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BREAKING - SUBMARINE MOUNT WITH TELLURIUM DISCOVERED SOUTH OF THE CANARY ISLANDS IN SPANISH WATERS - SPANISH ARMY DEPLOYS 2 FRIGATES IN ORDER TO AVOID FOREIGN INCURSIONS
The Cristobal Colón frigate, departing from Las Palmas de Gran CanariaA major surprise appeared in the offices of the Canarian President, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Spanish Ministers of Science, Innovation And 2030 Agenda and Agriculture, Food And Environment, Víctor Calvo Sotelo and Isabel García Tejerina. The research boat Hespérides, who was doing some research in the Strait of Adventuranza zone, was returning to the Canary Islands when all the radars started to detect a submarine mount. The Hespérides then discovered it was a submarine mount, which has Tellurium in it. It has been named Mount Tropic, and is in Spanish territorial waters as the Bambiche, Echo and the Paps.
After the news were received by both Canarian and Spanish Government, the Minister of Defence has ordered 2 frigates in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias to stay alert in case any incursion is detected. The Spanish Government will debate along with the Congress how to protect the zone, apart from doing some research and discovering what materials can be found there.
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INTERNAL AFFAIRS: POLLS - JUNCKER LEADS, KATRIN WEBBER STANDS SECOND
The European Commission elections are approaching and we have recieved the first polls, for Internal Affairs in this case. According to GAD3, the most prestigious polls-maker in Spain, Jean-Claude Juncker would win today with a huge majority and advantage from the second, exactly of 50 points. The incumbrent Commissioner is reaching huge amount of votes thanks to his popularity and the endorsement coming from the Partido Socialista, Ciudadanos and several nationalists and regionalists parties such as the PNV, Coalición Canaria or Teruel Existe. These parties think that it's better to get a Spanish candidate in the Commission than a foreigner, and that could be the reason why these endorsements are getting Juncker's votes up and up.
In second place, surprinsingly we find the Eastern Haanean candidate, Katrin Webber. Endorsed by Unidas Podemos, Webber is increasing its voters and popularity all around Spain, specially on Asturias, Portugalia, Grequia and El Rif, but not as many as Sophie is winning from those autonomous communities in her race for being Europe's newest Premier Commissioner. Running as an independent candidate while being in a close position to the PEL (Party of the European Left) really makes her lost votes in favour of John Oliver.
And finally, we have a tie between Atty. Edmund Winston and John Oliver. Winston, which his proposals are outrageous and his hate towards everything he hasn't made (specially towards Spain) awards him with being the most disliked candidate in Spain. His most close rival, John Oliver, might start overtake him if he doesn't perform a good debate and loses against everyone.
The elections will be an easy way for Juncker as of now, but the 2nd place will be a very hard fight between 3 candidates that will need to deploy all its arms to win the battle.
PREMIER - TECHNICAL TIE BETWEEN MERKEL AND COCX
Merkel and Coxc are really tied after the not so relevant camapign the European Progressive Alliance have done. Coxc, who has mostly the same message than Merkel, has come to Málaga and stayed close to the citizens, which made him approach to Merkel much more than ever. Still, he would be in second because of Senator Kirstin, who is stealing some votes to the Inimican candidate.
"Sophierce" would be getting all the Trympov voters which voted for him on the last election. Her affiliation to the Party of the European Left would help her as Unidas Podemos alredy endorsed her. Asturias would be where everyone supports her. Finally Trympov would get a 1% mostly coming from Ceuta, in which Merkel has lost some terrain and where, in the national view, VOX has gained more and more influence.
POPULARITY MAP
- Yellow: Merkel
- Blue: Coxc
- Red: Sophie
- Purple: Kirstin
- Green: Trympov
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THE NIGHTMARE IS GETTING BIGGER
The firefigters at night, near Almonaster la RealIt's considered to be the nightmare of this summer that will be soon leaving us. Some even call it hell for some videos that they have been able to see. But the truth is that the fire is getting bigger and bigger and it's uncontroled. 400 firefighters and 28 planes and helicopers from the Army and the IINFOCA service (the autonomical service to extiguish wild fires in Andalucía) are trying to control this fire that is growing more and more, and nothing stops it. The climatical conditions don't help too: The wind doesn't cease to be strong which helps the fire to expand all along the Sierra de Huelva. 3000 people have been evacuated and 10,000 hectares have burnt during the fire.
