Spain Press Review - Friday July 3 2009
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By h.b. - Jul 3, 2009 - 9:43 AM
The resignation of the Director of the Spanish Secret Service dominates the papers in Spain today

El Mundo, which has spent the last few weeks printing revelations against the head of the CNI Spanish Secret Service, Alberto Saiz, headlines today that he brought forward his resignation when he saw he had been abandoned by Zapatero.
The paper notes that the Prime Minister has named General Sanz Roldán as the new Director given the job of ‘pacifying’ the CNI.
El Mundo has a photo of the Prime Minister with the General after a meeting in the Moncloa yesterday.
El País says that Saiz resigned after he saw his plan to sack some 60 spies vetoed. The paper says he falls victim to the alleged scandals publicised by his own agents.
ABC headlines that the Government has chosen a military man to end the war between the clans in the CNI. The paper notes it has designated General Félix Sanz Roldán, to pacify the centre hit by internal fighting. ABC says that Alberto Saiz resigned to avoid matters getting worse but reiterated his innocence.
Público uses its front page today to contrast how Zapatero has obliged the spy chief to resign, while the PP leader Rajoy is insisting ‘nothing has changed with Bárcenas’ – his party treasurer who is facing fraud and other charges in the Supreme Court. The paper says that Alberto Saiz had lost the confidence of 80% of his subordinates.
La Vanguardia headlines that Zapatero has opened a crisis at the top of the espionage body.

Another regular El Mundo target is National Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, but the paper today says that the General Council for Judicial Power has closed the investigation against the judge over 176,000$ he earned during a year’s sabbatical in the United States.

El Mundo is not too convinced by the 55.250 reduction in the numbers of unemployed last month, noting a 30% increase in the number of temporary contracts.
El País also notes that it is the temporary contracts for the tourist season which have help the numbers.
Público says the fall of 55,250 is the best June since 2001 for the unemployment numbers from INEM.

In international stories,
El Mundo reports that Obama has launched 10,000 marines against a Taliban base in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Público puts the number at 4,000.
El País has front page photo of some of the marines, and says the United States has launched its fiercest offensive yet against the Taliban.

ABC has a photo of Roberto Micheletti, the interim President of Honduras, who says there was no coup in the country, but a constitutional succession.

El País notes that the AF447 Air France plane did not break up in the air according to the latest report from the investigators. They now consider the airbus fell into the Atlantic at great speed.

El Mundo reports that fans and TV journalists have converted the old Michael Jackson ranch, Neverland, into a media circus.

Back in Spain there is widespread coverage on the Prime Minister’s decision over the future of the Santa María de Garoña nuclear power station in Burgos.
As El Mundo puts it, Zapatero will close the plant if he wins the elections in 2012. He has ordered the closure for July 6 2013, while the PP leader Mariano Rajoy says that his government would keep it open until 2019.
El País also has the story and considers that Zapatero has effectively put off the decision until the next legislature.
ABC considers that by making this decision Zapatero has turned a deaf ear to the experts.

El País has coverage for the 8 children who have arrived on a patera small boat off the coast of Tarifa.

ABC notes the three way government in Cataluña with a threat to veto over the financing of the region.

And finally.
Público notes that Spain is to start a new plan against immigrant ghettos.

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