Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Wednesday January 9 2007
By h.b. - Jan 9, 2008 - 9:48 AM
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El Mundo has done well to get a photo of Hillary Clinton on their front page today. Going to bed late the paper manages to have the caption that Clinton has recovered and has beaten Obama in the New Hampshire primary. However below the photo the rest of the caption talks about Nicolas Sarkozy and his press conference in Paris yesterday where he faced 600 journalists, all of whom were only interested in Carla Bruni and when is the marriage date.
Elsewhere the El Mundo front page predicts an Obama victory in New Hampshire.
El País, like all the others and the pollsters gets it wrong, and says the impetus from Obama has mobilised the United States electorate. In fact is seems it was Hillary’s tears which mobilised the female voters in New Hampshire yesterday.
El País leads with the revelation that the second ETA activist arrested on Sunday also suffered multiple injuries. It quotes a source as saying that the injuries are compatible with a violent arrest.
ABC prefers to note that the detained men hid more than 100 kilos of explosives ready to attack. The paper also notes that on the 14th the King will receive a group of terrorism victims, but Zapatero will not be present at their congress.
Back with Sarkozy, El País notes the French President has said that ‘We don’t work enough, and other countries do’. The paper notes his press conference lasted for two hours.
Rajoy has announced that he will cut Company Tax by 5% if he wins the elections – the promise leads El Mundo today which describes it as the largest tax reduction carried out on the tax. Rajoy contends that it will result in a loss of income of 5 billion €, but the positive income on the economy will compensate for this.
ABC leads with the headline Government and PSOE increase their attacks and now charge against the Pope. The paper quotes José Blanco from the PSOE who has called on the pontiff to explain if by family be means the woman at home tied to the sink. The paper also quotes Felipe González who has said the people are fed up with being ‘saved’ by the Bishops.
El País has an aerial photo of housing development which has eaten into a mountain in Cantabria. The development of 500 houses near the coast is now to be demolished on the order of the courts, but the paper notes the regional government has not enforced that order, as yet.
More electioneering with El Mundo saying that a top ranking member of the Junta de Extremadura (Socialist) has said the Government deserved to lose the election because of their approval of the digital cannon.
Público takes a look at the election day, two months away with more of their poll data. It highlights four battlegrounds – Andalucía, Cataluña, Valencia and Madrid.
La Razón says most in the PP think that the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, will be included in the PP candidate lists for the election.
El País says that Desiré and Laura could not have their abortions yesterday, reflecting a week long stoppage in private clinics across the country. The strike comes in protest at how they are criticised following the case of the illegal abortions carried out in two clinics in Barcelona.
El Mundo notes that one in four immigrants who are collecting unemployment benefit in Spain is from Morocco.
El Mundo says that Judge del Olmo authorised searches of ETA activists homes before the forensic scientists had examined the arrested men. El Mundo always keen to pour doubt on the work of Judge del Olmo.
El Mundo says El Chino, one of the main suspects in the Madrid train bombing case contracted another man called Gascón after the bombing, to manage a ‘puticlub’ in Málaga. The paper said the two men decided to use Caribbean girls as they are ‘submissive and friendly’ while the Moroccan women are ‘more problematic’.
El Mundo says that the PP has shown that there are no public schools using Castellano in Cataluña. The paper says the party has sent out a video which shows a conversation between a Generalitat civil servant and a mother who is told that her child can study in English but not in Spanish.
And finally,
Publico has an article were it names four keys to live 14 years longer. One of them – the humble apple.
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