From typicallyspanish.com
Spain Papers Review - Tuesday May 6 2008
By h.b.
May 6, 2008 - 9:44 AM
Público has a photo of Acebes on an escalator and says that he is also leaving. The paper says he is copying Zaplana, and has told Mariano Rajoy that he is leaving the PP management.
El Mundo headlines that Acebes has also slammed the door shut – ‘I’ve told Rajoy not to count on me’. The paper says that he told Rajoy that he was about to tell the press of his decision to decline any post of responsibility in the party. He told the press that he had worked his socks off for our ideas. El Mundo shows Acebes smiling in the Congress building yesterday.
El Mundo says that previous PP interior minister, Jaime Mayor Oreja, has called on Aznar, Rato and Cascos, to intervene to solve the ‘crisis’ in the P.P.
El País notes that Mariano Rajoy has now lost the last remaining Aznar supporter with the departure of Acebes. It means that Rajoy himself is the last remaining member of the Aznar cabinet in the party management.
ABC takes the positive line and says that with his departure Acebes has left Rajoy a free hand to totally renovate the party. ABC notes that Ángel Acebes will however, for now, keep his seat in Ávila.
Público tells us that the man who thought he was going to be the P.P. Economics Minister, Manuel Pizarro, got a golden handshake of 20.8 million € when he left power company Endesa.
El Mundo has an interview with the man who discovered the human genome. Craig Venter tells the paper that they want to create the first form of artificial life this year.
El País has an article which says the labour advantages of having a university degree are fewer in Spain than elsewhere in the world, according to a report from the OECD. As a result the percentage of Spanish youngsters with a university degree is now constant at just over 30%, below the average of other advanced countries.
In International Stories, the tragic Nargis cyclone dominates. El Mundo says that there have been 10,000 deaths in Burma, and that the rice harvest has been ruined. The south of the country was battered by winds of upto 240 km/hour and suffered torrential rain.
El País has a front page photo of some of the damage which the paper says has destroyed 100,000 homes as well as the rice harvest.
Back in Spain,
El País notes that the ex Mayor of Andratx, Eugenio Hidalgo, has said that he did not know that his illegal villa was on rustic land.
The paper calls it the largest corruption scandal on the Balearic Islands.
ABC says that the Spanish motor industry has asked the Government for another Prever plan to help boost new car sales. That was the scheme where you were given a discount for handing in your old vehicle. The paper notes that petrol prices are now over 120 dollars a barrel.
El Mundo today covers the Eurovision Song Contest scandal and says that TVE is said to have purchased votes in 1968 to ensure that Massiel won for Spain.
And finally,
ABC reports that the Chairman of Real Madrid, Ramón Calderón, has said the side needs a grand star who can attract the spotlights of the world to turn to the Bernabéu.
Meanwhile both El Perdiódico and La Vanguardia published in Barcelona headline that Pep Guardiola will be the new Barça manager.