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Flamenco In Progress- Torrox: Nov 17th, 8pm
Teatro Municipal Villa de Torrox
Show by Rosario Toledo, “Operación Cuarteto”
More info and tickets: https://www.mientrada.net/evento/rosario-toledo-operacion-cuarteto/ & Video Link
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Concert- Gershwin in Blue: Friday 17 & Saturday 18 November at 8pm at Soho Theatre, Malaga.
The Larios Pop del Soho orchestra (an Antonio Banderas project) perform some of George Gershwin’s best-loved tunes. Young (and very talented) pianist Marcos Castilla will play solos in the programme, which includes An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue and tunes from Porgy and Bess.
Tickets cost from €20 and are available online (note that you buy them via El Corte Ingles) and at the theatre ticket office in Calle Cordoba 13, Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 2pm and 5.30 to 8.30pm.
Info & tix: https://www.elcorteingles.es/entradas/channels/teatro-soho/performance/performance-0000088x60000088w50000085i4-teatrodelsoho-channel
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We Want More- Tribute to Gary Moore: Fri, 17Nov 10pm
Rock’n’Rolla Underground Club, C. Gran Capitán, 25, 18002 Granada. €8adv/€10door. Info & tix: https://tienda.nipopnijazz.com/tienda/concierto-we-want-more-tributo-a-gary-moore-17-11-23/ & Video Link
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Christmas lights in Malaga: Friday 24 November is the switch-on day for the Christmas lights in Malaga city centre, at 7pm. Calle Larios will showcase last year’s lovely angels (as the picture above shows). Festive music and light and sound shows take place three times every evening – exact timetable to be confirmed.
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News Note: There is huge turmoil on the political front, with the investiture announced for the next 2 days. It dominates all the Spanish news media outlets. So today’s issue is heavy on the election news. I’ve tried to summarize/compact the new info as much as possible, however, several curious new developments in the past 24 hours are significant, and worth mentioning. -Ed.
SPAIN
Retirement update: The retirement age is delayed to 66 years and six months from January. However, this regulation also establishes changes in the contribution time scales, making access to retirement not only depend on age, but also on the time that one has been contributing throughout one’s working life. Full article in English, with new contribution charts: https://samagame.com/en/latest/in-2024-spaniards-will-add-one-more-year-to-retire-66-are-the-new-65/
SPANISH ELECTIONS
Pedro Sánchez’s investiture debate will be this Wednesday and Thursday in Congress: {Translation, summary}
– The president of Congress, the socialist Francina Armengol, has finally set the date of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, who, if there are no surprises, will be re-elected President of the Government this Thursday, November 16. The debate will begin the day before, on Wednesday, November 15 at noon, and it is expected that the PSOE candidate will be elected in the first vote because he claims to exceed the absolute majority initially required by three votes: he has 179 yeses.
– With the votes of PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV, BNG and Canary Coalition, Sánchez is guaranteed to be elected president in the first vote, so a second attempt will not be necessary on Saturday, when he would only need more yeses than noes – not absolute majority.
– {However, if the amnesty proposal is blocked by the supreme court before the investiture vote, where a majority of the judges have objected to the amnesty “process”, then Sanchez could lose the votes of the parties who only offered their votes if the amnesty is passed. On the other hand, if Sanchez is elected, the opposition parties have already called for a nation-wide general strike. -Ed.} Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/armengol-fija-investidura-sanchez-miercoles-jueves-noviembre-20231113113240-nt.html
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The Senate reform that will delay the amnesty takes another step forward and will be definitively approved today: {Translation, summary}
– On Monday, the Senate Rules Committee endorsed the reform proposed by the PP to delay the processing of the amnesty bill in the Upper House by up to two months, and it will be definitively approved in Tuesday’s plenary session. In addition, the PP has included a section to force ministers to appear when requested to do so by parliamentary groups.
– Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party decided to speed up the processing of this reform of the Rules of Procedure as much as possible, so that last Wednesday it was taken into consideration and this Monday the Rules Committee endorsed it so that it can be voted on definitively on Tuesday, in anticipation of the amnesty law coming out of Congress.
– Specifically, the PP has presented this reform of the Senate Regulations to give the Bureau of the Upper House, where they have an absolute majority, the power to decide whether or not to apply the urgency procedure to bills, as will foreseeably be the case with the amnesty law.
Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-reforma-senado-dilatara-amnistia-da-paso-mas-tramitacion-aprobara-definitivamente-manana-20231113130726.html
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Vox will file a complaint against Sánchez for the amnesty and will request the suspension of the investiture debate as a precautionary measure: {Translation}
– Vox will appeal to the Supreme Court to try to prevent the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The leader of the third political force, Santiago Abascal, announced on Monday that his party will file a lawsuit on Tuesday against the acting Prime Minister and will ask for the suspension of the investiture debate, scheduled for 15 and 16 November, as a precautionary measure.
– Abascal has advanced in a press conference that Vox will sue Sánchez before the Supreme Court “for the commission of three crimes”, without specifying which ones. The party invites to wait until Tuesday to know the details of the complaint. What the leader of the party has advanced is that Vox will request as a precautionary measure the suspension of the investiture debate, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
– Vox already warned a week ago that it would sue Sánchez for bribery as soon as the Congress admitted the amnesty law, for promoting a law, in its opinion, unconstitutional. The third political force seems to have advanced its plans in view of the announcement of the date for the investiture, which was announced on Monday by the president of Congress, Francina Armengol.
– This Tuesday’s complaint will not be the first that Vox has filed against the president of the Government. In December 2022 they already denounced him for “conspiracy for rebellion”, an appeal that was not admitted for processing at the time, but that Abascal’s party extended last month. “We are not going to stop”, Abascal has promised, who also announced last week that Vox will sue the members of the Bureau of Congress and the Senate who vote in favour of admitting the amnesty law for processing.
– The paralysis of the amnesty in the Senate is not the only demand that Vox is making of the PP. Abascal’s party has also reiterated its request to its partners in government in five autonomous communities to call for “institutional mobilisations” from the regional and municipal governments where “there is no majority for the coup”. Vox already put this proposal on the table last Tuesday, but they now stress that its materialisation is “urgent”, given the call for Sánchez’s investiture debate. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5189717/0/vox-se-querellara-contra-sanchez-por-amnistia-pedira-como-medida-cautelar-suspension-debate-investidura/
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Sánchez ignores all the amnesty limits he previously claimed and grants Junts a total amnesty- despite this, in a surprise move, his partners then fail to sign the amnesty bill at the last minute: {Translation, summary}
– The transparency that the PSOE boasts of in its agreements, which it has been trumpeting in recent weeks as an inseparable mantra after every concession made public to achieve the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, was elevated as never before on D-Day. On the day chosen to register the amnesty agreed with the Catalan pro-independence supporters it is now known that the bill finally only bore the signature of the socialists in a clandestine registration, carried out by an anonymous face of the party just three minutes before the closing of the Congress premises. It took the PSOE a long time to confirm this and when it did, the only signature on the document was that of Patxi López, the Socialist spokesperson in Congress. Nothing was known about the reason that led their partners not to accompany them on the trip.
– His explanations did not hide the loneliness of the PSOE at the moment of truth and hinted at some last-minute disagreements, despite the fact that the minister reiterated that the 178 votes in favour (all those of his investiture partners except for Coalición Canaria) were assured. ERC sources acknowledged that they were still “analysing the text” and that “some technical-legal details” remained to be resolved “in the coming hours/days”, reports Daniel Tercero. From Junts, the official version said that their signature was “not necessary”, while in Sumar they preferred not to do so as not all the parties had signed.
