Spain Papers Review - Monday November 9 2009

Spain Papers Review - Monday November 9 2009
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By h.b. - Nov 9, 2009 - 9:35 AM

ABC in Berlin

The future of the 36 crew of the Spanish tuna fishing boat Alakrana dominates the papers this morning

El Mundo headlines that the Government has accepted that the pirates serve their time in Somalia. The paper has a photo of the Captain and a quote ‘They were going to cut my throat in the morning, now the chief of the pirates is smiling’.
El País headlines ‘They are drugged, aggressive and we are getting exhausted’. The captain tells the paper that the pirates point guns at them, kick them and spit at them.
ABC says that the Pirates claim that three of the crew are still on land and not returned to the ship as has been claimed.

El País has a front page photo from El Salvador where hurricane Ida has caused 91 deaths and 60 more are missing. It says much of the infrastructure is broken and shows a missing bridge in the photo.

El Mundo has a front page photo of Angela Merkel signing a piece of the Berlin Wall which fell 20 years ago today. The caption reads ‘Tonight, Freedom’. The paper quotes her as saying that she would not worry if Socialism fell with the wall. The paper also quotes Putin who has said that reunification was inevitable; it is impossible to hold back a people. El Mundo counteracts that with the Spanish Communist Party and has a picture of them with fists in the air as they elected a new leader, José Luis Centella.
ABC has a front page photo from the Brandenburg Gate. The paper says that Berlin has brought together world leaders on the anniversary of the fall of the wall, which started the decline of the Soviet regime.

El País notes the ‘gigantic step’ as the paper puts it, for Obama in the reform of the United States health system, as the House of Representatives gives the green light to the project.
ABC notes that the vote was only won by five, and now goes to the Senate where it needs more consensus. ABC notes that an anti-abortion amendment saved the vote in the lower chamber.

El País notes that wind power has generated more than 50% of Spain’s electricity needs for the very first time. It happened for five hours in the early hours of Sunday.

El Mundo highlights a poll of PP voters which shows that 64% want to see an extraordinary congress. The paper says that Rodrigo Rato and Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón are the favourites for 2012, ahead of the current leader Mariano Rajoy. They get 27% and 20.3% and Rajoy gets 18.9%.
Público has its own poll and notes that the public are increasingly fed up with both Zapatero and Rajoy. 59.4% now disapprove of Zapatero, compared to 52.3% last month, while Rajoy’s disapproval number has gone from 60.6% to 65.9%. The poll shows a closing of the two main parties with the PP down 2.5% and the PSOE down 1.1% to stand at 40.5 and 36.9%

El País highlights what it describes as the curious evasions of Francisco Camps, the party’s leader in Valencia, before the judge José Flors. The paper has the transcript which dates from May 20.
Magistrate – ‘What does Señor Pérez owe you? (That is Álvaro Pérez, known as El Bigotes). Camps replies, ‘All the Valencians owe me a lot. They recognize my effort’.

ABC headlines details from the corruption alleged in Cataluña. Felip Puig, the number two to Artur Mas, and the public works councillor to Jordi Pujol, is the owner of a company which collected 100,000 € for a real estate study.

El País notes that the Ministry for the Economy’s plans for balance in 2010-2012 include the possible closure of some public bodies in order to control the enormous public deficit.

In sport the papers, including El Mundo on its masthead, note that Portugal want the injured Ronaldo to play against Bosnia. Real Madrid want the player to rest and stay in Madrid.

(La Razón pdf is missing this morning)

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