Zapatero’s judicial situationthe new transfers of the Government to ERC in Catalonia and the United States movement against Raúl Castro center a day marked by political pressure, territorial negotiations and international tension. This is how Carlos Alsina summarizes the main news of the day.
The PSOE trembles with Zapatero
They have already passed forty-eight hours since Zapatero said that he was going to attend to the media and for now he has not had to find time. Knowing the order, many socialists, including several ministers, are waiting for its explanations to know how to act.
If the first day the thing fell for obvious reasons lawfarenow the PSOE does not go beyond respecting the presumption of innocence, remembering what Zapatero did during his time as president and not going into what he did later, which is what he is accused of. Yesterday Pedro Sanchez He did not move one bit in his speech of support, all his support, for the former president.
Both spoke on Tuesday afternoon but neither one nor the other has explained what they talked about. Now, the boss is in charge, and the ministers are all rushing to show their support for Zapatero and claim the presumption of innocence. This is what differentiates the reaction of the Government and the leadership of the PSOE from the one they had with Ábalos or Santos Cerdán. For them there was no presumption of innocence.
Pedro Sánchez took advantage of the situation to repeat yesterday that will exhaust the legislature and that you will need at least another one. Or two others, because he spoke of eight years at first. The electoral call depends solely on him and it is clear for now that there will be no elections until the summer of 2027.
Nor does it seem that a motion of censure can succeed no matter how much the PP is repeatedly asked, which does nothing other than refer to its partners. Especially one, the PNV.
Yesterday his spokesman Vaquero repeated again, swimming between two waters, that the situation is very serious but that we are only at the beginning of the instruction. For now, the partners are distancing themselves and making an effort to make it clear because, as they themselves maintain, this car—now that they have read it to you—is very solid and looks very bad, as he said. Ione Belarraalso pointing out the Government as a necessary party.
New transfers to ERC for the Catalan budgets
With Zapatero, the Government’s new transfer to Esquerra in exchange for supporting Salvador Illa’s budgets is going unnoticed. The bilateral Government-State gave approval in less than an hour to the demands of Oriol Junqueras.
Among the agreed measures are: increase of the Mossos staff by 3,000 agents at the expense of the State, teaching Catalan to state officials in Catalonia, more investment in Rodalíes and the AP-7, financing for the new orbital train and a new consortium for the Barcelona Free Trade Zone that would no longer be controlled by the State.
After committing these transfers, Minister Ángel Víctor Torres has tried to justify that we are not facing a loss of State presence in Catalonia but rather the best way to solve problems. Using this argument, what is not understood is why this is done only with Catalonia and not with other autonomous communities. If they had committed to this at a rally during the Andalusian campaign to do the same there, possibly the PSOE would have improved its result.
Trump and the offensive against Raúl Castro
Trump builds the alibi to intervene militarily in Cuba. His prosecutor’s office accuses Raúl Castro of shooting down two small planes thirty years ago to justify his removal from Havana and trial in the United States, as was done with Maduro. Within the Castro regime, the competition would already be underway to see who pleases the White House the most and takes over the role of supervised president, a kind of “Delcy Cuban style”.
The events for which the US Prosecutor’s Office accuses Raúl Castro occurred in 1996. He was then Fidel’s brother and Minister of Defense. He was 64 years old, thirty younger than now, and he would have authorized the downing of two small planes in which four members of the anti-Castro organization Brothers to the Rescue died.
The US Prosecutor’s Office now justifies that it has been proven that the aircraft were in international waters. The political explanation, according to this interpretation, would have to be sought in the strategy that Trump likes the most to weaken the Cuban regime.
Castro could suffer a fate similar to that attributed to Nicolás Maduro, accused in 2020 of leading a narco-terrorist organization and later transferred to a prison in Brooklyn, while the United States promotes a new political architecture in Venezuela.
