The radical left-wing Podemos, junior partner in Spain's ruling coalition, is expected to name Ione Belarra as its leader Sunday after the departure of Pablo Iglesias, who founded the faction in 2014. Currently minister for social affairs, Belarra, 33, is the overwhelming favourite to take the helm of a party which emerged from the anti-austerity "Indignados" protest movement that occupied squares across Spain in 2011. Since Sunday, party.
The radical left-wing Podemos, junior partner in Spains ruling coalition, is expected to name Ione Belarra as its leader Sunday after the departure of Pablo Iglesias, who founded the faction in 2014. Currently minister for social affairs, Belarra, 33, is the overwhelming favourite to take the helm ..
Panic, pity and anger in Spain s Ceuta over migrant wave
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20/05/2021 - 18:46 Migrant minors eat apples while they wait to be tested for COVID-19 upon their arrival to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on May 19 Antonio Sempere AFP 4 min
Ceuta (Spain) (AFP)
When she first heard that thousands of people were flooding across the border from Morocco into Spain s Ceuta enclave, Gloria Nisrin admits she panicked. To be honest I was a bit scared because some people were saying they wanted to remove the (Spanish) settlers from Ceuta, said this 38-year-old resident of the tiny Spanish territory in North Africa that is also claimed by Morocco.
Spain’s government has called for “responsibility”, insisting health restrictions were still in place after weekend images showed people celebrating the state of emergency’s end without masks or social distancing.
The end of the state of emergency does not mean the end of restrictions. Far from it. The virus threat still exists,” Justice Minister Juan Carlos Campo wrote in an opinion piece in
El Pais daily.
“That’s why the authorities will continue to take action and the public must keep on behaving responsibly.”
After more than six months of curfews and a ban on travel between Spain’s 17 regions under a state of emergency which was imposed in late October, Spaniards were afforded new freedoms when the measure expired in the early hours of Sunday.