Spain Papers Review - Monday November 2 2009

Spain Papers Review - Monday November 2 2009
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By h.b. - Nov 2, 2009 - 9:31 AM

ABC today with the tragedy on Tenerife

The events in the Partido Popular opposition continue to dominate the newspapers in Spain

El Mundo leads with the headline that party leader Mariano Rajoy told the Valencia President, Francisco Camps, ‘You are to blame for not having the guts with Ricardo Costa’.
The paper says that both Cospedal and Trillo from the party were witness to him asked Camps if his defence of Costa had anything to do with which he may not have confessed in the Gürtel case.
El País leads with the story also, and headlines that Rajoy has put pressure on Camps and Aguirre to resolve the crisis in 24 hours. The paper also notes that the man known as ‘El Bigotes’ in the Gürtel case, invoiced 100,000 € from the last PP party congress.
Público reports that the facts contradict the versions from both Aguirre and Rajoy in the Gürtel case.

ABC headlines that the Partido Popular is to introduce a severe internal code to eradicate the corruption. It says that members of the party cannot accept gifts from companies they contract, and those party members with a public position will have to declare their assets.
La Razón says that at the meeting of the party executive tomorrow, PP leader Mariano Rajoy will demand that those who do not support him to come forward.

El Mundo says the National Court is to investigate why the latest arrests in the corruption scandal in Cataluña were handcuffed and displayed. The paper notes that three members of the group are accused of making 12 million € from the corruption.
El País says that a public company in Santa Coloma was key to the corruption.

The PP leader in the Basque Country, Antonio Basagoiti, is quoted by El Mundo as saying that the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, has ‘lied in the Faisán case as he did with GAL’. Faisán is the case regarding ETA activists being tipped off ahead of a police raid.

El Páis published an opinion poll yesterday showing a dead heat between the two main parties, and indicating that the PP had slipped a few points because of the corruption cases. Today however La Razón has its own poll and concludes that the only think to go up is the abstention rate. It says both the PP and the PSOE are stuck, although it gives the PP 164 seats compared to the 156 for the Socialists.

El País reports that the new head of the Spanish secret service, CNI, Félix Sanz, has sacked his predecessor’s right hand man. The paper notes that those who leaked the details which brought down Alberto Saiz, are still in their jobs.

ABC has a photo of a covered body on a stretcher on a beach in Tenerife, where two women, one of them British, died in a rockfall yesterday. The paper captions ’Tragic afternoon on the beach’.

La Razón says that young Socialists have manipulated images from the anti-abortion rally in Madrid on October 17 to create a video which attacks both the church and the PP.

ABC says the Supreme Court has supported the Government having the authority to decide on the increase in electricity prices. The court rejected an appeal from the power companies who wanted to see a larger price hike.

La Razón says the number of case of adolescents in court for machista violence has soared. The paper says that there have been 40 under 18’s in court over the past three months.

The case of the Somali pirate, one of two caught by the Spanish authorities after the Basque trawler Arakrana was kidnapped with its 36 crew, is 19 years and 8 months old. The conclusion comes from tests of the density of his collar bone. El Mundo says now the judges have to decide what to do with him.

In international stories,

El Mundo reports that Karzai’s rival has retired and by doing so has put the second round of elections in Afghanistan in doubt.
El País has a large front page photo of Abdula Abdula, who has said he has dropped out as ‘Clean elections in Afghanistan are not possible’. The paper says that his withdrawal has sunk the electoral process.

CIT Group, the United States banking group which financed small business has declared itself bankrupt. El Mundo notes that it got 1.6 billion from the rescue fund, and becomes the first bank unable to pay it back.
El País says it’s the fifth largest bankruptcy and that the group had a debt equivalent to 44 billion €. A restructuring of the debt is now intended.

El Mundo has a front page photo of the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, laying a wreath in the holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The Mayor said he was deeply affected by his visit to the Middle East.

The Taliban have, according to ABC, asked for 6,800 € to return the Spanish spy plane which crashed in Afghanistan.
Apparently the commanders are only willing to pay 1,300 €.

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