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Feijóo: “They are about to beatify Mr. Puente, I expected a little respect”

The Urda train accident has occupied a good part of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's rally in Valladolid, where he has attacked the PSOE for praising the gesture of former minister Óscar Puente's resignation as an act of political "dignity." “They are about to beatify Mr. Puente, I expected a little respect from a party that is more than 100 years old,” proclaimed the leader of the PP. "Dignity is not leaving because of the elections. Dignity would be having done it after Adamuz, having reviewed everything after that, having asked for forgiveness and not even that," he criticized. “Dignity is the best Spain that appears in the worst moments,” he added, highlighting the Civil Guard, National Police, firefighters and health workers involved in the incident. Also to the residents of Urda who got involved after the crash. “The PSOE thing is something else and they do not represent us,” he continued, to then attack the Government for the latest UCO investigations. This Ministry of Transportation first was corruption, then it was machismo, then it was incompetence and then arrogance. Now they tell us that we must appoint a provisional minister," he stressed.

Irene Montero calls to support the general strike: “On November 11 we have to fill the streets and we have to paralyze the country”

The Podemos candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Irene Montero, called this Saturday to support the housing strike called for next Wednesday. “On November 11 we have to fill the streets and we have to paralyze the country so that rents, food and energy go down,” defended the head of the list of the leftist party in his event with Gabriel Rufián in Madrid. In an intervention in which he also attacked Isabel Díaz Ayuso for having called the teachers who have stopped in recent weeks a “mafia”, also questioning the businessmen who raise prices and “the complicit governments that, when they could, have done nothing”, in reference to the coalition between PSOE and Sumar. “That is the great gap in society, not between right and left, but between above and below, between the 1% and the 99%. “They make us look the wrong way and not up.”

“The PSOE, if it can, will eat you. They tell you: vote useful, that is, vote for what you don't want. (…) Left is needed. In these elections there are three options and the one that serves to raise salaries is the plurinational republican alliance,” he said about his own ballot.

Montero has also referred to the corruption of the "bipartisan system", following the latest investigations by the UCO and the information that suggests that the PP offered one million euros to the former Transport advisor Koldo García in exchange for information against Sánchez, something that the popular party denies. “The two-party system is not bothered by corruption, it is bothered that it becomes known and can take away votes,” he said.

Rufián charges against Frente Amplio: “This was not about submitting to the PSOE by entering the PSOE”

Gabriel Rufián, head of the ERC list in the general elections of 29-N, began his intervention at the rally with Irene Montero in Madrid with attacks on the Frente Amplio and a demand for the Podemos ballot. “This was not going to replace Yolanda Díaz, it was not going to lead a space that already existed and whose name has been changed. This was not about submitting to the PSOE by joining the PSOE", he concluded. "I would like for this country to have a left-wing force that would defeat the PSOE, but for the moment I want a PSOE Government submitted to left-wing, sovereigntist forces. We have been much more patriotic people from BNG, Compromís, Bildu, Adelante Andalucía than some who call themselves convergent," he noted in another message to Junts, a direct adversary in Catalonia. "I wish all the luck in the world to everyone, to all the left," he added later, qualifying.

Rufián has defended, with simple messages, taxes on great wealth, on corporate profits, that each family have a house. “The left cannot steal,” he has reiterated in another of his maxims in these elections. “Facing the right in this country has a cost, but so does confronting the PSOE, and you know it perfectly,” he told Podemos.

The ERC spokesperson has also referred to the railway system as “failed” and has criticized that the high speed system has “forgotten the workers who have to get to work on time.” “We ask for a comprehensive review of the system because it is unsustainable and a massive investment,” he concluded.

Sánchez commits to protecting the right to abortion in the Constitution

“I am committed that we are going to protect the right to abort in the Spanish Constitution.” The President of the Government and PSOE candidate, Pedro Sánchez, made that commitment during a pre-campaign rally in Tarragona. This is a proposal that is difficult to comply with, since it requires 3/5 of the deputies and senators.

Sánchez has claimed women's right to vote and abortion. “The first has allowed them to decide about the future of their country and, the second, the right to decide about their own body,” he recalled. "Now that the songs of the PP and Vox are back to review abortion, dignified death and all those rights that we have won, I commit that we are going to protect it in the Spanish Constitution," he added.

"A simple majority is not enough for me. It is not enough to stop the Popular Party and Vox. We need a broad and congressional majority to continue the conquest of rights and freedoms," Sánchez asked. Abascal, who has continued to be a socialist, sees social spending as “superfluous spending.” “We are going to raise the interprofessional minimum wage this year, and the next, and the next, and every year that the left governs the country.

“The Pope of Rome has voted in the United States,” added the President of the Government. “I don't know what he votes for, but he does defend,” he added and then recalled his defense of immigrants.

Illa: “Tarragona is kilometer zero of the PP's surrender to Vox”

During the PSOE pre-campaign rally in Tarragona, the president of the Generalitat and first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, wanted to reflect the electoral future of the socialists on 29-N in what has happened in Brazil, Israel and the United States. “Nothing is written, we write the future,” he said, to express that the result was taken for granted there and that there has been an electoral overturn. “Votes beat the algorithm,” he added.

“Tarragona is kilometer zero of the PP's surrender to Vox,” added Illa, to remember that it is one of the provinces where those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have agreed to renounce running for the Senate and for Vox to do so alone. “On 29-N, the president of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández [who is from Tarragona], will vote for Vox,” said the first secretary of the PSC. “As if the Senate were not important. It is our territorial Chamber and they have turned it into a battering ram against the Government,” he said.

