Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Friday March 7 2008
By h.b. - Mar 7, 2008 - 9:52 AM
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El Mundo leads with the headline that the General Council for Judicial Power, the body which oversees the judiciary, is to investigate Judge Bermúdez, who oversaw the Madrid train bombings case, with other judges, for attacking the Partido Popular. The President of the CGPJ, Francisco Hermando, called the chief of the inspection service from Brazil to ask him to start investigations against Bermúdez and 130 other magistrates who have all signed a manifesto critical of the Partido Popular.
The headline in the feature does not mention the reason for the manifesto – it was against the PP proposal to reduce the penal age in Spain down to as low as 12 in some circumstances.
El Mundo shows a photo of Mariano Rajoy hugging two young girls. Both are wearing tshirts declaring ‘ I am Rajoy’s girl’. Rajoy told us that the girl in his head is called ‘Victoria Esperanza’. The paper quotes the PP leader ‘You can win with nearly everyone against you’.
El País leads with the declarations from the Socialist candidate, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. ‘My objective is to govern with the support of my party’. The paper also highlights Zapatero’s latest declarations on immigration. He said on TVE last night that there are 250,000 irregular immigrants in Spain. ‘We will repatriate those we can’, he said. ‘We will not regularise them.’
Oddly perhaps, El País also shows a photo of Mariano Rajoy hugging his ‘niñas’.
ABC has a photo of the criminal known as ‘El Solitario’. The paper says that the famous bank robber is neither psychotic nor suffering from schizophrenia. The paper says it has seen the psychiatric report on the criminal who was yesterday processed for the murder of two civil guards.
Following the criticism of Spain from the European Commission, the President of the E.ON company, Wulf Bernotat, is reported in El Mundo today as saying that ‘To do business in Spain you have to have political support’.
El País notes that the Spanish government has lost the battle, but still says that it has not lost the war.
El Mundo notes that the Madrid regional government, led by the PP’s Esperanza Aguirre, is to allow people to object to the Citizenship classes. Parents will be able to sign up so their children don’t have to attend.
El País says the move is not legal. It notes the regional education councillor has claimed to have seen ‘an avalanche’ of objections already.
ABC leads with the story, as does Público. They have the headline, ‘Esperanza calls for rebellion’. The paper says that just before the General Election the PP controlled Madrid regional government has encouraged objections to the Citizenship classes.
ABC notes that the families of missing people have asked for the human remains found in Alcalá to be identified. The paper quotes the daughter of one military man shot by the communists – ‘They shot my father for being a Catholic, Monarchist and for reading ABC’
In international stories –
The bombing in Jerusalem is covered in many papers.
El Mundo has a small photo and says that a Palestinian terrorist killed eight and injured another nine in a Jewish school in Jerusalem.
The story gets larger coverage in El País which notes it’s the first attack in Jerusalem for five years, and the most serious in Israel since a suicide attack in January 2007 caused the death of three people in the south of the country.
El País notes that Barack Obama has called on the Clinton family to release details of their assets and income. He says such matters need to be transparent.
Público notes that the man described as the biggest arms trafficker in the world has been arrested in Thailand.
Back in Spain, El Mundo claims today that the Catalan Government will be celebrating World Women’s Day on Saturday in 25 languages, but that Castellano is now among them.
And finally,
El Mundo notes that the TVE mini-series on the killing of the Mayor of Fago has been halted from broadcast on a judge’s order. The judge wants to watch it first, to decide whether broadcast can go ahead.
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