Spain Papers Review - Monday September 28 2009

Spain Papers Review - Monday September 28 2009
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By h.b. - Sep 28, 2009 - 8:53 AM
The German and Portugal election results dominate the front pages in Spain today

Today's El País

El Mundo has a photo of Angela Merkel carrying a victory bouquet and headlines that she and the liberals won after promising to reduce taxes. The paper notes the SPD saw its worst result, weakened by the rise on the left.
El País headlines that Germany has turned to the right to give a majority to Merkel and the liberals. The paper also notes the collapse in the social democratic vote, their worst result since the war.
El País and ABC have front page photos of Merkel, with the latter noting her plans to reduce taxes, saying she will govern with the Liberals after the collapse of the Socialists.
Público headlines that Germany has turned to the right, while the Socialist Sócrates will continue in Portugal. The paper says that Merkel achieved her objective of abandoning the grand coalition with the SDP.

El Mundo notes that the Socialist José Sócrates has won again in Portugal, although he did not reach an overall majority.
El País says he got six points more than his main rival, Manuela Ferreira Leite.
La Razón says the right wing suffered because of their anti-Spain campaign.

El Mundo has a photo of PP leader Mariano Rajoy greeting a spontaneous child at a rally organized by the opposition in Dos Hermanas, Sevilla. He used the occasion to harshly attack the government’s plans to increase VAT/IVA,
ABC headlines that Rajoy attacked the fiscal ‘bodge’ claiming it to be prejudicial and lacking solidarity. The paper describes the rally as a exhibition of strength from the PP.
Público says that Rajoy has forecast catastrophe, but said nothing about the Gürtel cases. The paper says he even told children that Zapatero is putting VAT up on their sweets.
La Razón headlines that Rajoy has warned that the tax increases will sink Spain, and also that consumers associations, housewives, businessmen, the self-employed and hoteliers have all criticised the reform which will ‘show down the economy’.

El País notes that the G-20 has insisted on bankers returning their bonuses if the bank makes a loss. El País notes that this falls short of an agreement to limit the bonuses in the first place.

There is more coverage of the allegations of illegal financing of the Partido Popular in Valencia, with El Mundo reporting that four constructors are accused of paying half a million € to cover PP costs. The paper says the police claim that the PP accepted that the Orange Market company subsidized the party’s debts.
El Mundo also notes that PP number two in the region, Ricardo Costa, has ruled out resigning over the affair.
El País has its fourth day of revelations and says the police have also found indications of illegal financing of the Partido Popular when José María Aznar was in power between 1996 and 1999.

ABC reports that the ETA political wing, Batasuna, has admitted that it being banned from the local elections in 2011 ‘will be the start of the end’. Critical militants consider that not being in the institutions is like ‘being in exile’.
La Razón reports that the ETA activist, Txeroki, was on the point of causing a split in ETA in 2008.

Público reports on the arrest of Roman Polanski in Switzerland for the underage sex case which dates from 31 years ago.

Público also notes that the coup leader in Honduras, Micheletti, has broken off diplomatic relations with Spain, and has threatened Brazil.

And finally,
El País is among the papers to show a photo of the human mosaic assembled in the centre of Madrid yesterday to support the city’s 2016 Olympic bid.
La Razón has a large front page photo and says that more than half a million people attended the event.

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