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Spain Papers Review - Wednesday April 23 2008
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By h.b. - Apr 23, 2008 - 9:50 AM
Today's Público front page
El Mundo leads with the headline that Esperanza Aguirre, the PP President of the Madrid region, accepts the leadership of Mariano Rajoy, but will also support the idea of primary election being held in the party for the 2012 elections.
The paper says Rajoy phoned her on Monday after she asked him to clear up his statements made in his speech in Elche, and that he had not been thinking of her when he said those who wanted to go to the Liberal Party should leave.
El Mundo also has a quote on the PP leadership battle – ‘If they let us choose a candidate, instead of 700,000 we will be a million and a half’ – The statement comes from the PP President of the Madrid district of Salamanca, Iñigo Henríquez de Luna. He says that the party affiliates deserve that right.
El Mundo notes another leadership challenge in the party – Alberto Fernández will run against Sirera and Nebrera for the leadership of the party in Cataluña.
El País considers that Esperanza Aguirre is using the tactic of suspense to strengthen her position as an alternative, and notes that Party founder Manuel Fraga has called on her to ‘shut up for once and for all’.
El País considers today that new demands from the Partido Popular are making cross-party agreement on a new pact to reform the judiciary unviable. The paper says that the PP is calling on the PSOE to abandon part of their election manifesto.
ABC leads with what it calls a correction of policy from the Government and says that the way is now open for emergency water transfers. A royal decree was published yesterday which the paper makes it clear that the transfer of water from the Ebro to Barcelona could be extended to other regions ‘where there are other similar emergency situations’.
El País leads today on the delays in the judiciary and in cases of domestic violence in particular. It says that in Madrid there are 7,000 macho violence cases pending. The paper talks to Judge Palop, who says it’s a tinderbox…. Other cases like the Mari Luz Cortés case could come to light he says, and that with each killing he gets a knot in his stomach and cannot sleep. The paper shows an office piled high with papers.
El Mundo notes that those arrested for ‘kale borroka’ street violence in the Basque country had reports on the local members of the PSE Socialist Party.
Pedro Solbes has downgraded the government’s forecast for the growth of the Spanish economy to 2.4%. El Mundo notes that is almost a whole percentage point lower than that in the budgets.
Meanwhile many papers note that the € is now worth more than 1.6 dollars for the first time – a record high.
In international stories:
El Mundo notes a report which says the Somali authorities say that they have sent troops to free the Spanish fishing boat – and that the pirates will be executed. The statement made by the Ministry for Security from the region of Puntland.
ABC has a photo of family members of the crew, holding up photos of the boat. The caption says that the boat will be assaulted if the talks fail.
ABC is the only paper to be confident enough to give Hillary Clinton the win the Pennsylvania primary, reporting on polls and first results.
Back in Spain,
El Mundo notes that radioactive particles have been found on the bank of the Ebro river, close to the Ascó nuclear plant, and also notes a lorry left the plant carrying radioactive scrap yesterday.
El País also puts the radioactive lorry on its front page today, as does ABC. ABC says that 1600 people will now be tested for radioactivity.
El País has a special report on what it calls the war of miracle products. The paper says several slimming products hide dangerous hormones. It comes as the Spanish Department of Health has said it is investigating Herbalife.
Público leads its front page with a large picture of an open book on this Dia de San Jordi. The Spanish celebrate St George’s Day by exchanging books and roses, especially in Cataluña, on a day known as the Dia del Libro.
Publico has the headline – Libros para ser libres – Books to be free.
And finally,
El Mundo has the story of a Brazilian priest who has vanished after he took off tied to 1,000 helium party balloons. Some reports say he was tied to a normal chair, and vanished in strong crosswinds.
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