The Agriculture Councillor, María Crespo, has said the land that has been flattened by the fire has a really low ecological value. This words have been very unpopular between the Andalusian people, with some calling her stupid or saying she is not ready to manage everything. The Andalucía's President, Juanma Moreno, has said: "We need to let the profesionals work and we, the politicians, need to stay out of their work. We can come someday, as we are responsible of caring our autonomy, to visit them, show them your support and being informed with the most recent data thay have. But if we are not helping, we need to go back to our offices and follow the news there."
The Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) is ready to deploy more efectives if needed. Neighbouring autonomies like Escocia, Asturias and Portugalia have offered their help. Extremadura is also fighting 2 fires, which makes it unable to offer anything.
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BREAKING - AGUILAR DISCARDS ANY ARMY DEPLOYMENT IN THE COUNTRY'S STREETS
If you expected the Government to get the tanks, the navy and the whole Ejército del Aire out to the streets, then remain seated. President Jesús Aguilar has discarded any military intervention in the Congress this evening, as he has offered to give explanations on the rise of tensions between Spain and Reitzmag. "Ladies and gentlemen, our measures are more than enough to keep security in Spain." He said just after starting his speech on the Congreso. "Spain is a paceful nation, and it will show the European Union that it's not seek for conflict but for finding a way to solve this as soon as possible", he continued; "the army is not going to be deployed and will keep it's affairs in Inimicus and Nofoaga like if everything was fine. There's no need to be tense, no need to be alarmed. We are not under a possible war and Spain is not going to take war as a way to solve the conflict."
Pedro Sánchez, the head of the opposition, has offered his support to the Spanish Government in any way that his party could say: "I'm not the one that gets to agree with the Government on many things, but first is peace and the Government will always have full support of the PSOE to keep peace in Spain and pass as much measures as needed to avoid deploying the army and entering a war we don't want." Albert Rivera has also entered this position, but he has added something: "I believe that the Madrid Agreement and the Nofoagan Defence Service we are actually giving is a good way to cooperate, but we shall not turn crazy. That army is there to protect Inimicus and Spain, as Inimicus is defending us too. Let's not ruin this agreements".
The hard line was taken by both Unidas Podemos and VOX, extremists parties that have critiqued the Government. Pablo Iglesias has said thaat the Government must retire every single military personnel from Inimicus and Nofoaga and break those agreements now if we are a truly peaceful nation, while VOX's leaders, Santiago Abascal, has directly spoken to the President: Mr. Aguilar, the time to the next election is running and you are ruining who was our best ally, Reitzmag. Moreover, you've got 3 nations alongside you on your crusade against a country that has done nothing bad but being a pain in the neck to you. Stop this craziness and get the relations as they were before."
The Government remains calmed and waiting new answers. Meanwhile, in Huelva, the fire has been stabilied. Some goos news on a day that will be remembered as the day tensions started to raise. Let's hope this is for the best, for a mediation, for the end of a conflict Spain has never wanted to be involved on.
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BREAKING - JUNCKER WINS BY LANDSLIDE; MERKEL NEARLY TIES WITH COCX
Results have come out in Spain after a very intense day of voting. Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, both from the European Progressive Alliance, have won the elections. In the Premier Commissioner race, a 2nd competitor was just 0.1 points behind Merkel: Walter Cocx. He has been the surprise of this election: Dividing the EPA vote and attracting VOX voters for the fake sexist poster that was revealed by Kerstin. The margin between Merkel and Cocx was decided by a bunch of votes in Puerto Rico, which has decided the election. Cikarova is in 3rd with a 16.1% of the votes, 0.1 points over Kerstin, in 4th place. While Cikarova votes are just Unidas Podemos and Communists parties, Kerstin has attracted many PSOE voters that felt theirselves unrepresented plus the Catalonian independentists, which wanted to support the ELDR just to frustrate the Government. In last place, with a 1% of the votes, we find Trympov, which gained Ceuta but not for much, which made him have only a 1%.
