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10:27 a.m.
Almeida ignores Reyes Maroto as a PSOE candidate for the Madrid City Council: “He comes by discarding”
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, pointed out this Monday that the appointment of the Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, as the PSOE candidate for the Madrid City Council has been all “a vaudeville”. “Maroto comes by discarding”, the Madrid councilor has sentenced in La Hora de la 1 of TVE, previously recalling the endless names that have been leaking these days as possible rivals of his for the next municipal elections.
For this reason, he believes that the message transmitted by Pedro Sánchez is that Madrid has “quite lost” him, because, in his opinion, all the other names that Sánchez had sounded out – the poet Luis García Montero; or the ministers Félix Bolaños; Fernando Grande-Marlaska; o Margarita Robles– “With all due respect to Reyes Maroto, they have much more political weight and notoriety than the candidate finally appointed.” “The problem is that everyone else told him no,” he said.
“All Madrid residents are aware of the vaudeville that the Socialist Party candidate process in Madrid has turned into, to such an extent that it seemed credible to us that Jorge Javier Vázquez [presentador de Sálvame] was a PSOE candidate for the city of Madrid”, added Almeida.
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Minister Reyes Maroto will be the PSOE candidate for Madrid City Council
10:17 a.m.
Bolaños, on the candidacy of Reyes Maroto for mayor of Madrid: “The city needs a mayor who takes care of the people of Madrid and not the commission agents”
Félix Bolaños celebrated the announcement of the candidacy of the current Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, for the PSOE for mayor of Madrid, although, he qualified, “there has to be a primary process” afterwards. “This is very good news for the people of Madrid,” he said in an interview on Cadena SER.
The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory has assured that what the capital needs is “a mayoress who takes care of the people of Madrid and not the commission agents.” “I have no doubt that she will have a lot of support among the militants,” he said. “I think she will be an extraordinary candidate to propose a progressive alternative,” he has concluded.
Minister Reyes Maroto will be the PSOE candidate for Madrid City Council
10:12 a.m.
The Government opens to negotiate the reform of the crime of embezzlement with ERC
The Government has opened up to reforming the crime of embezzlement with ERC. “We will study it, as will happen with any amendment presented by the groups,” said the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory in an interview on Cadena SER’s Hoy por Hoy, responding to the question of whether they are willing to negotiate it, after Pere Aragonès has confirmed that he is going to request this modification.
Félix Bolaños has assured that for the moment they have not received any proposal, so it is “difficult” for him to comment “on anything.” “ERC has not sent us the proposal and we are not talking about it”, he indicated, adding that with the reform of the crime of sedition what they want is that “our Penal Code be reasonable”.
In the interview, Bolaños insisted that the reform will now face the parliamentary process and that in order to move forward it needs 176 deputies, “a very broad consensus”: “The reform and the process is carried out with parliamentary groups that are legitimate, as we are others,” he stressed. The head of the Presidency has stressed that this negotiation was not carried out in parallel to that of the Budgets nor was it dealt with during the negotiations with the PP on the Judiciary.
Asked about the precipitation on the part of ERC in its change of position, he has defended that “in recent days” they have shown themselves willing to “Europeanise”. “We have reached that point of balance and see the parliamentary process,” he has settled.
