Spain Papers Review - Tuesday August 10 2010
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By h.b. - Aug 10, 2010 - 9:58 AM
The choice of Socialist candidate for the Madrid regional elections still dominates many of the papers.

ABC splits its front page into two photos, one of Tomas Gómez arriving at the party’s headquarters by Metro, and one of Trinidad Jiménez arriving by an official car. The paper considers the candidacy of Jiménez will force a cabinet reshuffle, and that there is talk of a super Ministry of Health, Employment, Social Affairs and Equality with Bibiana Aído in charge.
La Razón headlines however that Zapatero will make no cabinet reshuffle because of the ‘battle of Madrid’. The paper also has a photo of Trinidad Jiménez, and says that she has admitted that she starts from behind in the primary race on October 3.
El Mundo has a photo of Jiménez getting out of her car, and says she has started by saying that she is not Zapatero’s candidate. ‘The Prime Minister has not asked me for anything’, she said when announcing that she would be standing against Gómez in Madrid.
El País also has a photo of Jiménez who the paper says opened battle in Madrid backing the Socialist hierarchy. ‘I will be candidate for the activists, not the Prime Minister’, she said.
El Pais also has an interview with Tomás Gómez, who tells the paper that he does not rely on the support of Zapatero.
Público highlights the number 17,809 – the number of Socialist members in Madrid whose votes will decide the matter. The paper has two columns outlining the policies of each candidate.

El Mundo says that the air traffic controllers are perched to declare the ‘most damaging strike for everybody’. The paper says that nobody is moving an inch, and that three days have passed without a telephone being lifted.
Público says that AENA, the Spanish Airports Authority, forecasts that 100% of essential flights will be maintained in the case of a strike.

El País reports of concern in the Spanish Foreign Ministry at the avalanche of protests from Morocco. The 5th protest note in less than a month came against the allegedly racist attitude of the security forces on the Ceuta and Melilla borders.

El Mundo leads with the headline that Brussels is planning a new tax to finance the E.U. The paper says that the proposal will be presented in the month of September, and that in exchange the payments made by each member state will be reduced.

ABC notes it was a bad weekend on Spain’s roads during the ongoing conflict of the Guardia Civil not placing fines, but the DGT traffic authority has not linked the 26 deaths to the Guardia action.
La Razón notes that more than half the fatalities were not travelling in cars.

El Mundo notes that the Socialists on the Baleares and the ERC in Cataluña have both criticized the USA report on Catalan which was reported on here yesterday.

La Razón notes that the Madrid region is the only one in Spain where the state will pay back money for 2008. The paper notes that Andalucía and Cataluña are the regions to owe most to the state coffers.

ABC reports that the BBVA bank has corrected the Government and warned that the Spanish economy will not grow this year.

La Razón reports that 50 Spaniards are missing in the region of India destroyed by flooding.

El País reports that the Taliban have executed a pregnant woman. The 35 year old widow received 200 lashes and was shot three times for having ‘an illicit relationship’.

El Mundo has a photo of Mia Farrow on its front page, and says that Naomi Campbell told her that she had received ‘an enormous diamond’ from Charles Taylor. She got the gift after flirting with him, according to the top model’s agent.
El País considers that Mia Farrow has contradicted the statement made by Naomi Campbell.

Ferran Adría explains his plans for the future of the El Bulli restaurant in El País today.
Público reports that three Iberian Lynx have died and 22 are ill because of an error in the Doñana Nature Park.

And finally
El Mundo puts Tom Cruise’s adopted daughter on its masthead today. It says that she has abandoned the actor, fed up with his Scientology.

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