In the Internal Affairs Commissioner race, the results have been clearer. Jean-Claude Juncker has been votes by mostly everyone, reaching an impressive 67% of the votes. In 2nd place we find Katrin Webber, that surprisingly has earned a 15% of the vote. And in last place we find Oliver, which was backed up by many VOX voters all around (and not in C euta like Trympov) and Winston, who won in Catalonia thanks to the Independentists support.
These elections might have come to an end, but Spain will have to vote again in 4 months. We'll see what happens when Juncker can't run again, which would happen if he won this election in Europe.
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BREAKING - SPANISH CITIZENS ARRIVE IN MADRID AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM EASTERN HAANE
Spanish citizens and their families have just arrived into the Torrejón de Ardoz airbase after being rescued by 2 Airbus A310. The Government, which sent the aircraft this afternoon, wanted to rescue everyone to not lose any Spanish Innocent life: "We seek for peace but also for our nationals lifes. We needed to rescue them and their families, which some of them are Haaneans but they keep their houses here. I'm proud of what the Government is doing and we need to continue on that way". Said Alfonso Dastis.
The rescued citizens have thanked the Government for their fast response: "I'm not a fan of this Government, but we need to recognise when they do things well. The rescue has been fast and now I know we can count with this Government when I'm on risk. Still, I won't vote for them as they aren't my best choice to vote". Said Juan, one of the rescued persons. In other news, the Congress has voted to pass sanctions on Eastern Haane for this Coup d'Etat and Civil War, joining Inimicus on these actions. The Congreso also voted a proposal from Podemos to reverse sanctions on the UNSR, which was refused by all the parties except Unidas Podemos.
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FIRST NOFOAGAN PASSENGERS WITH FREE MOVEMENT ARRIVE INTO LONDRES GATWICK AIRPORT
The recently signed Treaty of Port Beauharnais has started to work. From midnight, passengers coming from the Republic Nofoaga won't need any VISA or identification. The first passengers arrived this morning into the London Gatwick Airport, being very excited to be the first people that didn't need a VISA. The Londonian authorities, lead by the Prime Minister of the Autonomy, have welcomed all the passengers.
One of them has been interviewed by us: "We booked this trip 2 months ago after the Military Treaty, as we wanted to know the country that was protecting our island, our houses, our seas. When the treaty was signed and we saw that it would start to work today, we celebrated it. We couldn't believe that at the end, we won't need to wait for 10 minutes here in the airport until a permission was granted by the authorities. Now, I'm excited to visit the country. I will rent a car and see Londres and Madrid during my trip, but I'll need to come back, as there's lot to see here." Said the traveller. Today, the very first Spanish passengers that arrived into Nofoaga haven't needed a VISA. This could be the start of a common policy in terms of borders by the EU, or just for Spain. Welcome everyone, anyway.
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THE NEW SPANISH BUDGET RAISES SPEND ON HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
The Minister of Finances and Public Fuction, Cristóbal Montoro, will reveal the Spanish Budget for the next year tomorrow along with the Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos and the Congress President, Ana Pastor.The budget, which the Government will rveeal tomorrow but some details have come out, will be the first one to get the expenses and benefits in Emus instead of Euros, after the sign of the Treaty of Finisterre in Galicia.
The budget will raise the spend on healthcare, education and culture. In Healthcare, a major raise of the budget has been made to build an estrategic building in which health materials would be storaged. More hospitals will be build thank to this money by the Autonomous Communities. In Education, the Government will deliver an extra raise in order to modernize our system and get ready for the new educational reform coming next year and starting to work in September 2021. Finally, in Culture, the Government has decided to raise the spend as part of their culture programme.
Pedro Sánchez isn't happy enough with the budget, refearing to them as the margination of poor people and the non-empathic budget. Pablo Iglesias has said it's better to burn this papers and make a new one from scratch. Abascal meanwhile has said getting taxes low is great, but they would like to see more expense of defence, which has been raised. Ciudadanos has refeared to it as a good budget that they will support in exchange of some more benefits for the Spanish people the Government has forgotten about.