Illa has highlighted what has been done in health and housing in Catalonia. “We are not all the same,” he added, in a reference that also winks at former minister Óscar Puente. The Catalan leader has advocated before Sánchez for the regulation of the housing market despite criticism “from the lords of money” who defend the law of supply and demand. “The metro makes 100 centimeters for everyone,” he added.

Hereu invites us to mobilize “hope in the face of hate” and remembers that Sánchez is committed to coexistence

The Minister of Industry, Jordi Hereu, has asked the 2,000 supporters gathered in the sheds of the Port of Tarragona to get active ahead of 29-N. Using the metaphor of the towers, the former mayor has asked that people from different backgrounds come together to join together for a shared project. “The movement of hope has begun to move forward. It has been activated. And when he does it, he wins over hate,” he told him.

Hereu thanked Pedro Sánchez, among the public, for his commitment to coexistence. “He is the one who has said on the other side of the Mediterranean that the only way is peace. For this reason, Pedro, we will support you," the minister told him. "You have to be very brave to tell President Trump that the agreements will be fulfilled, but we will not spend 5% of our wealth on weapons." "You can't imagine the price he has had to pay at the family level for defending coexistence in Catalonia."

The minister recalled that Tarragona is one of the provinces where the PP renounces running for the Senate to let Vox run alone. And he has charged against the candidate of Santiago Abascal, Jordi de la Fuente, who must sit on the bench in July of next year to be tried for the assault on the El Masnou juvenile center (Barcelona), in July 2019.

Illa accuses the Ayuso Government of having “a lot of face” for benefiting from peripheral regions

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has stated that the government of the Community of Madrid, headed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has “a lot of face” because it claims to lower taxes, but it benefits from a capital effect and the prosperity of peripheral regions.

This was stated in an interview with El Nacional this Saturday when asked about the tax pressure in Catalonia with respect to Madrid or other territories.

In this sense, Illa has expressed that the Community of Madrid is not an exportable model: "You are not managing better; you are privatizing everything. You are benefiting from this effect. You are displacing the tax bases in Madrid and impoverishing the rest of the territories. This is not the model we want."

Regarding the general elections of November 29, Illa has said that his prediction is that there will continue to be a government headed by Pedro Sánchez due to the mobilization he sees in the citizens and because of what has happened recently in countries like Brazil, Israel or the United States, where the message has been that people want "peace, decency, public services, administrations that think about the entire citizenry and not about certain interest groups."

Regarding whether the resignation of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, after the train accident in Urda (Toledo) leaves Sánchez without a firewall, he said that Puente has done what he felt he had to do and there has been no other consideration: "This ennobles politics. An emblematic phrase with which he ended: 'not all of us are equal', his attitude reinforces it."

In relation to the possibility that Puente's warning about the operation of the Barcelona-Madrid AVE could cause fear of using this line, Illa has said that he is not worried, that there is now a reputational crisis with respect to high speed, because there have been two very relevant accidents in 10 months, but that the system is "safe", according to experts.

What needs to be done now, according to the president of the Generalitat, is to "invest deeply to update it", which is why he has asked that this be done, that above all security be preserved and that the service be as little affected as possible.

Regarding Sánchez, he said that he is a person who has experienced many episodes and that he has a high capacity for personal resilience, although on Monday, during his visit to Barcelona, ​​he did not see it affected: "No one, no political leader, remains indifferent when they see first-hand a tragedy of this type."

Regarding investments in Catalonia during the last 8 years, Illa has said that there is a path of improvement, but that if you look at the figures in absolute numbers, they have grown because the economy as a whole has grown.

“We proposed a structural mechanism to resolve this issue, which is the Investment Consortium, which did not receive the support of Junts per Cataluña and we are looking for a formula to put it into practice”, a mechanism that guarantees that those investments financed by the State in Catalonia are executed by a consortium in which the Generalitat is present.

Regarding the possibility of a PP-Vox government, Illa has said that “this is a scenario that will not occur”, and regarding the formation led by Santiago Abascal, he has said that what he wants is to standardize Spain, eliminate the self-government of Catalonia and “Spanishize Catalonia”, and has criticized that Junts says that it is in the middle.

"In the middle of what? Here there are two options: either to continue progressing or a regression. How can you be on the side of parties that have demonstrated 15 times against the amnesty law? That have actively worked so that Catalan is not official? With PP and Vox, which say they want to eliminate self-government? How can you be flirting with parties that say they want to eliminate public media in Catalonia?", he lamented.

Regarding the resignation of his Chief of Staff, Eduard Rivas, due to an investigation into alleged irregular contracts in Esparreguera (Barcelona), where he was mayor, Illa has said that he is a person “of a very high human category” and that he has nothing but words of gratitude for the work he has done.

“Everything that has occurred has been explained very clearly, and he has also explained the reasons for the resignation and with a degree of self-demand on the part of Mr. Rivas regarding how he understands the development of his functions, which is commendable,” he noted, and has reiterated that not everyone is the same.

Asked about the actions of the Mossos last weekend to avoid new riots linked to the Blocus phenomenon, about which the CUP assures that searches were carried out due to racial profiling, Illa stressed that it was “impeccable” and has conveyed his support and recognition to the Catalan police force.

Regarding the riots on October 24 in Barcelona, ​​which resulted in 130 arrests and several vandalized businesses, Illa has said that “whoever does it pays”, that they will come to know who is behind this and that, if they are minors, their parents will be held responsible.

Regarding whether he sees himself as a possible candidate to replace Sánchez at the head of the central government, Illa has said that the current president “still has a future in Spain, and quite a bit” and has predicted that on November 29 he will be president again.

"I am now very focused on Catalonia, I feel very honored to have this responsibility. This requires a lot of dedication, which I do with great pleasure, and my approach now is 100% in Catalonia," he concluded.