Spain Papers Review - Thursday September 9 2010
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By h.b. - Sep 9, 2010 - 7:03 AM
A Government change in allowing municipalities to apply for infrastructure credits leads most of the papers.

El País says that Zapatero has changed his mind to ‘save’ the large cities from bankruptcy. It notes too that Madrid and Valencia are left out of the plan to allow the higher debt.
El Mundo describes it as the third ‘lurch’ on the municipalities in 100 days by the Government. First they stopped them taking on any more debt from May 24, then they delayed it to January 1, and now the restriction has been lifted for nearly all.
ABC says the criteria have been changed to allow Barcelona and Sevilla greater debt.
La Razón has a photo of Elena Salgado in the corridors of Congress yesterday and describes her as the Deputy President who puts out fires. The paper notes the credit change favours the PSOE heartlands.

El Mundo notes that the UGT union has excelled itself in vulgarity. In its second video to promote the General Strike the paper says a pimping boss compares an employee to a sanitary towel and makes obscene gestures.

ABC has a large photo of the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, and captions that the Government will hand the PNV, Basque Nationalist Party, the key to the budgets. The paper says Zapatero has invited them to take part in the drawing up of the budget, and Rajoy has asked that votes are not exchanged for greater spending.

The primary election for the PSOE candidate in the Madrid region continues to result in newsprint. El Mundo has a photo of Trinidad Jiménez and, a poster design, Obama style, of Tomás Gómez. Those who would be Obama! is the caption. Trini can.

Esperanza Aguirre, the PP regional president in Madrid, has come out in support of Francisco Álvarez Cascos as the party’s candidate in Asturias. The paper notes that Mariano Rajoy has not commented.

ABC reports that CiU is searching for a seat in the renovation of the Constitutional Court. The paper says the PP and the PSOE have agreed the measure to break the stalemate.

El Mundo notes that the prosecutor has asked for the prohibition of a demonstration by the new Batasuna platform on Saturday.
La Razón says that ETA plans to put pro-ETA supporters as assessors in the Town Halls won by EA, if they are not allowed to present a new party.

ABC says that Garmendia, the Minister for Science and Technology, wants to leave the cabinet and return to the private sector. The paper says that Zapatero will study the integration of the Ministry with that of Education or Industry.


In international news
Surprising headline in El Mundo where in an interview, Fidel Castro has declared ‘The Cuba model does not work anymore, not even for us’. Commentators consider he is opening the way to allow his brother Raul to bring in sweeping changes.
El País also has the story of the interview given to the United States journalist, Jeffery Goldberg.

El País has a photo taken after the coach crash in Morocco yesterday, just over the border with Ceuta. It says that nine Portuguese tourists died when the 65 year old Spanish driver lost control of the coach. The paper says that ambulances took more than an hour to arrive.

El País says the United States is mobilising against the anti-Islamic hysteria ahead of September 11th. The paper reports world condemnation of the announcement of the burning of copies of the Koran by Terry Jones, a extremist pastor in Florida.
La Razón headlines that the majority of Spaniards reject Muslims, describing the item on the controversy of Islamic integration. A study from the Foreign Ministry shows that 53.6% of Spaniards have a bad opinion of Muslims. The paper notes that the Defence Minister, Carme Chacón, has compared the prayers of Ramadan with the visit of the Pope. It notes that the United States and the Vatican have condemned the campaign calling on people to burn the Koran.

El País notes that the stoning of the woman accused of adultery has been suspended in Iran following international pressure.

El País puts top chef Ferran Adrià on its masthead, and tells us that he is giving classes in Harvard University.

El Mundo puts a dinosaur on its masthead today. It says the first hunchback and carnivorous example has been discovered in Cuenca.
El País says the beast is called ‘Pepito’ and the hunchback was six metres long.
La Razón puts ‘pepito’ on its masthead and describes it as the most complete fossil found so far in Spain.

And finally,
Disappointment for Spain in the World Basketball Championship, beaten yesterday by Serbia. El Mundo notes it was a triple in the last seconds of the match which took Spain out.

(Público .pdf was offline at time of writing)

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