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Elizabeth Line Delayed

It's been delayed, once again.

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Councillior Elections: The Race For The European Union Representant Starts

You've heard well, we're voting again, and this time is important to assist to the polling stations and vote.

If one day Spain dissapears because of a natural disaster or because of the end of the civilization, the rest of the humanity will remember us not as the country of jamón, tapas, sun, beach and tortilla. They'll remember us as the people that loved to vote. This year, we've voted 3 times. General, Authonomical and Local elections. Next year, we'll vote again for an important reason. Electing our new European Union representant.

But, who's our actual councillor? Well, it's D. Alfonso Rodríguez, and that has been the councillor since we entered the European Union, and was designated in 2015. The government, in cooperation with the other political parties, has decided to make this elections every 5 years. At this moment, you'll be confused and even worried about the candidate you have to vote, or even better, you just had decided that you won't vote. Let us tell you something: THAT DECISION IT'S A HUGE MISTAKE. YOU HAVE TO VOTE

How will this elections work? It's simple. Every vote counts as 1, and the candidate with the major number of votes will be our councillior for the next 5 years. So, finally, we see how the government has ended with the system that made some regions' votes had a major impact than the others. And, who can run? That's simple. Everyone can run for councillor elections, but, you need to get 20.000 signs to run for the councillor position. So, if you want to be our councillor and you don't believe in political parties, you might want to start searching people to sign.

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Lance Strollaudinho wins the Spanish GP as Fernández-Velásquez ends lasts

Strollaudinho celevrating its victory in the podium

And Strollaudinho won in Spain. Until the last lap, he fought with Fernando and Carlos for keeping that position, under, not only the race pressure and the other drivers', otherwise being under the pressure of every single Spanish fan that was there supporting their national drivers, except the one that ended last, Fernández-Velásquez.

In an interview an hour later for the Inquistan TV, Strollaudinho declared that he was feeling very happy and exhausted at the same time, and he didn't expect the victory because, as he said, "Fernando, Carlos and George had great strategies to overtake him and they were always an step ahead of him and its team".

Strollaudinho will remain with 25 and in the lead until the next Grand Prix. Another happy person is Nico Hulkenberg, that crossed the line in 11th place, but managed to get the fastest lap of the race and sums up 1 point to start scoring points. The F1 championship started very good. Let's see how will it end.

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INFANTA PILAR DIED: LAST NEWS FROM MADRID'S INFANTA SOFÍA HOSPITAL

The Royal Household official twitter account has confirmed the death of Doña Pilar at the age of 83 after being beated by a bowel cancer. The princess have been in the hospital for a week after feeling bad. As far as we know, the king Juan Carlos I has been there at the moment of the death. We're still waiting for a formal comunicate that would confirm the tweet from the Royal Household. More information soon will be provided.

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NEW TERM IN OFFICE STARTS WITH CHANGES ON THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT

After 2 months, we've a new government! We're right, today Mr. Aguilar has swore his charge of President in front of the king, and has designated the Spain's new Government. Many ministers will stay at their respective positions, but some are saying goodbye to their current seat, and no, they won't get another different seat. They're going off the government, at least, for 4 entire years. Even if they are leaving the government, they'll keep some benefits like if they were ministers. For example, they'll be payed with 3500€ (they were actually payed 7200€) and private security to protect them.

But, does this affect us? Technically, yes. Apart from what we're actually paying, we'll pay this new expenses. So, it's worth to start thinking on generating more money. No one knows what will the government do when every member goes away because a new party gains power, but one thing is clear. We will have to pay them all.

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SPAIN AND THE UNITED REICHS OF REITZMAG START TRANS-EUROPEAN TRAIN PROJECT.

This map shows the proposed routes all around Europe

ADIF, National Rail, the Royal Rail Transit and other Spanish Companies have started to search support for their new project. The trans-european train. It would be called Eurostar, and, more important, it would connect by train a whole of countries in Continental Europe. Czech Slavia has also joined the agreedment recently, and it's expected that more countries join it sooner or later. The new train it's also incluided on the Treaty of Victoria proposal. Antena 3 have had exclusive access to it:

ARTICLE FOUR. Development of Inter-European Transportation (Eurostar)
Section 1. Declaration of Supported Statements; Pursuant to the ARTICLE ONE of this agreement, a trans-European railway system will be built which will have the following specifications:
a) The trans-European railway system will be known as EuroStar.
b) The EuroStar will have routes through each signatory state.
c) The EuroStar will have stations on each signatory state.
d) The EuroStar may be connected to an existing national railway system if permitted.
Section 2. Declaration of Policies; This portion of the agreement hereby establishes the following policies that shall mandatorily be implemented within each Signatory State:
a) Construction of at least one station per signatory state.
b) Application of ARTICLE TWO of this agreement.
c) Unrestricted admission of non-signatory state nationals to the EuroStar ride given that ticket price shall be higher by 5% than the prices for signatory state nationals.

