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Spain Papers Review - Monday March 3 2008
By h.b. - Mar 3, 2008 - 9:43 AM
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El Mundo leads with the latest poll carried out for the paper carried out by Sigma Dos. The paper puts an increasing Socialist lead of 4.1% down to the increased expected participation – up at 77%. El Mundo has a picture of Mariano Rajoy sitting next to José María Aznar. Interestingly Angel Acebes also present at the rally in León has been kept out of the picture. Aznar was the surprise guest at the rally yesterday, which was significant in as much as it took place in Zapatero’s home city. The paper says Aznar called on the left wing to vote for the PP.
The El Mundo poll shows the Socialists making gains in Aragón, Cataluña, Murcia and perhaps the Basque Country and Castilla-La Mancha. The PP will advance in Andalucia, Valencia and perhaps Madrid.
El País also has a photo of Rajoy and Aznar together and says that Rajoy has brought back the hardest Aznar following a break in the advance in the polls. The paper considers that with a week to go to the poll, the PSOE and the PP are polarising their speeches. Left is left and right is right.
ABC goes with its own poll, carried out by DYM and prefers to search the detail for its headline, which is ‘Seven out of ten Socialist voters think the Government has been weak on crime’
The paper also has Aznar speaking at the rally with Rajoy.
Even Público has Aznar for their front page photo, but the headline is Rajoy can’t close the gap. Their latest poll from Publiscopio gives the PSOE 43.9% and the PP 39.5%. Publico says Rajoy lined up the old guard of the party yesterday, ahead of today’s TV debate which the paper describes as ‘decisive’.
In international stories, El Mundo reports that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela has announced the closure of his embassy in Bogota, and the sending of ten battalions to the border with Colombia. Chávez has called ÁLvaro Uribe ‘a criminal, a liar, a member of the mafia and a paramilitary who runs a narcogovernment’.
EL País also gives the story prominence and says it comes after the number two of the FARC guerrillas in Colombia, Raúl Reyes, was killed by the army on Saturday on the border with Ecuador. The Colombian Government insists that it acted in ‘legitimate defence’ and did not violate the sovereignty of Ecuador.
El País headlines ‘a massacre of children’ in the farms of Gaza. It has a report from the region on the increased violence seen over the weekend.
El Mundo reports that Putin’s favourite, Dimitri Medvedev, has had a big win in the Russian elections, while the opposition has spoken of fraud.
El País goes as far as to say it was a vote ‘without merit’.
Back in Spain,
El Mundo notes the arrest of two of the ETA most wanted in Vizcaya. The two were included on a new list of wanted members published just a week ago.
ABC says that Zapatero has been putting pressure on the Bishops ahead of their choosing of a new leader. The Prime Minister has warned that if he wins the election he will ‘dot the I’s regarding certain church matters.
El Mundo reports that 70% of the 11,000 people sent to prison in Spain during this legislature are foreigners. The paper notes the percentage of foreign prisoners in Spanish jails has risen from 17% to 34%.
And finally,
El País reports that the 60% of women in Spain have claimed that maternity has proved an obstacle to their career. The paper has a survey and says that 16% of women give up on their careers when they become mothers.
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