
Julián García Vargas, former Minister of Defense and Health during the Felipe González governments, died this Tuesday, remembered for reducing his military service to nine months.
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Julián García Vargas was Minister of Defense and Health in the governments of Felipe González.
This Tuesday, Julián García Vargas, the last Minister of Defense of the Government of Felipe González, died. García Vargas had been responsible for the reduction of mandatory military service to nine months, already in the last moments of the military, which disappeared in the following legislature, already with Aznar in power.
Previously, this economist and Treasury inspector had been Minister of Health. He succeeded Ernest Lluch, who years later would be assassinated by the terrorist group ETA.

The Council of Ministers approves a package of measures on housing after an in extremis negotiation between PSOE and Sumar, marked by differences over rents and social pressure after the eviction of an elderly woman.

Spanish cities such as Bilbao, Murcia and Malaga are registering camps against the housing crisis promoted by unions and citizen platforms, while the coalition government negotiates a new decree in extremis and the opposition rejects it.

The PSOE and Sumar are urgently negotiating the housing decree in La Moncloa, delaying the Council of Ministers, while protests and camps multiply in Spanish cities against the housing crisis and evictions.

The Government of Spain and Sumar are urgently negotiating a housing decree that will include rent regulation and protection against evictions, while camps and protests are taking place in Madrid, Malaga and Seville due to the housing crisis.

The Director General of the Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, reproached the Commissioner for Immigration and Borders, Julián Ávila, for not previously informing him of a report that linked Morocco to the massive entry of immigrants into Ceuta at the end of July, considering that it affected national security and the Government, in a context of internal tension after the anger of the Minister of the Interior.

Sixty days after the massive entry of people across the Ceuta border, Government delegate Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano made his resignation official, acknowledging for the first time that his institution was aware of the 'serious migration crisis' that was brewing. He explained that from the first moment they transmitted the situation to the central Executive, requested measures and reinforcements, and issued daily reports long before July 30, although he argued that their powers are limited. The resignation comes after the declassification of CNI documents that showed alerts prior to the massive assault on July 30, and after the resignation of his chief of staff Gonzalo Sanz due to incompatibility in his versions regarding the transmission of information.