Spain Papers Review - Wednesday November 4 2009larger |
smallerBy h.b. - Nov 4, 2009 - 9:06 AM
El Mundo today
El Mundo headlines that Rajoy has threatened to leave both Gallardón, the Mayor of Madrid, and Esperanza Aguirre, off new candidate lists. The paper notes he also thinks the attack on Aguirre (from the Deputy Mayor of Madrid) was ‘inadmissible’.
Rajoy said that making public declarations about internal party matters will not be allowed to happen again.
Already there are pubic criticisms of that; The PP leader in Alicante, José Joaquín Ripoll, has commented ‘Stopping people making declarations belongs to other times’.
El Mundo notes the call from the Madrid Mayor, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, not to punish his deputy, Manuel Cobo, as a pay-off for Aguirre giving way on Caja Madrid.
‘Here I am, rowing against the current’ is a quote from Esperanza Aguirre in El Mundo as the paper shows her on some form of exercise machine.
El País headlines that the ongoing fight in the Madrid party has frustrated the authority of Rajoy. The paper notes that Aguirre did not attend the meeting yesterday and that the crisis in the party remains open. The paper lists the three clear criticisms made by Rajoy in his speech against Aguirre, Camps and Cobo. Como tells the paper that he is scared for his children, saying that the Aguirre government spied on him. He has apologized to the executive, but has not retracted his comments.
ABC says that Rajoy has reminded the PP leaders that it is he who controls the candidate lists.
Público headlines that Rajoy has threatened to erase the rebels from the lists, and notes the absence of Aguirre.
El Mundo gives prominence to the news from General Motors, who now say they will not sell Opel, preferring now to restructure their operations in Europe.
El País reports that unemployment in Spain grew by nearly 100,000 people in October, and that 26,000 stopped paying into the Social Security system.
ABC leads with unemployment and headlines that there will be 20.5% unemployment at the doors of the election in 2012. The paper reports on an EU warning that Spain will have the highest unemployment rate in Europe in 2011.
El Mundo reports on a 1.5 million € payment via the Caixa Cartalunya, to some of the allegedly corrupt members of the Pujol government when it controlled Cataluña. It was all linked to the purchase of some land in Badalona port.
El País notes that the Czech president, Václav Klaus, has finally signed the EU treaty.
El País reports that Cajastur has taken over Caja Castilla La Mancha to create the 8th largest entity in the sector. It will get 1.3 billion from the guarantee fund for taking on the loss-making Castilla-La Mancha.
Público highlights a ruling from Strasbourg and the European Court of Human Rights, has said that a crucifix on the wall of a classroom violates ‘the religious freedom rights of parents to educate their children according to their convictions’. The paper notes that the Vatican is yet to comment.
Many of the papers, including El Mundo, note two important deaths in the world of culture. Francisco Ayala, the Granada writer who has died at the age of 103, and Lévi-Strauss who has died at the age of 100.
El País has a large front page photo of Ayala, describing his as grand as the century.
ABC too, with a large photo, saying the conscience of a century has been extinguished with the death of Ayala.
Público says an intellectual republican has died.
And finally,
El Mundo and ABC note that the Government is to remove the tax breaks on top-earning footballers, and that has brought the threat of a strike from the Spanish league.
(La Razón has not updated their .pdf at the time of writing)
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