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2 COLD-CORE LOWS STRIKE BALEARES AND THE SOUTH OF SPAIN
Damaged made last night by the Cold-Core Low in BalearesIbiza won't be partying until Friday. 2 cold-core lows, one affecting the Balearic Islands and the other going over Catalonia and the Comunitat Valenciana are causing severe damages in houses and cars. Last night, some rocks feel down a mountain near to some houses, getting some rocks of over 100 kilograms to crash into the houses walls. In Catalonia, Castelldelfells has flod after 130l/m2 fell in just an hour.
The rains will remain in those areas until Thursday, when they leave towards the South of Europe and finally dissapearing before hitting the Southern European Continent. The neighbours will have to recover from this rains that, every year, floods their cities and houses and no one does nothing to avoid it. The wrong way of building the cities and the houses back in the Franco era is one of the reasons why always those villages flood.
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FERNANDO ALONSO, FORMULA 1 CHAMPION
Fernando Alonso celebrating his championship win after being 4th in InquistaThe Formula 1 Championship is over this season. During the whole season, we have seen 2 Grand Prix Cancelled, a replacement one in Reitzmag and a crazy race in Inquista in which the points value was multiplied by 2. Daniel Ricciardo took the win on Inquista, which allowed him to score 50 points. But if he was important, there was someone else being important too. The new world champion is Spanish, and it's called Fernando Alonso.
Carlos Sainz went in 2nd and Fernando needed to get some points to win. He crossed the line in P4 and his engineer told him: "Ok Fernando, P4, P4.", a message to which the driver suddenlty answered: "Get in there Sam! WE ARE THE CHAMPIOOOONS, WE ARE THE CHAMPIOOOOOOOOONS". The team boss, Zak Brown, entered the frequency to congrat Fernando: "Fernando, awesome job, awesome job. Bertín is really proud of you result. Carlos P2, we are also World Champions in Constructors. Gracias Fernando, gracias." The celebrations went on during the afternoon in the circuit, with Carlos Sainz on 2nd place in the standings.
Today, Oviedo will turn on red. A huge celebration is expected to happen this afternoon to celebrate Fernando's World Championship. The Marea Roja, that's how Fernando fans have called theirselves, will flood the city of Oviedo to celebrate with his favourite driver. Let's see if next year will happen the same thing.
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OPINION - JUNCKER, LEADING THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS ORCHESTRA AGAIN
Juncken't stop him. No one could in the last 2 elections. Jean-Claude Juncker is the man that the Europeans have voted to be their new Internal Affairs Commissioner on his second chance and last term before being forced to leave the office by term limits. He will lead the European Union Internal Affairs orchestra, but after being the most active Commissioner along with Reynels, he will now have a good aid on the office next to his. Angela Merkel from Fremet, who has also been elected as Premier Commissioner and will lead the European Union's orchestra.
The European Liberal Democrats, where are they? I feel bad for Sen. Kerstin, as she doesn't deserve such a defeat, but Winston, who believed he was the alternative has been passed by the Communist candidate, Katrin Webber and the populist candidate from MEGA, John Oliver. The hate and believeing he was campaigning for leading his country instead of the European Union have been crucial for his defeat. Mennrimiak abstained of voting, so it seems countries all around the European Liberal Democrats start to realise that they didn't make the right choice or they just don't like their own candidates too.
This Commission will be funny, with the European Progressive Alliance leading again and having 3 talented politicians as Merkel, Juncker and Reynels. Some will call this abuse or domination, but I will call it fair game. MEGA is growing more and more, which is a high risk for Europe. But at the moment, the European Union seems to be safe from them. Congrats EPA, congrats Jean-Claude. The orchestra leader is back on his office.
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JUNCKER, AGUILAR AND BRIDGES - PEACE HAS ARRIVED
A photo taken in front of the European Commission building with the 3 leadersEuropolis woke up after the late night party Juncker offered with his winning speech on the streets, but all looked like a normal Friday, when people go to their jobs and then they go partying because another week is over. But in the main park of Europolis things were going to be quite different than others Fridays, not because as you might have get to know, there is the common show or Councillors getting a break.