Recent analyses on destinations withouth making a train change would have said that, for example, you'll be able to reach 14 countries from Spain or 13 from Reitzmag without getting into 2 or more trains, which it's a very possitive thing. And what about project's management? Well, Spain keeps the direction of the project, but share the management with all the countries that enter ir, which means that it will be a common project.

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BBC NEWS - BREAKING - DONALD TUSK, ELECTED NEW COUNCILLOR OF SPAIN

The winner, Donald Tusk, have just thanked all the people that have voted him via Twitter

Spain has a new councillor. That's right, Donald Tusk has won the councillor elections and will be our councillor for the next 5 years, that means, until 2025. Tusk, via twitter, have said that "a new era starts for Spain and for Europe". Also, he has said that "together, we can make huge things, and we can build bridges, share all we love". Reactions from the other candidates has now arrived. Alfonso Rodríguez has wished "all the best" to Mr. Tusk and he also have said that "councillor job it's a very hard task for every person".

Iratxe García and Pablo Bustinduy has also wished all the best to Donald Tusk, but tehy also have said that "whenever the left parties of Spain reunite in one, they'll be able to defeat the tyranic government of Jesús Aguilar and company". Luis Garicano has thanked all the people who voted him, and also, he has added that "he's not happy about Tusk's victory, but at least, we will still be members of the EPA for another 5 years". Finally, Jorge Buxadé has said that "sooner or later, we will leave the European Union and its dictatorial political organizations".

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SPAIN... IN THE SOUTH? NOT ANYMORE

A Spanish Flag in Antequera

Since our beautiful and properous nation was born, we've always been "The Constitutional Monarchy Of Spain In The South". But that's finally over. The Congreso de los Diputados has just passed the constitutional change, which means that we're now called "The Kingdom Of Spain". Or, are we?

There is just a problem, and we can find it on the World Assembly. Sadly for us, our name can't be changed once we were born. So, we will have 2 names, one for the World Assembly, and another one for our loved European Union. But, what name do we have to apply for the EU treaties? Well, President Jesús Aguilar has just given an answer to this: "Providing that we're now officially called The Kingdom Of Spain, that will be the name that we will use in any treaty or international meeting." So, there you go. Now, we will have to welcome the tourists saying... "Welcome to the Kingdom of Spain!"

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AIRBUS WILL MAKE AN OFFER TO HAVE A FACTORY IN THE UNITED REICHS OF REITZMAG

The Airbus' Offices at Puerto Real (Cádiz)

After the order of 40 new planes for European Union Councillors (39 of them being donated to every councillor and 1 owned by the United Reichs Of Reitzmag), Airbus has showed its interest to have some factories in the URR. In the words of Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus, "The United Reichs of Reitzmag is becoming an interesting place to invest in, and also they are ordering lots of planes to Airbus. Building factories on Reitzmag would reduce the costs of sending the plane to Reitzmag, and airlines could have their planes sooner than they actually do."

Councillor Donald D. Tusk will transmit this to the URR authorities, when he arrives into Victoria City. Mr. Faury, after hearing about this, said: "Councillor Tusk is making a great work. He's promoting Spain in the European Union, and he's also promoting Spanish Companies all around Europe, allowing us to grow and create new jobs on other countries".

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REITZMATIC CIVIL WAR - SPAIN FULLY RESTRICTS TRAVELS TO / FROM REITZMAG AND WILL ONLY ACCEPT REFUGEES

An Iberia plane taking off from Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas Airport

After the Government announcement yesterday suggesting the cancelation of all trips to the United Reichs of Reitzmag, today it has been clear that Spain is restricting every single flight to and from Reitzmag. As Alfonso Dastis said this morning: "Spain is ready to attack if its national security is on risk." Later, he revealed the measures that the Government will take in the next few hours.

• Flights to / from the United Reichs of Reitzmag are cancelled and restricted
• Spain will accept any request from war refugees.
• Spain won't enter the war and will support the Reitzmatic Government and HM George I.