– The fact is that the unity was not such and that the proposal, whatever happens with it, is now an initiative promoted only by the PSOE and that, far from generating concord, as Bolaños summarised, it continued to create discrepancies among citizens. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/psoe-difunde-ley-amnistia-espera-registrar-hoy-20231113133024-nt.html
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Breaking News (21:59, 13/11/23)- The Justice Committee of the European Parliament has admited Vox’s request to hold an expedited debate on the amnesty law: {DigameXtra}
– If the EU rules against the amnesty law, Sanchez would not be able to keep his end of the agreements he made to gain the support he required to pass the investiture. How the EU enforces such a ruling remains to be seen. Perhaps this is why only the PSOE signed the amnesty bill submission, and all other groups refused to do so? The groups Sanchez made concessions to demand guaranties from him that the EU may thwart. Reference: https://www.abc.es/espana/amnistia-investidura
MALAGA CITY
Watch as angry customer rams his car into bank cash machine in Malaga because ‘it wouldn’t give him money’:
– The driver repeatedly reversed and crashed into the ATM for 10 minutes until police arrived on the scene and and arrested him. The motorist’s vehicle can be seen mounting the pavement on Calle Alcalde Joaquín Quiles in the Ciudad Jardín district at about 12.30pm on Sunday 12 November. Photo: S. Calzado. Full article with the video: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/watch-angry-customer-rams-his-car-into-20231113120440-nt.html
VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA
The Vélez-Málaga City Council eliminates the obligation to request an appointment to go to the Citizen Service Offices: {Translation}
– The Vélez-Málaga Town Hall has announced the reinstatement of the first-come, first-served appointments at the Citizen’s Advice Bureaux (OAC), eliminating the obligation to request an appointment in order to be attended, creating a hybrid system in all offices, both in Vélez-Málaga and in the mayor’s offices of Torre del Mar, Benajarafe, Caleta de Vélez and Almayate.
– On the web there will be 25 appointments available daily for Vélez-Málaga, while in Benajarafe, Caleta and Almayate there will be 10 daily appointments available on the web. Those who want to book can do so, but we have recovered the possibility of taking numbers as people arrive,” said the councillor.
– The councillor for Citizen Participation continued: “The opening hours are, Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 14.00, at all the venues. In the afternoons, in Vélez it will be open from Tuesday to Thursday, from 16.00 to 19.00 hours. On Monday afternoons, and with the same timetable, the service will continue to be provided in Benajarafe, while on Tuesday we will do it in Almayate, every Wednesday in Torre del Mar, and on Thursday it will be carried out in Caleta”, he explained. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/el-ayuntamiento-de-velez-malaga-elimina-la-obligatoriedad-de-solicitar-cita-previa-para-acudir-a-las-oficinas-de-atencion-a-l-ciudadania/
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Vélez-Málaga will celebrate ‘Music Day’ with a Musical Route through the city’s monuments: {Translation}
– The Town Hall of Vélez-Málaga, through the Department of Culture, will celebrate next Friday 24th November the ‘Day of Music’ through the streets and monuments of the historic centre of Vélez. An event in which four concerts are scheduled in four emblematic points of culture in the city and which will offer a complete musical route for all tastes.
– Concerts are at 7pm, 9:15pm and 10:30pm. The dance/theater show is at 8pm. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/velez-malaga-celeb
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SPORTS
Tennis Update- Carlos Alcaraz loses to Alexander Zverev in his ATP Finals debut, Medvedev wins and moves on, while Djok finishes as ATP #1 for eighth time:
– After missing the ATP Finals last year because of an abdominal injury, Alcaraz was beaten in his opening match of this season’s competition by two-time champion Alexander Zverev 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4.
– In the other red group match, Daniil Medvedev quickly dispatched his good friend Andrey Rublev 6-4, 6-2.
– Novak Djokovic clinches No. 1 ATP finish for record eighth time. Djokovic needed only one match win at the ATP Finals to be sure of keeping the top spot and the 24-time Grand Slam champion did it in his opener, beating Holger Rune 7-6 (4), 6-7 (1), 6-3 on Sunday.
Full article: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/38889827/carlos-alcaraz-loses-alexander-zverev-atp-finals-debut
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