Simon Bridges arrived there and was left alone by his bodyguards. Then, Juncker arrived and both met. And finally, the Spanish President apeared. While Juncker stayed behind as a mediator, but letting the leaders to speak and just interfering on the necessary things, Aguilar and Bridges spoke about everything. The result? The peace between Spain and Reitzmag has arrived. Both shook hands and hugged eachother, while employees from both countries did the same. 2 countries united again, but will it be for long? The European Court of Justice needs to solve the ongoing case between Spain and Reitzmag, but Aguilar, in a statement to the Spanish Press, has said "he will not allow the relationship to turn bad again because of that".
Peace has arrived, Juncker has again used diplomacy (EUnews has been able to know that he was the one that suggested the Reitzmic Prime Minister to call the Spanish President) to solve conflicts and Europe smiles a quite a bit more than yesterday. Hux Stevens, for EUnews.
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OPINION ARTICLE - MENNRIMIAK, YOU'RE THE REAL LOSE OF TIME
The Mennrimian Prime Minister, Sauli NiniistoThe Spanish Government pretended to restore the relationship, but nor did the Mennrimian Government. The Prime Minister, disrespectful since he just exited the Mennrimian plane, complained about the Spanish President not breaking the Spanish Protocol. When you go to a country, you should know about how its diplomacy works, and not to expect the President to welcome you on the airport exposing its security, a term that in Mennrimiak seems not to exist. Before we get into the summit itself, we have been able to know that he allowed the President to get the Media blaming him for all he has done. Mr. Niniisto, in the kind words of an opinion writer, we don't need your permission to do this kind of things, we do it without any permission. And despite the Mennrimians restricting our freedoms and the freedom of press, despite your constant attacks against Spain, we will never shut up towards your actions.
The summit itself was a shame. The motorcade driver, Jorge, has told us about the motorcade conversation: "He told me to take it to Moncloa, when we are actually leaving the airport. He didn't want any conversation, he was extremely rude with my mates when returning back to Barajas. When he arrived at the airport, you imagined he came here with a list of things that had to be accomplished if you don't want him mad. He acts like the mafia, but worse".
When he arrived to Moncloa, he asked to see the Presidential Office, something any foreign leader isn't allowed to do according to the Spanish diplomatic protocols. AT least embassadors seem to be coming back, but here comes the best. According to the Mennrimian PM, we use the Nofoaga's protection to "Spain uses that protection treaty just to store military equipment close to Mennrimiak in case Reitzmag selected the Bloody option". Sauli, do you live in Mennrimiak or in Mars? Where the hell do you live in? Have you heard Aguilar say no war would happen? He has also asked to reduce the military presence in Nofoaga, which Aguilar answered with a no and telling him that those accusations are not true. But he kept his stubborn position, like a 3-year-old kid, and it was supposed to do that. The Government obviously has said nothing of his petitions would happen.
And finally, he asked to receive a cut of taxes in the Straits, and the GSSA and the ASMSA have given their veredicts. Mennrimiak won't be cut on taxes, but raised. A deputee from both the Gibraltar's and Cantabrian Governments submitted the proposal to raise Mennrimiak's taxes to 5%, and the GSSA, managed by the Gibraltar's Parliament, voted FOR it, and the ASMSA, managed by the Councillors responsible of the sea area, voted FOR too. He's right on something: This has made relations much worse, but at least we have to recognise something: It's his fault.
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THE GUARDIA CIVIL SEARCHES FOR A PANTHER IN GRANADA; NEW DOLMEN FOUND IN ANTEQUERA
The Guardia Civil is searching for a panther in Ventas de Huelma, a little village of around 350 people in the Andalusian region of Granada. Since Monday, people on the village is hearing the panther roar and some even have seen it. Yesterday, a Guardia Civil helicopter got to see the panther and now, the SEPRONA (nature unit of said police force) has brought a big cage to get the panther.
In other news, a dolmen has been found in La Peña de los Enamorados, Antequera. This dolmen, which would be elder than Menga, would explain lots of things about the peculiar orientation of Menga, which looks to the Peña de los Enamorados. The research will continue led by the Seville University Scientifics, which will start to investigate about this new discovery. The Councillor of Culture in Andalucía has said "this discovery will make the Sitio de los Dólmenes de Antequera, composed by la Peña de los Enamorados, El Torcal and los Dólemenes unique, and for sure we will apply for the Europe Heritage Site certificate".
