A march in memory of Maricarmen left the camp in Puerta del Sol this Thursday in the direction of her house, at number 46 Alcalde Sainz de Baranda Street. The Tenants Union has called for this “walk in memory” under the motto “See you forever, Maricarmen” and with one of its phrases: “Fight for what is yours.” During the day, dozens of people have gathered around the improvised altar that began to rise on Wednesday night at kilometer zero in Madrid. The death of the old woman has also marked the reactions of the parties: the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has harshly attacked the Government of Pedro Sánchez. "He believes he is capable of manipulating everything and manipulating everyone. But we are not going to allow the attempt at emotional manipulation of the Spanish people," he stated, without explicitly mentioning the deceased woman. In an electoral key, Podemos puts pressure on the Frente Amplio with the launch this Thursday of a website to hold open primaries on October 14 and 15. In parallel, the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has responded to doubts about his candidacy: “I want to represent Esquerra accompanied by other left-wing forces.”
The march begins in memory of Maricarmen
Hundreds of people left Puerta del Sol shortly after 8:00 p.m. in a march in memory of Maricarmen Abascal, who died 24 hours ago at the Gregorio Marañón hospital. The destination of the tribute is portal number 46 on Alcalde Sainz de Baranda Street, where the 87-year-old woman lived for seven decades, from where she was evicted two weeks ago and where she could not return.
Leading the walk is a wreath of orange flowers, the color of the Tenants' Union, with a white band that reads: “We will continue fighting for you, your Union loves you.” Just below there is a sheet of paper with another message: “He died in the act of service in defense of his dignity.” Many of the attendees walk with candles in their hands, which they will carry to the Maricarmen portal.
A march will travel through Madrid from the campsite in Sol to Maricarmen's house
Dozens of people have gathered around the improvised altar that began to be erected this Wednesday night at kilometer zero of Puerta del Sol to say goodbye to Maricarmen.
Flowers, candles and messages of remembrance cover the place from which the distances of the radial roads of Spain are measured.
At 8:00 p.m., a march in his memory will start from the statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree to his house, at number 46 Sainz de Baranda Street.
The Tenants Union has called for this “walk in memory” under the motto “See you forever, Maricarmen” and with one of its phrases: “Fight for what is yours.”
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The striking child workers pay tribute to Maricarmen in Puerta del Sol
By Israel Aguilar
The applause has resounded again in the Puerta del Sol camp. The platform of child workers does not forget Maricarmen Abascal. The educators in struggle have met, like every Thursday, to encourage the indefinite strike that began on April 7. Six months have passed, but before remembering it they have paid tribute to the woman who lit the spark of social protest in Spain.
“Maricarmen is everyone's home,” reads a sign surrounded by candles in the center of the crowd. Around, dozens of people in yellow t-shirts have high-fived each other before continuing with their agenda.
It happens a few minutes before the start of another tribute for Maricarmen. A group of the educators will join the group that will leave from Puerta del Sol towards the house where the old woman lived for seven decades until her eviction on September 23.
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Gamarra announces that the PP will limit the decree laws if Feijóo reaches La Moncloa
The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has announced that, if Alberto Núñez Feijóo governs, her party will limit the use of decree laws. In his opinion, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has made recurrent use of them during this legislature. “The royal decree law has been installed as a mechanism of normality and it is not,” he stated at the I Public Affairs Summit, held in Madrid. Gamarra has announced a reform of the functioning of Parliament to recover its legislative capacity.
The PP gives as an example of this use the housing decrees that the Council of Ministers approved again on Tuesday, after the Plenary of Congress overturned them, and that the Government will take to the Permanent Deputation for validation.
Gamarra has also defended a regulation of interest groups, with a “public, free and mandatory” registry and supervised by an independent authority. In addition, he has proposed reforming the regulations of Congress and the Senate to prevent the blocking of parliamentary initiatives, and that failure to comply with the obligation to present the Budgets has consequences. (Europa Press)
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Rufián responds to doubts about his candidacy: “I want to represent Esquerra accompanied by other left-wing forces”
Gabriel Rufián has published a message on “I want to represent Esquerra Republicana,” the spokesperson wrote in Congress. Rufián assures that he is trying "with minimal conditions" to face what is coming with guarantees, and "accompanied by other left-wing and anti-fascist forces because this cannot be won alone." "I will try until the end. And I hope ERC wants it too," he adds.
The spokesperson closes the message by assuring that he is not going to enter “into any soap opera” nor is he going to “cut off anyone no matter how much they lie and how much they leak.” The message comes after Rufián has shared several publications on networks about a possible ERC candidacy without him, and while the party leadership is preparing the stage for an alternative with Jordi Albert.
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Podemos puts pressure on the Frente Amplio and launches a website for open primaries from October 14 to 15
Podemos has taken another step to hold its primaries open to the entire left to choose a candidate for the general elections of 29-N, and that is the condition that it has placed on Frente Amplio parties for a unity candidacy, by publishing a specific website to organize the process: primaries.info
Thus, the condition of collecting 300 registered endorsements or endorsements from members of the parties that choose to participate in said primaries is stipulated, the option of registering a candidacy for the Government or to be part of the lists by constituencies to the Congress or the Senate and the use of the proportional Dowdall counting method that will be corrected a posteriori if necessary to apply the parity required by the current electoral legislation.
