tax on large fortunes permanent, or to increase the corporate tax, Sumar has proposed an emergency bonus of 1,000 euros per household with a variable mortgage, to be paid by the bank, to help families to alleviate the blow from the rise in interest rates. The breakdown of this measure was carried out on Wednesday by Díaz's economic guru, Carlos Martín, number six on the lists for Congress for Madrid and until now the CCOO's economic manager.. Martín made this announcement during an interview in La Sexta, days after he began to launch small details, added to the trickle of transfers for his campaign.

On Tuesday, Díaz proposed that the working day end at 6:00 p.m., in addition to promising the self-employed “the same rights and protection” that other workers already enjoy. On Friday, the vice president extended in an official act on the importance of making the working day more flexible and reducing, using for this a study sponsored by the ministry, the germ of the frustrated law on the use of time and the rationalization of hours, which was not will see this legislature reflected in any regulation.

In recent months, in parallel to his tour of Spain, dozens of experts have contributed to drafting 35 thematic documents that support his “country project”, and which are a starting point for developing the program. Some, such as the one that refers to feminism, in theory one of the axes of the campaign, barely include generic proposals, such as a State pact for care. For this reason, from the vice president's team they recognize that now it is time to secure positions with “the costs of living, mortgages and the economy”, some of the matters that have worked the most, while they close the global document.

For now, Díaz launched the candidacies for 23-J on Wednesday in a rather unusual format; with the heads of the list and the number two in almost all the constituencies present —Alberto Rodríguez, former purple leader, was not there, and the number three of Más Madrid was there—, but without mentioning their names, and without any of them, women in his majority, will take the floor. There were photos, a walk, and a speech of just over five minutes in which Díaz boasted of having the best, united despite their respective political “cards”, without giving details..

The image of unity was the most important thing in the act. Sumar brought together some of the candidates of Más Madrid, common or Podemos, who have contracted a kind of forced marriage after years of division, and after weeks of attacks by the purple. None of Díaz's allies have forgotten the vetoes, exclusions and more or less forced casualties that they have had to assume during 21 days of tough negotiations, since the electoral advance, but now they strive to sell that they are all going out in one. In the center, on both sides of Díaz, Aina Vidal, number one for Barcelona, and Tesh Sidi, number three for Madrid, representing two of their great allies, the commons and Más Madrid.

The signings of Álvarez and Jacinto do not like Podemos

In recent weeks, except to denounce the veto of Irene Montero, Podemos has lowered its public profile as a party to the maximum, to the point of almost erasing itself from the map, leaving Díaz all the prominence. Behind the scenes, yes, the signings of Nacho Álvarez and Alejandra Jacinto as spokespersons for Sumar's Economy and Housing have bothered. In the case of the former, the economic brain of Podemos, his role is limited, for the moment, to the campaign period. And both maintain their positions in the purple party. That has not prevented there being voices expressing their disagreement with the executive on Monday, according to sources from Ione Belarra's party..

The purples will carry out a new act of their own on Saturday, for the right to housing, with the participation of Belarra herself and Jacinto, to mark their own profile. Irene Montero, who this week once again had a public agenda as minister, will not share the stage with them. His future political role has been subordinated to the results of Sumar on 23-J. The tension and anger with Díaz have not disappeared, but this week the former vice president and purple historical leader, Pablo Iglesias, warned that he will not criticize the formation or its leader in the middle of the electoral cycle. That Díaz denied on Tuesday that there was a veto against Montero also angered them, but, for now, they affirm that they are determined to keep their forms.

The Interterritorial Health Council has supported this Friday the definitive withdrawal of the mandatory nature of masks in health centers, hospitals and pharmacies, so their widespread use in these centers ends, but it is recommended when there are symptoms of respiratory infection.

The Minister of Health, José Miñones, has reached an agreement with the sector's advisers in the Interterritorial Health Council, a claim put forward weeks ago by several communities, including Madrid, which since April asked to eliminate the mask inside hospitals, pharmacies and day centers.

In this way, Spain says goodbye to more than 1,140 days of mandatory use of the mask in some area, waiting for the Council of Ministers to approve, foreseeably next week, the royal decree that will include the new regulation, already more flexible in terms of related to health and socio-health environments.

Health and the communities aim to maintain the obligation in critical and vulnerable hospital settings, that is, in areas such as operating rooms, intensive care units and where there are immunocompromised patients. The minister himself announced last week that the idea was to remove the masks in places that are still mandatory — health centers, social health centers and pharmacies — and settled: “We are closer to it being a recommended rather than mandatory use”.

Spain put an end to the mandatory mask on public transport last February, at a time when the covid-19 records, as now, were close to their lowest figures, although it will continue to be advisable in these places for people vulnerable or in the presence of symptoms of respiratory infection.

The reform of the royal decree of April 2022 that regulates the use of face masks was “one more step”, in the words of Miñones's predecessor, Carolina Darias, in the response that Spain was giving to the epidemiological situation throughout the pandemic.. It was thus withdrawn on trains, planes, buses or subways, where they were imperative since May 4, 2020, as well as health establishments such as orthopedics, opticians and audioprosthesis centers, where it remained mandatory in April last year when removed from interiors.

Marta Fernández, from Vox, is from this Friday, June 23, the new president of the Table of the Cortes de Aragón, a position she reaches after the agreement of the ultra-right with the PP. Born in Zaragoza (1966), she has a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza and has spent twenty years as head of Human Resources in the private sector in a company related to the energy sector.. According to his LinkedIn profile, he dedicated his work to the Aragonese company Osca Gas, (dedicated to the installation, maintenance and repair of your gas equipment) from 1999 to 2019..

Just before entering politics, he had neither a house nor a vehicle, as stated in the declaration of assets presented in 2019. Along with this, he only had 15,000 in bank accounts and a salary in the private sector of 26,000 euros per year. Her salary relationship changes substantially as president of the Aragonese Cortes, where she will pocket 85,000 euros a year.

“All of us are here because the Aragonese have decided so. For that reason alone, the opinions of each of their lordships deserve respect.. We represent the different sensitivities of the territory and during the next four years we are going to address the problems that the citizens will pose to us”, he pointed out in his speech to the deputies of the Aragonese parliament at the start of the XI legislature.

His mother, on the PP lists

Recognized denier of vaccines, climate change, against free information from the media and fan of leaders like Trump or Bolsonaro. He denies machismo, gender violence and does not like chips for pets. His name has come to the fore today because, after confirming his appointment, Fernández has proceeded to erase his traces on social networks by deleting his Twitter and Instagram profiles. But, as expected, the digital footprint remains and users have brought up several controversial posts and comments from the regional deputy.

Regarding his family past, the Center for Borjan Studies also rescues some aspects, closely related to the town of Zaragoza, according to the Heraldo de Aragón.. From the center they explain that Marta Fernández's grandfather was “the well-remembered Jesús Martín Martínez who, with the pseudonym 'El Barón de Jausarás', signed numerous articles related to the traditions of our city and, for many years, was a Member of Propaganda of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Peana in Zaragoza”. Thus, the mother of the deputy and now president of the Cortes, María Jesús Martín Albiol, was on the PP lists in the 2011 municipal elections, but did not obtain representation.