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BREAKING - MELGAR WINS THE CASE AGAINST REITZMAG
"This court rules in favour of the CLAIMANT". That's how the Acting Chief Justice after elections ended has stated that the Spanish General Attorney, Julián Sánchez Melgar, had won the case against the Kingdom of Reitzmag in the European Court of Justice. The Minister of Justice, Rafael Catalá has said this is a "really fair result" and that he expected this from the very beggining, but you never know what can happen in the ECoJ.
Julián Sánchez Melgar arrived to Spain this morning after getting to know the veredict of the European Court of Justice Andreas Ekka and made a statement: "Despite fixing the relationship between both countries, I'm happy to have been the one that proposed to regulate the fair treatment between the different European Union member states." Melgar then took a taxi towards the Tribunal Supremo, where his office is located.
The Kingdom of Reitzmag will have to pay a fine of 500,000,000 € to the European Union and an additional 150,000,000 € to the Global Alliance Against Human Trafficking, and George I of Montreal, the King of Reitzmag, will have to pay 5,000,000 € for contempt of European Law pursuant to the facilitation of violation of European Law by an entity directly devolved and named above.
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SORAYA TAKES OVER THE PRESIDENT FUNCTIONS FOR 2 WEEKS
Jesús Aguilar has stteped down from the Government for 2 weeks as he has been father. That has been confirmed by the President himself, who has posted a tweet saying his 2nd daughter (4 in total) had just born. The baby, whose name is Isabel, it's ok and resting in the private residence of the President in Moncloa. This afternoon, Soraya has acceptted to take over the Government in a later for 2 weeks. In an interview days before, she said the following things about the current Government:
"I think we are doing a great job with the new laws and regulations and slowly turning into a point of reference for the European Union at the International Stage. During the next 2 weeks we will still be coordinated by the President, but officially, I'l be the one who would be leading the Government. But I think no one will realise as it will be the same thing." The other politicians have congratulated Aguilar and his family, but they have said they won't stop putting preasure over the Government.
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NO-FLY ZONE OVER EASTERN HAANE - SPANISH EUROFIGHTERS START THEIR TASK
The Spanish Eurofighters are ready to fly. The Spanish Air Force has posted a picture on its Instagram of one of the Eurofighters flying over Eastern Haane. The No-Fly Zone enforced by the 4 Assembled Powers over Eastern Haane started to have effect at 14:00 CEST, time when the other operations commanded in Rota (where many assets have been arriving in the last days) had started.
Antena 3 has got to interview María Dolores de Cospedal, Minister of Defence. Asked by the possibility of instaurating the "Estado de Sitio", one of the 3 exceptional situations the Spanish Constitutions has and that would give all the power to the President and the Military, she has said: "We aren't applying the Estado de Sitio unless someone tries to invade us. We are safe and the 4 Assembled Powers are working for a better Europe together. This No-Fly Zone's purpose is to accomplish the European Union instructions and the proposed intervention motion, and trying to avoid as much as possible imperialism and war crimes, which have taken place in Eastern Haane thanks to Reitzmag and which has been discovered by several Councillors. We hope an explanation is given to all the European Union as soon as possible."
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BREAKING NEWS - SPANISH AND INQUISTAN ATLANTIS EXPEDITION FINDS THE LOST CITY IN FRONT OF ZAHARA DE LOS ATUNES (CÁDIZ)
One of the photos taken by a member of the crew"Atlantis has been found today by both, Inquistan and Spanish crew members, leaded by Juan-Bernardo Fernández Velázquez and the Spanish Minister of Science, Innovation and 2030 Agenda, Víctor Calvo-Sotelo", has issued the Minister of Culture this evening on the improvised event that has taken place between Inquistans and Spanish in Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz. The Inquistan and Spanish flag have been placed in Atlantis, which traffic over the crater where it has been found will be regulated by a Government restriction or vigilance via radar.
The Minister of Science has thanked El Capitán for his co-operation and promised "more research in the next months to come". At the moment, both Governments will research together and will try to figure out what happened to get that city sank under a crater. Whatever it is, it could make a change to the European and Spanish History.