The website establishes a specific calendar that dates the registration of pre-candidacies from October 9 to 11. In turn, the census of those registered who want to vote for the candidate candidates will close at midnight on the 11th. Then, the guarantees required will have to be provided on October 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Likewise, the publication of the official lists will be on the 13th at 4 p.m. and voting will take place from 8 a.m. on October 14 to midnight on the 15th.
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Junqueras prepares the stage for a possible ERC candidacy without Rufián
Camilo S. Baquero
Last-minute movements in the process of preparing the Esquerra Republicana lists for 29-N indicate that the party is working with the hypothesis that Gabriel Rufián, current spokesperson in Congress, is not finally the candidate. The party's deputy spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, Isaac Albert, has taken a step forward to be part of the candidacy of the province of Barcelona, although not as number one in principle.
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Rufián shares messages on his networks about a possible ERC candidacy without him
Gabriel Rufián shared several messages this Thursday on X about the possibility of not being the ERC candidate on 29-N. One of them collects information from El Periódico according to which Rufián demands from ERC a series of minimum conditions to be a candidate again, at a time when pressure is growing within the party to replace him with Jordi Albert.
Rufián has also spread the message of an ERC voter who asks him to take the leap. This voter claims that he has supported him in all the elections, but that he no longer feels represented by him, and maintains that his departure would take a weight off both him and the party, where, according to this user, he has more and more opposition.
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An anti-fascist belt and a strong police force protect the camp for housing in Valencia in the face of the extreme right protest
“Long live the struggle of the working class,” chant those camped for housing in the Valencia City Hall square. The camp is currently protected by a strong police force and a belt of young people from anti-fascist groups. These young people have mobilized after far-right groups announced that they were going to protest and break up the camp.
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The ERC management prepares the stage for a candidacy without Rufián
Last-minute movements in the process of preparing the Esquerra Republicana lists for 29-N indicate that the party is working with the hypothesis that Gabriel Rufián, current spokesperson in Congress, is not finally the candidate. The party's deputy spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, Jordi Albert, has taken a step forward to be part of the candidacy of the province of Barcelona, although not as number one in principle.
Albert has officially informed the party of his intention to run on the lists representing Baix Llobregat, one of the most important federations of the Republicans. As El Periódico de Catalunya has anticipated, it is already collecting endorsements. The deputy speaker in the Parliament, who has the approval of the leadership chaired by Oriol Junqueras, is not fighting to head the list - something for which he can opt until this Sunday - but being already a possible candidate he opens a plan B if the spokesperson in Madrid does not take the step.
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The Tenants Union calls for demonstrations this afternoon in memory of Maricarmen: “She has been a light and she will be a lighthouse.”
By Sergio Aires
The spokesperson for the Tenants' Union, Valeria Racu, has called for demonstrations "in honor of Maricarmen" this afternoon at 8:00 p.m., in a march that will start from Puerta del Sol and end at the entrance to her house, at 46 Sainz de Baranda Street. Racu has also announced that this Friday, at 12:00 p.m., a minute of silence will be held together with the unions that will go on strike in honor of Maricarmen. Maricarmen in every work center.
For Racu, Maricarmen has joined “an endless list of avoidable deaths” that, in his opinion, are to blame: “The governments that allow it, the rentiers and the police and the Thursdays that execute.” All of this is part of a “capitalist system” that “puts the profit of a few before the rest.” For Racu, Maricarmen “has been a light and will be a lighthouse for the housing movement”, which is why the union spokesperson calls to “continue fighting”, as Maricarmen has always requested. For the union, the Government decrees are “insufficient” and the only way to avoid another case like this will be “to go on a general strike.”
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The Permanent Deputation of Congress will observe a minute of silence for Maricarmen
The Permanent Deputation of Congress, which will meet on Friday the 16th to debate the validation of two decree laws, will observe a minute of silence in memory of Maricarmen, who died at the age of 87 after being evicted two weeks ago, unlike other legislative chambers.
Parliamentary sources have confirmed that the body chaired by the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, will remember this woman at the beginning of the session. While Congress announces that it will respect him, the Permanent Deputation of the Senate, with a majority of the PP and where the PSOE had asked to remain silent in his memory, has not done so; Nor has the PP accepted it in the Madrid Assembly, although it has been accepted in the Cortes of Aragon. (Efe)
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The Valencia City Council suspends the mascletà of October 9 due to camping
The Valencia City Council has announced this Thursday that the October 9 mascletà will not be able to be held in the Town Hall square, where more than 1,500 people are camping out for the right to housing, due to "a decision of the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community." “The mascletà is suspended, because the Government Delegation has expressly said so,” said the Councilor for Citizen Security, Jesús Carbonell, who pointed out that the delegation's response to the City Council's request made express reference to the impossibility of carrying out the mascletà but omitted “whether the rest of the events can be carried out normally and with security guarantees.”
