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Spain Papers Review - Tuesday May 19 2009
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By h.b. - May 19, 2009 - 9:47 AM
ABC today
ABC has a large photo of Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu, who met yesterday in the White House.
The paper says that Obama has called for the creation of a Palestinian state.
El País says Obama made it clear that he thinks that peace in the Middle East depends on the creation of a Palestinian state, exactly the solution which Israel now rejects. El País said the first meeting between the two men saw little in common, Obama talking about the Palestinian crisis and Netanyahu talking about the Iranian nuclear threat.
El País leads with more on the Gürtel case, and says today that the corruption in the Partido Popular has now reached a deputy and an ex-advisor to Francisco Cascos.
The paper says that the businessman, Francisco Correa, noted payments made of 220,000 € for the PP spokesman, Jesús Merino and 30,000 € for Álvaro de la Cruz.
El Mundo notes that the Judge in Valencia hearing the Gürtel case is to call 35 civil servants to declare in an attempt to discover whether Camps helped the man known as ‘El Bigotes’. He is also reported to be looking at all the links to the companies owned by Francisco Correa, the businessman at the centre of the affair.
Público has a photo of factura costs and claims that the PP used parallel accounting in the election campaign for Esperanza Aguirre in Madrid. The paper claims a party foundation in the capital collected donations from businessmen and then paid the facturas for the election campaign for Aguirre. The paper notes the presence of Francisco Correa’s company Special Events, a key player in the Gürtel case. The paper says the foundation concerned has no known activity and has not presented accounts since 2002.
El Mundo leads with the headline that the new ‘prever’ car sales plan from Zapatero has opened war between the autonomous regions.
The paper notes that the same car costs 2,200 € less for a resident of Navarra than one in Cataluña, and notes that Galicia has approved its own plan of help up to 1,500 €.
ABC has an interesting slant on the new deal, saying that the regional administrations will make more money from the matriculation taxes for each car than the 500 € they are being asked to contribute.
El País says that the lack of a legal text has put a brake on the help adding that car dealers are resisting applying the incentive which has not yet been approved in parliament.
ABC headlines that the Socialist party will be turning to the minority groups to get Zapatero’s economic measures approved, while the PP will be able to move their proposals forward with the support of the CiU, PNV and ERC, with the Socialists having to accept a reform of the labour market.
El Mundo has a photo of a worker at the Gijón shipyard throwing a stone at the National Police yesterday, another day of violence against the early retirement plans.
ABC says that those who have drawn up the new abortion law in Spain have admitted that there is no social demand for the change. The paper says many thinks the matter should be tackled away from a general election and outside any electoral manifesto.
La Vanguardia in Barcelona leads with the headline that there are differences in the Socialist party over the part of the new law which allows abortion at 16.
El País notes that the Ortega and Gasset journalism prizes have supported the articles which stop the war being forgotten and support the Historical Memory law.
El Mundo continues with the conspiracy theory over the Madrid Train bombings and today has Carlos Romero, who it describes as an independent technician in the case, who is backing the theory from the other scientist, Antonio Iglesias, over doubts on the type of explosives used. The item has the headline ‘The person responsible from the Scientific Police took the Micky’.
El Mundo reports that the Catalan Socialist Party PSC, has asked for Catalan, Galician and Basque languages to be taught across Spain, and they are to present a motion to the Senate calling for them to be added at a secondary level.
El País continues with it’s third series of articles on Sexual exploitation in Spain, and says that while some traffic with the immigrants, others put them in ‘alternative clubs’ of which there are some 2,500 in Spain.
El Mundo notes that the Caja Madrid savings bank has approved the purchase of a 510,717 € car for the Chairman, Miguel Blesa. The paper says that meanwhile 20 bank executives in the bankrupt Caja Castilla La Mancha are still using an official car, chauffer and Visa Oro.
Público notes that ten Spaniards have asked not to appear in Google.
El Periodico notes that Barcelona City Hall has called on the football club to open up the Camp Nou on May 27, the night of the Champions League final in Rome.
And finally,
El País has a photo of the body of Mario Benedetti lying in state in Montevideo. The paper says Uruguay is in mourning for its most loved writer and poet.
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