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DÍA DE LA FIESTA NACIONAL
The Día de la Fiesta Nacional (mostly known as Día de la Hispanidad) has arrived, which also means that the military parade and all the protocolary acts have taken place as usual in the Paseo de la Castellana. King Felipe VI, along with Queen Leticia, the Princess of Asturias, Leonor and Princess Sofía have presided over the event, which has had some interesting anecdotes.
Aguilar is Back:
The Spanish President Jesús Aguilar is back after becoming father for a 4th time. He arrived before King Felipe VI, and welcomed him to the Paseo de la Castellana. We have seen him singing "La Muerte no es el final" for the first time, something unusual in the Prime Ministers, but also the Minister of Defence, María Dolores de Cospedal, has sung this song in honour of those who died fighting for the Kingdom.
Donald Tusk was also there, Jean-Claude Juncker wasn't:
The Spanish Councillor to the European Union, Donald Tusk was also on the Parade. Some even expected the Internal Affairs Commissioner, Jean-Claude Juncker, to show up on the military parade, but according to some information given by the usual Royal Household's journalists, he declined to assist "in order to accomplish with his duties as Commissioner and keep the neutrality he must have during his terms."
United Again:
Quim Torra and Íñigo Urkullu attended for the first time in many years to the Military Parade in Madrid. The Catalan President was wearing the more than usual yellow ribbon to ask for the Freedom of the Catalan Politicians, despite accepting the sentence about the Procés. He is also expected to be unabled by the Tribunal Supremo to lead the Catalonian Government, which could mean new elections would take place in Catalonia.
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AGUILAR CONTINUES LOSING SEATS AFTER THE GÜRTEL
Jesús Aguilar keeps losing seats after the Gürtel sentence coming out this morning from the Tribunal Supremo. On the sentence, the Partido Popular is accused of benefiting itself from the corruption case. Also, the "Caso Kitchen", which revealed that the Local Government Minister ordered the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia to delete 'as many info as possible' about the corruption in the Partido Popular. The President, asked by Pedro Sánchez on the Congress this morning, said: "When I first got to lead my party Mr. Sánchez, I said sorry because of every single corruption scandal, but you have never been consequent about the corruption scandals of your party in Andalucía."
The poll reveals the Partido Popular would lose 33 seats, getting just 143 seats in the next election (142 if we separate the one coming from Foro Asturias). Meanwhile, the Partido Socialista Obrero Español with Pedro Sánchez leading it would go over 100 seats, being awarded with 101 seats in total. VOX, the far-right party, would achieve 31 seats and Ciudadanos, with Albert Rivera, would only get 24. Podemos is decreasing every week, and the Pablo Iglesias' party would just get 19 seats. This morning, he called the President: "A dirty, corrupt, and racist fascist who doesn't know how to sum 2 and 2", with the President answering Iglesias saying: "I'm not the one that has links with dictators all around the world. Also Mr. Iglesias, I'm always open to negotiate, so if you ever need me, you are invited to come to my office".
About minor parties, more appear to gain influence in Spain. The Partit Nacionalista de Catalunya, Teruel Existe, Partido Puertorriqueño, Bloque Nacionalista Galego or Compromís are examples of this new time for regionalist politics. Esquerra Republicana and Junts, both independentist parties lose lots of seats, staying in the Parliament with just 4 seats each. The Nacionalist parties (PNV and PnC) get 6 seats and 5 seats respectively, while regionalist parties get between 2 and 1 seats each. Bildu, the former party which is leaded by an old ETA leader would lose influence and getting 3 seats, while the anarchist Catalan party (CUP) would gain 1.
With a new Election Law pending (which would mean inmediate elections) and a Congress that could reach 450 seats to enlarge representation of the special status autonomous communities, this poll may change or not, but something is really clear: No one knows what will happen in the next election.
Poll Full Results
Poll made by GAD3PP - 143
PSOE - 101
VOX - 31
C's - 24
UP - 19
PNV - 6
PnC - 5
ERC - 4
Junts - 4
EHBILDU - 3
NA+ - 2
CC - 1
NC - 1
TE - 1
Compromís - 1
PRC - 1
CUP - 1
BNG - 1
PPR - 1
The Kingdom of Spain