Spain Papers Review - Tuesday October 13 2009
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By h.b. - Oct 13, 2009 - 9:00 AM
The Spanish media will be watching the events in a meeting of the Partido Popular party executive in Valencia today when the Number Two in the region, Ricardo Costa, has been asked to present his resignation

El Mundo leads with the story and says Costa will tell the meeting today that the Madrid bosses of the party have never asked him not to deal with ‘El Bigotes’, the link man to the allegedly corrupt companies. The paper says Costa will read a statement before the meeting saying he will not resign as he has not been charged, and that he has always followed the instructions of Camps and Rajoy, and acted loyally, correctly and responsibly. The paper says that he will also put his income tax returns at the disposition of the party.
El Mundo also reports that the party’s leader in Galicia, Feijóo, has said that ‘Nobody from the PP will go to jail with those who are guilty’.
El País also leads with the story and headlines that Camps had called Costa to make sure that he is not signalled out in the Gürtel case. The paper considers that the PP leader in Valencia is facing today the tensest of meetings in the regional party.
ABC says that Camps plans Costa’s return in four months.
Público reveals that one of the Gürtel companies took part in the Pope’s visit to Valencia in 2006.

El Mundo has a front page photo of one of the Somali pirates arriving in Madrid last night. The paper notes that the pirates still holding the trawler ‘Alakrana’ have said they will only negotiate if Spain frees their two colleagues.
El País has a front page photo of one of the pirates also.

Many of the papers report on the boos received by the Prime Minister at the military parade in Madrid yesterday. El Mundo notes that the Mayor of Madrid came to his support by saying ‘Today is not the day’.
El País notes Zapatero’s reply to him ‘It’s become a ritual’.
ABC leads with the story and says that Zaptero has scorned the booing with his comment.
La Razón has a large photo of the parade and comments that Zapatero has played down the boos with his comment about it being a ritual.
Público leads with the story and says that extremist groups tried to break up the Armed Forces parade with insults and boos against the Prime Minister and other members of the Government. The paper notes that Zapatero played down the incidents, Gallardón condemned them, and Mariano Rajoy declined to criticise them.
El Periódico notes that the Basque Government attended the parade for the first time yesterday.

ABC fails to mention the Prime Minister is in Washington today to meet Obama, but does headline that the King will be going to see the US President before the end of the year.
La Vanguardia leads with Zapatero’s visit and says he hopes that Obama will help him get out of the hole he is in.

El País continues with its revelations about the Tablas de Daimiel Nature Park, and says today that the damage done by the underground peat fire is irreversible.
The paper says that the Director of the park has said it is impossible to flood the area where the peat is burning as there is no infrastructure which will send the water to where it is needed.

ABC says that the bank is threatening the recovery of the real estate industry, because of its own high stock of property, which it has collected in embargoes.

Público reports that the head of the employers’ organisation, Díaz Ferrán, has black holes in his companies. The paper notes that his tourism group has debts to Social Security, cancellation of contracts and delays in wage payments. The paper notes that a judge in the United States has ordered the embargo of money from his airline company, Air Comet.

La Razón tells us that a Municipal policeman in Madrid earns upto 45% more than a National policeman working in the capital.

In international news;
El Mundo notes that the woman who has acted as an interpreter for the paper in Iran, Fariba Pajooh, has been in prison for the past 52 days accused of spreading ‘propaganda against the Islamic Republic’.

El País reports on what it says is the meteoric rise of the 23 year old son of Sarkozy. Jean Sarkozy has caused controversy over his possibly naming as president of the EPAD, a public body which regulates the business area on the edge of Paris.

La Razón reports that the Government wants Judge Garzón to be the new ‘link’ judge with Colombia.

El País covers the wave of privatisations planned by Gordon Brown in the UK as a way of stopping the increase in the public debt. The paper says he wants to counter attack the Conservative Party with the move which includes the channel tunnel rail link and 33% of Urenco, a European consortium which enriches Uranium. El País says that Brown’s two year plan could raise some 17 billion €.

And finally,
El Mundo notes that the new Spanish film from Alejandro Alménabar, Ágora, took five million € in its first weekend in Spain.

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