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16 YEARS FROM THE BLOODIEST TERRORIST ATTACK IN EUROPE

Isabel Díaz-Ayuso, President of the Comunidad de Madrid, and José Luis Martínez-Almeida,, mayor of Madrid, in the homage today at the Puerta del Sol

16 years ago, one of the darkest Spanish History pages was written. During the peak of Madrid rush hour on the morning of Thursday, 11th March 2004, ten explosions occurred aboard four commuter trains (cercanías). The date led to the popular abbreviation of the incident as "11-M". All the affected trains were traveling on the same line and in the same direction between Alcalá de Henares and the Atocha station in Madrid. All four trains had departed the Alcalá de Henares station between 07:01 and 07:14. The explosions took place between 07:37 and 07:40, as described below):

• Atocha Station (train number 21431) – Three bombs exploded. Based on the video recording from the station security system, the first bomb exploded at 07:37, and two others exploded within 4 seconds of each other at 07:38.
• El Pozo del Tío Raimundo Station (train number 21435) – At approximately 07:38, just as the train was starting to leave the station, two bombs exploded in different carriages.
• Santa Eugenia Station (train number 21713) – One bomb exploded at approximately 07:38.
• Calle Téllez (train number 17305) - Approximately 800 meters from Atocha Station – Four bombs exploded in different carriages of the train at approximately 07:39.

At 08:00, emergency relief workers began arriving at the scenes of the bombings. The police reported numerous victims and spoke of 50 wounded and several dead. By 08:30 the emergency ambulance service, SAMUR (Servicio de Asistencia Municipal de Urgencia y Rescate), had set up a field hospital at the Daoiz y Velarde sports facility. Bystanders and local residents helped relief workers, as hospitals were told to expect the arrival of many casualties. At 08:43, firefighters reported 15 dead at El Pozo. By 09:00, the police had confirmed the death of at least 30 people – 20 at El Pozo and about 10 in Santa Eugenia and Atocha. People combed the city's major hospitals in search of family members who they thought were aboard the trains. There were 193 confirmed dead victims, including two unborn children. 2.057 persons were injured, but survived the terrorist attacks.

One of the trains that was damaged by the explosions

Today, Madrid still remembers those who left us 16 years ago, and also those that hadn't had the chance to live their lifes and discover the world we are enjoying at every moment. But Spain learnt something, and a very important something. Spain learnt that terrorism is the worst thing we have in this world. To all that died and that were injured and to Ramón, this article goes for you.

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34 DIPLOMATS EVACUATED FROM THE UNITED REICHS OF REITZMAG

The Spanish Government has evacuated, with previous permission of the United Reichs of Reitzmag and the Inquistan forces to evacuate the 34 diplomats and their families in the Spanish Embassy at Reitzmag. The decision has been taken last night and at 6.00 this morning, a plane took off from Madrid going to Victoria City. The 34 diplomats and their families have arrived safely at Madrid, where they'll have some rest until the country is safe enough to return. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Alfonso Dastis, who scaped after a missile exploaded in the coasts of the URR, thanked both countries and wished "The best of luck to all those innocent people affected by this conflict." he also said that "peacefull and bloodless solutions must be found to give the conflict an end."

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PETE BUTTIGIEG, ELECTED AS NEW YORK'S PRESIDENT

The Donkey coalition made by Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and VOX has won the elections in New York. The independent candidate Pete Buttigieg has won the elections with a confortable majority over McCain, the candidate from the Elephants (a coalition made between the Partido Socialista Obrero Español and Unidas Podemos). It's sucessor, Barack Obama, that was elected as Minister sometime ago, congratulated him saying that "Pete will for sure be a great President fro the people of New York."

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JUAN IGNACIO ZOIDO, MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THERE'S NO RISK TO HAVE A COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN SPAIN

Zoido, in the interview

In an interview this morning with La 1, the Minister of Local Government said that "there's no risk to have a communist revolution in Spain. This is because Communism here has barely 5 or 6 seats on the parliament, represented by Unidas Podemos. If they were not together, they'll not get any seat for sure." Experts, like Pablo Simón, said that "what the Minister said is accurately correct. Spain is a very democratic country with lots of transparency, and this fact makes impossible to get any revolutions at the moment. Just look at the Catalonians. Since the new government arrived, they've been quiet because the Government has finally given them some more competences, and they are acting fairly as a Spanish Authonomous Community."

