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Spain Press Review - Wednesday June 24 2009
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By h.b. - Jun 24, 2009 - 9:33 AM
El Mundo today
El País leads with the headline that the Government withdrew plans to increase taxes for high income earners just six hours after proposing the amendment. It came as the PSOE Socialists were trying to reach a pact with the left wing on the new state budgets.
ABC headlines that the PSOE has had to renounce higher taxes for the rich because of their weakness in Congress. It notes that they made a pact to do so at 1030 with the IU left wingers, but after the left wing failed to support a budgetary limit for 2010, removed the idea at 1830 to hence obtain the support of the Catalan party CiU.
El País also notes that the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez, has said he prefers not to save all the weak banks and savings banks. He said that the weak should be absorbed and disappear, and those that receive money from the state should merge.
El Periódico headlines that the PSOE did not obtain the support to increase top rate taxes.
El Mundo leads with more on the CNI Spanish secret service head, Alberto Saiz, who has now claimed an attack against him by agents of the old CESID. He has denied the allegations printed in the paper over recent days and says he has never paid personal costs with public money and has presented facturas to prove his case. However he has admitted using as lie-detector machine on several agents and to have employed members of his family.
The paper shows a photo of Alberto Saiz appearing before Congress yesterday.
El País reports that Alberto Saiz has admitted that there are tensions in the CNI.
El País has a photo of one of the alleged ETA activists who was arrested yesterday. Three were detained in total along with 75 kilos of explosives, and the paper describe it as a blow to terrorists just four days after the killing of the Police Inspector, Eduardo Puelles.
ABC also has a photo of the ETA activist, Patxi Uranga, at the time of his arrest. The paper says that another ETA command unit has fallen, and that they were prepared to kill. The new lendakari has said that he will only help the families of those ETA prisoners who condemn the use of violence.
El País tells us that Barack Obama has expressed his ‘horror and indignation’ over the repression in Iran. The paper says that Tehran has extended the time to revise the opposition’s complaints about the election.
La Vanguardia headlines that Tehran has provoked a diplomatic crisis with London as diplomats are recalled.
El Mundo reports that the new proposed abortion law with time limits is unconstitutional, in the opinion of the Prosecuting Council. The paper notes however that the Attorney General, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, did not support the opinion.
El País says that the conservative prosecutors have denied the idea that abortion is a right.
El Mundo notes that the Interior Minister Rubalcaba has changed his mind, and will now offer bodyguard assistance to Mariano Rajoy, the PP leader, on his trips abroad.
El Mundo notes the problems for the Prime Minister’s jet during take-off in Togo. The paper says a cloud of mosquitos caused the plane to lose speed during take-off, the driver decided to abort, and braking the tyres burst.
ABC says the pilot had to brake brusquely and the tyres burst from the heat.
El País has a two page feature on how the young generation are finding it hard to get a job – it’s called ‘Too old at 35’.
El Mundo has a small photo of Silvio Berlusconi who has said he has never paid for any woman. The Italian leader has defended what he called ‘the pleasure of the conquest’.
And finally,
El Mundo reports on what it describes as Love Story II, as Ryan O’Neal gets married to the terminally ill Farrah Fawcett.
(Público PDF is offline today)
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