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Spain Papers Review - Friday February 13 2009
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By h.b. - Feb 13, 2009 - 9:46 AM
Today's El Mundo front page
El Mundo leads again with the ongoing corruption case linked to the Partido Popular with the paper reporting that the National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón putting the party in Madrid and Valencia under suspicion.
The judge’s summary says that multiple counts of bribery have been carried out and gifts were given to civil servants and authorities, although the paper notes he does not specify any of them.
Público also highlights that ongoing part of the investigation.
As the investigation continues El Mundo has a photo of the man known as ‘El bigotes’. The moustached Álvaro Pérez has been released by the judge although has to report to the police weekly and stay in Spain.
El Mundo also reports that the General Council for Judicial Power, CGPJ, is to investigate Judge Garzón, to see why he went hunting for a weekend leaving three people waiting to declare in the cells.
The paper also reveals that the police are looking for a suitcase which is said to implicate top members of the Partido Popular. The paper says it was removed from a safe deposit box four days before the arrest of Francisco Correa and that it contains 200,000 € in cash.
El País leads with the headline that the judge is investigating who in the P.P. accepted the bribes allegedly paid by Correa. The paper reports that ‘gifts’ were given to civil servants and public authorities, and that the network had a safe house to hide documents.
ABC highlights the claim that Judge Garzón and Justice Minister Bermejo had a private conversation in the hotel during their hunting weekend together in Jaén.
The latest inflation number, at 0.8%, came too late for the papers this morning, but El Mundo notes that the fall in family consumer spending is the main reason of the recession in Spain.
ABC leads with the Socialist plans for changes to the abortion law, and will open abortion to 16 year old without the consent of their parents.
El Mundo reveals today that one of the organisers of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai acted from Barcelona. The paper says that the Pakistani Intelligence Agency claims that Javed Iqbal purchased an internet domain in Spain so that the terrorists could communicate between each other.
ABC also has the story and talks of a link to Italy as well.
El País has a front page photo of Barack Obama shaking hands with an actor impersonating President Lincoln. The paper says that Congress has signed the cheque to get out of the crisis.
Here in Spain El País reports that Zapatero has repeated to the Bank of Spain that he will not be making redundancies here any cheaper.
El Mundo reports that 45 young girls have had an adverse reaction to the cervical cancer vaccine in the Valencia region.
El País notes that the CIS, the Centre for Sociological Investigation has polled that the three way government in the Basque Country will lose its overall majority in the regional elections on March 1.
ABC has a photo of the lehendakari and says that the Socialists and the P.P. could put an end to the Ibarretxe era.
El País notes that the development fund in Spain will no longer pay for projects such as the controversial ceiling painted by Barceló in the United Nations building in Geneva.
And finally,
Slumdog Millionaire opens in Spain today, and many papers, including El Mundo have features on the surprise film which is opting for ten Oscars.
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