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CBC ESPAÑA ARRIVES TO SEE THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE UNITED REICHS OF REITZMAG

The Reitzmatic TV Channel "CBC" has now arrived into Spain. The decision was taken yesterday and has been made official today by the TV Channel President, in a live apperance at 12:00 CET. The Government has said that "the great relationship between Spain and the URR has made that some TV channels see Spain as their new place to expand, and we are pleased to welcome them all to our country. This does not only make money for them, it creates new workplaces and allows many families to get a better situation that thye currently have".

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SPAIN WILL SET A NEW EMBASSY IN FREMET

The possible building where the Spanish Embassy in Fremet could be

Spain increases the number of embassies around the European Union. Some people that prefer to be anonymus said that "in the next few days we could see a new Spanish Embassy in Fremet" This would increase to 4 the number of embassies in Europe. Alfonso Dastis, in the traditional press conference after the Minister's Council, said that "Spain will always have its arms open to recive new ambassador from other European Union countries, as our compromise is to upgrade and establish as many diplomatic relationships as possible, as we are very compromised with the common European Union project".

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SUSANA DÍAZ (PSOE) - THE TRIFARCHITO IS DAMAGING ANDALUCÍA

Susana Díaz, On Canal Sur Radio This Morning

Susana Díaz, Head of the Oppposition in Andalucía, said that the Trifarchito formed by the Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and VOX will damage Andalucía even more than they 3 said Partido Socialista Obrero Español did. She said that "when the Junta de Andalucía was managed by my party, and I was the President, we were doing extremly better than now. To pass any important law such as the Andalucía's budget for 2020 or any economical or social upgrade, they need VOX, a far-right party, to support them. Where the hell in Europe we see democratic parties like el Partido Popular or Ciudadanos asking for support to a far-right party like VOX? Nowhere. Andalucía needs to wake up from this nightmare and remember that my party, who has been in the government for 40 years until Juanma Moreno take the Presidency, has done a 1000 times better than this 2 years of centre-right coalition government".

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SPANISH DIPLOMATS GO BACK TO THE UNITED REICHS OF REITZMAG AS THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES THE END OF ALL THE EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES

The URR Spanish diplomats taking off from Antequera

Julia Otero: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Alfonso Dastis; and the Minister of Local Government, Juan Ignacio Zoido, have announced that the Spanish diplomats that were rescued from Reitzmag are coming back this night and the embassy will be reopened from tomorrow morning. Dastis refeared to this decision as "the end of the war in the URR and the management to get an agreedment". Juan Ignacio Zoido, Minister of Local Goverment, has announced that "risk has gone away and the extraordinary measures that we have taken are going to be removed this night from 0:00 CET."

JO: About the recognition of the new former state of Icholasen, Mr. Dastis said that "we are not going to recognise new Icholasen until a democratic process is held. At the moment, Queen Anastasia is the Icholasen's head of State for us. Still, we don't understand how did the United Reichs of Reitzmag recognised a communist uprise in Icholasen, even if they tried to push them off from their own country. It's a complete mess what is going on there, and we'll be expecting everything closely to be ready to take new measures if needed."

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ALBERTO GARZÓN (IU): ICHOLASEN IS TRUSTWORTHY WHILE REITZMAG HAS LOST ITS MIND

Today in El País we've interviewed Alberto Garzón, leader of IU (A coalition of Communists parties of Spain), PCE (Partido Comunista de España) and Vice-Secretary of Unidas Podemos, the far-left party leaded by Pablo Iglesias.

Journalist: What do you think about our Government?

Alberto Garzón: This oppresive government leaded by Mr. Jesús Aguilar is getting us to nowhere. At least, the Government has showed to Europe that in case of a huge European War, we're ready to stay neutral and isolate ourselves from the rest of Europe.

J: Have you heard about the kidnap of Bernie Sanders, from the USNR?

AG: I have. Our comrades from Icholasen have all the Spanish Communist Parties support, specially from Izquierda Unida and the Partido Comunista Español, those who I do lead. Icholasen it's a very trustworthy nation, while the United Reichs of Reitzmag has definetly lost its mind. How can you kidnap someone to get planes with the intention of bombing Inquista? That only happens on the movies where people lost their minds. We should start thinking on retiring our diplomats from there before some crazy terrorist kidnaps them.

J: Could a communist revolution take place in Spain?

AG: Sadly no. We aren't enough to have a communist revolution, but we could reach the Government if people realises that we, the communists, are the only hope that Europe actually has.