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Spain Press Review - Friday June 19 2009
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By h.b. - Jun 19, 2009 - 9:33 AM
ABC front page today
El País leads with the events in Tehran, has a photo from a demonstration yesterday, and says that the popular revolt has obliged the Iranian regime to dialogue. The paper says that the Council of Guardians has called the reformist leaders to a meeting.
El Mundo says yesterday’s event was a large rally in honour of the victims of the Iranian repression.
El País tells us that the high debt level of real estate promoters has made the crisis worst in Spain. Bad debt levels linked to construction has increased in just a year by 21.5 billion €, according to the paper.
ABC reports that the Bank of Spain will only intervene to help savings banks in difficulty if they are ordered to do so by the Government.
The Socialist party PSOE is negotiating with the nationalist and minority parties the possibilities of increasing the top rates of income tax, as a way of getting enough support in Congress to pass the state budget. Such increases are a condition of the left wing, says the paper.
El Mundo has a front page photo of Maria Emilia Casas, the President of the Constitutional Court, who yesterday presented the review of 2008. The paper headlines that she has justified the three years spent by the court still without resolving the question of the Catalan statutes, saying they have been working on the case ‘intensely and without interruption’.
Meanwhile El Mundo also notes that Zapatero has increased the offer of additional financing for Cataluña from 1.2 billion € to 2.5 billion for 2010.
El País reports that Ireland has rejected the offers from the European Union on voting for a new EU treaty. The paper says that Ireland is once again ‘an obstacle in the development of the European project’. Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, has said the EU offers are still not enough to pass the Lisbon Treaty at a referendum in the country.
Público tells us that the European Union is to adopt the Spanish model for financial supervision. It says the 27 member countries have agreed to create a new council to watch over the large banks, and obliging them to make provisions to face the new crisis.
The paper also notes that Mariano Rajoy has been left isolated in Europe in his defence of lower taxes.
ABC reports that Hugo Chávez has named the man who organised the repression in Venezuela as his ambassador in Madrid. Julián Isaías Rodriguez, was the general prosecutor in Venezuela between 2000 and 2007 and took part in most of the cases against those opposing the regime.
Continuing its attack on the CNI, the Spanish Secret Service, El Mundo says today that the heads of the anti-terrorism branch have all resigned over the past month. The paper claims that Alberto Saiz has not been informing the Minister of Defence, Carme Chacón, about what has been going on, and that she ask him in writing to do so last week.
El Pais tells us that the Partido Popular is distancing itself from the Spanish bishops on the changes to the abortion law. It comes after a call from the bishops yesterday to catholic deputies to stop the new law.
As El Mundo puts the Bishops’ statement ‘A Catholic cannot vote yes to abortion’.
ABC leads with the story and headlines ‘The Government refuses the Bishops their right to reject the abortion law’. The paper reports comments from the Minister for the Economy, Elena Salgado, who has said ‘The church, as ever, does not know its place’.
Público leads with a story on the crimes from the Franco era reaching Strasbourg. It says the family of the republican deputy, Luis Dorado, who was assassinated in 1936, has presented the first request to open the Civil War graves before the Court for Human Rights.
And finally,
El Mundo has been quick off the presses to report on the the death of the Spanish missionary, Vicente Ferrer, who has died in India at the age of 89. The paper says he dedicated five decades of his life to the poorest people of India.
ABC too has changed its front page to give him a large front page photo, describing Vicente Ferrer as the man who took hope to India. The paper says he leaves 135,000 orphans behind in his foundation.
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