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Spain Press Review - Friday June 26 2009
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By h.b. - Jun 26, 2009 - 9:43 AM
El Mundo today
El Mundo headlines that the King of Pop is dead. The paper says that Michael Jackson died in a Los Ángeles hospital after being found not breathing at his rented home in the city.
The paper says he was 50 years old and had been singing since he was five. The paper says the news broke surrounded in mystery, just like when Elvis Presley died.
El Mundo prints a front page photo of him taken back in 2005 and an obituary entitled ‘The tragedies of the latest Peter Pan’.
El País has a picture of Jackson on stage and says the King of Pop has died. The paper says he succumbed to a heart attack and highlights his frustrated come-back with the 50 planned concerts in London.
La Vanguardía says that a heart attack ended the reign of Michael Jackson and El Periódico says Jackson revolutionised the music of the 80’s.
El Mundo also notes the death of Farrah Fawcett, the Charlie’s Angel who died from cancer yesterday at the age of 62.
In other news:
El País tells is that the army in Honduras has taken to the streets after its boss was sacked. The paper says that both the Parliament and the Supreme Court are against President Zelaya.
El Mundo reports that the Government now considers the position of Alberto Saiz, as head of the CNI secret service, as untenable.
ABC headlines that the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha offered money to the affected families to stay away from the court case following the fatal fire in Guadalajara in 2005. The paper says it has had access to a text which apologises and gives about 120,000 € to each of the 8 victim’s families.
El País leads with the headline that the Supreme Court is investigating whether the man at the centre of the Gürtel case, businessman Francisco Correa, paid for a luxury holiday taken by the PP treasurer, Luis Bárcenas. The paper says the prosecutor thinks that PP Treasurer had a free safari in South Africa.
Público reports that more members of the PP have been calling on party leader Mariano Rajoy to force the exit of Bárcenas.
El Mundo tells us that the PP placed a legal complaint in the courts against the Minister Manuel Chaves and his daughter yesterday, only to withdraw it hours later. The pp say they will present it again with new accusations, and notes that the party in Andalucía only found out about it all from the press. El Mundo says the whole procedure was almost vaudeville, with an error in internal communication in the party being blamed.
El Mundo notes that the PSOE in Andalucía has blocked an investigation into the allegation that when President of the Junta de Andaulcía, Manuel Chaves gave preferential treatment and a grant to a mining company represented legally by his daughter.
Público reports the vote in Congress yesterday backing a new limit on the concept of Universal Justice which has been used by the National Court in Spain.
El País notes that latest economic data has shown that Spain is moving backwards in its convergence with Europe.
ABC says that Zapatero’s Spain has returned to the level of 2006, and that the per capital wealth of the Spaniards fell by 1.5% last year, three times more than the other countries in the Euro zone.
Público leads with the headline that a life-saving fund of 99 billion € is to be approved by the Government for Spanish banks and savings banks today. The paper shows Rodríguez Zapatero, Fernández de la Vega and Salgado in congress yesterday when they voted on a budgetary ceiling on public spending next year.
The paper considers that the financial sector will be restructured with mergers and that hundreds of branches are set to close. The Bank of Spain will direct the process to send the money to strengthen the entities with problems.
La Vanguardia headlines that the Sabadell, Terrassa, Manresa and Manlleu banks are negotiating on their merger in Cataluña.
El Periódico headlines that Seat is sending 900 workers home for four months. The paper notes it is the company’s third ERE employment application so far this year, and the jobs will go from September.
ABC tells us that the new owners of the Opel plant are to sack 1,600 from the factory in Figueruelas, Zaragoza.
El Mundo reports that the PNV, the Basque Nationalist Party, wants to know why the Spanish flag was placed on a cross erected on the mountain at Gorbea. The army has said it is common for them to fly the flag when they climb a summit.
And finally
ABC has a front page photo of Pedro Jiménez, who had been given an 83 year prison sentence for the killing of two policemen. Now the Supreme Court has changed the criteria in the case and he will face a retrial by jury. He is being held in custody meanwhile because of other crimes.
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