Juan Lobato made the decision to resign as general secretary of the Madrid PSOE on Tuesday night. State Treasury Technician, if he knows anything, it is figures, and the numbers had stopped proving him right. “He had practically no support left in the party,” summarize his trusted sources. The shock of his most faithful organic supports and the pressure that came to him from many of the general secretaries of key groups in his victory…
In recent times, disagreement with the leadership of the PSOE was not limited to Page and Lambán. Read With Lobato’s lesson, Ferraz tries to stop the rebellion of the critics of the "I will not die in silence"
US President-elect Donald Trump named retired general Keith Kellogg as Ukraine envoy, tasked with ending Russia’s invasion. Trump, pledging a swift resolution to the war, aims to mediate a ceasefire between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
A new page was turned in the Pelicot rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, with the end of three days of the prosecutions’ closing arguments against the 51 defendants, one of whom is still at large. Taking the floor one last time, the lead prosecutor, Laure Chabaud, attempted to “look to the future.” Calling on the defendants to stop hiding behind their “magic formula” – “I recognize the facts, not the intention” – she expressed…
She sees everything. Hitler’s too-black mustache, the missing centimeters on a barricade, an actor’s stumble. She hears everything. The creak of a pulley, the music starting too early, fatigue in the voices. From her seat in the middle of the stands, microphone in one hand and pen in the other, Ariane Mnouchkine observes every tiny detail that appears and happens on the stage of the Théâtre du Soleil. Nothing escapes her, neither in the detail…
The Administration has defeated the illusion. In Motril, the pro-Three Kings parade association, organizer of the arrival of their majesties to the town since 1971, has taken a step back. After 53 rides, she is leaving tired of “the increasing technical requirements and the associated administrative burden,” as she wrote in a statement. As Manuel Martín Muñoz, president of the entity for the last two decades, explains, they step aside due to the demands of…
The Madrid federation, seasoned in crisis, has among its members Sánchez, three ministers -López, Bolaños and Albares- and the Government-Congress nexus Read The great paradox of the PSM: maximum power in Moncloa and chronic convulsion, from Tamayazo to Lobato’s ‘whatsapps’
Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, including Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin, faced bomb threats and “swatting” this week, the transition team said Wednesday. Threats occurred Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Law enforcement ensured safety swiftly, according to spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Both Stefanik and Zeldin confirmed being targeted.
The Palestinian cause lost one of its most active defenders before international judicial bodies. Gilles Devers, a lawyer from Lyon who helped bring this issue before the International Criminal Court (ICC), died on November 26 at the age of 68, after a long battle with illness. His death came five days after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes…
The first time The World met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went by the name “Father Matthieu.” A year later, he was dressed in a hoodie, gray jeans and sneakers, his hair lightly tousled with gel and sporting stubble. At 39, he reclaimed his birth name, Matthieu Jasseron, after leaving the priesthood last summer. Just before our mid-November meeting at a Parisian…
David Sánchez in Badajoz on November 5.José Luis Real. (EFE)The defense of David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government investigated for alleged irregularities in his hiring by the Badajoz Provincial Council, interprets the recent UCO report on the case as an opportunity to settle it. Emilio Cortés pointed out tonight in Hour 25 from the SER that the investigation by the Civil Guard, on which the judge has relied to charge Sánchez, clears…
The Ethics and Guarantees Commission took just 24 hours to suspend the primaries in Castilla y León Read A PSOE activist denounces that he has been waiting for 17 months for a response from Ferraz to a complaint about the "insults" from a fellow member of the ranks: "It is unworthy"
“Between going to Congress to listen to Pedro Sánchez or going to Cope to attend Carlos Herrera’s interview with Víctor de Aldama, I chose the one who deserves the most credibility” Read Rosa Nostra’s petals fall off
Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants have begun a ceasefire in a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting. As a region on edge wonders whether it would hold, FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen welcomes Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme at Chatham House in London. 'At a certain point, a war must end with some political arrangement'
It’s hard to believe she’s only been out of power for three years. While no one expects Angela Merkel’s supporters to rally behind calls to “make Germany great again”, the excitement surrounding the release of her memoirs highlights a sense of nostalgia for a leader whose record-breaking tenure came to embody stability in a changing world. But what is Merkel’s true legacy? What's left of the German model? The Merkel years revisited
Displaced people living in Sudan’s North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer of hope is still vastly short of what’s needed. Also, Namibia heads into general elections, with the ruling party SWAPO facing stiffer than ever competition amid popular frustration over disparities. Plus we head to the Gambia, which plans to reduce plastic waste by 86 percent over the next 10 years.…
Rumours about the US returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine have been circulating since November 21, when The New York Times published an article citing several unnamed US officials who “suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union”. At this stage, these are baseless claims since Washington does not even have these nuclear weapons to begin with. We explain in this edition…
They had become a real threat. The six arrested last Friday in Ceuta, Ibiza and Madrid as alleged members of a terrorist cell linked to the Sahel branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) had an increasing determination to commit an action and had sought potential targets in their environment, according to sources close to the investigation. It was a “cohesive group” that had collected knives and cartridges, in addition to handling “very explicit” Islamic State…
Short, poorly paid working hours. Combine several schools if you want to complete the day. Contracts as leisure instructors. Uncertainty about whether the next course will have a contract. These are some of the situations and working conditions that those known as vigilancewho are educational support personnel who serve students with educational needs related to a disability or behavioral disorder. The complaints from this sector are recurring because their situation is not improving and this…
The situation left investigators stumped. One of the gardeners crowded into the plantation that had just been dismantled did not even know that people on the street had been wearing masks for months, because of Covid. He had been locked in that room for more than a year, with mattresses on the floor, one against the other, pots scattered on tables, bottles with yellow liquid, cardboard as a bed with duvets thrown on top. Pseudorooms…
This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez pointed directly – although without citing him – to Carlos Mazón (PP), president of the Generalitat Valenciana, as the person responsible for the erroneous decisions taken during the management of the tragedy of the dana in Valencia, which has claimed the lives of at least 122 people. The president has used a calm tone in his first intervention in Congress to report on this crisis, a month after it occurred, but…
The former general secretary of UGT in Andalusia, Francisco Fernández, and three other former senior officials of the union have been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50 million euros, respectively, as perpetrators of a continuing crime of document falsification in competition with a crime of subsidy fraud for the “conscious and fraudulent application of funds received specifically from subsidy for the implementation of training courses for unemployed and employed people…
Abascal accuses Sánchez of abandoning the Valencians “out of political calculation, that is, out of evil” The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has charged against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accusing him of “not alerting them due to incompetence” and “not helping them due to political calculation, that is, due to evil.” He has told a story of victims of the dana who “day after day, for eternal days” woke up without light,…
France announced Monday, November 25, a new campaign to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse, as the country reckons with a mass rape trial that has shocked the public. Equality Minister Salima Saa unveiled a raft of initiatives two days after tens of thousands of people staged new demonstrations in French cities against violence targeting women, where protesters denounced government actions as “window-dressing.” The case…
It was the last week of May. A bourgeois Parisian dinner party was being held near the Luxembourg Gardens. The evening’s hosts were entertaining three other couples. All were in their seventies and eighties, with the tanned complexions that mark the leisure time of a retired business class that remains proudly active. A tall, light-eyed redhead introduced herself, holding out her hand: “Aude de Thuin, entrepreneur.” This calling card is important to her. A high…
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