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On the front page of the press, the results of legislative elections in Spain, where voters voted yesterday for the fourth time in four years.
Despite this fourth ballot, Spain returns to square one. Once again, the outgoing Prime Minister, the Socialist Pedro Sanchez, comes first, but without getting a majority to govern. "Sanchez fails to win, and makes Spain even more difficult to govern": El Mundo also announces that the far-right party Vox becomes the third political force in the country, with 52 deputies, after his entry into parliament last April. "The PSOE wins the elections, but gets out of it weakened": El Pais points out that the Socialist Party loses three deputies, that the radical left of Podemos "falls", that the center-right of Ciudadanos "drowns", while the PP, the right, and the extreme right, they "rise" - the strongest progression being that of Vox, which doubles its number of seats compared to last April, and goes from 24 to 52 deputies.
The Catalan separatist parties consolidate their representation. With 23 of the 42 seats in play in Catalonia, the separatists also risk to complicate a little more the task of Pedro Sanchez, according to El Periodico . The Catalan newspaper announces that the far-left pro-independence party CUP, which was participating for the first time in a national poll, will enter the Spanish parliament with two deputies. "Sanchez enlisted, Vox made ciudadanos fall, independence prevails", title Ara , another Catalan daily newspaper. "These elections were not a good idea, and their results send a clear message to Pedro Sanchez: the super, the overconfidence are bad advice," the newspaper said.
Also on the front page is the resignation yesterday of Bolivian President Evo Morales after three weeks of protest. "Evo Morales and his Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, resign", headlines the site of the newspaper Los Tiempos , which evokes the release of the head of state by the army, "the social pressure and the cascading resignation of the members of his government, "after the emergence of a protest related to his reelection in the first round of the presidential election on October 20 and accusations of rigging the election. "Evo Morales has renounced the presidency of Bolivia," repeats El Deber , another Bolivian daily, which reports that Mexico has offered political asylum to the deposed president, as well as 20 members of the government and the assembly Bolivian National Party.
In France, more than 13,000 people demonstrated yesterday in Paris to denounce discrimination against Muslims. "We are in danger, we are not dangerous," chanted the protesters, who intended to denounce "growing stigmatization" of Muslims, especially since the recent controversy over wearing headscarves - a "controversial" mobilization, according to The Parisian , which evokes both "the profile" of its instigators, and "the vocabulary" used in their call to demonstrate, where there was talk of "liberticidal laws" and "Islamophobia". Words that tear the French political class, and have provoked an outcry on the part of the government, many members have expressed concern about possible attacks on secularism. The Muslim community itself is divided. The imam of Bordeaux, Tareq Oubrou, in particular, declared not to be "against the demonstrations, provided they are a moment of understanding and appeasement. No tension in society ".
They have everyone agree: yesterday, the Blue won the third Fed Cup in their history, at the expense of Australians. "Kiki is the strongest?": The team especially welcomes the performance of Kristina Mladenovic, aka Kiki, who won her two singles, and the doubles with Caroline Garcia, to give France their third victory. And since we are in the southern hemisphere prize-giving section, I also suggest you take a look at the Guardian, which tells you that New Zealanders have just been awarded the title of Bird of the World. year to the antipode penguin, also called yellow-eyed penguin - an endangered species, threatened by both climate change, fisheries and diseases and of which there are only 1700 specimens in New Zealand. According to The Guardian , the yellow-eyed penguin is very shy and unsociable, prefers to live alone or as a couple and communicates shouting. Very human, these critters.
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