1. The government also hides the reports of the Advocacy on the state of alarm . The government maintains its strategy of opacity with Congress. After refusing to make public the alerts that the Department of Homeland Security sent to the executive president, Pedro Sanchez, about Covid-19 in the months prior to the pandemic, La Moncloa now prevents Vox from accessing the reports that the State Attorney’s Office issued on the state of alarm. The deputy spokesperson of this group, Macarena Olona, requested the documents by means of registration in the Lower Chamber after learning that the public lawyers had drafted several texts on different aspects of the alarm framework, and with the suspicion that some of them were not favorable to the decisions taken by the Executive.

2. Spain has eight of the ten regions in the EU with the most coronaviruses . Spain is the European Union country with the highest number of cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. It is also currently the country with the highest infection rate according to the size of its population. It is also the country with the highest number of regions among the most affected in the Union. Eight of the ten regions with the highest rate of infection in the European Union are in Spain: Aragon, the Community of Madrid, the Basque Country, the Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Navarre, Catalonia and Castile and Leon. The first six occupy the top six positions in number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, according to data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as of August 26.

3. The pandemic deflates rents in Madrid and Barcelona . With a reduced supply and a runaway demand, it has taken a health pandemic to double the rents in Madrid and Barcelona. At least partially. In August, the price of rents fell 3.2% in Madrid and 4.9% in Barcelona compared to the same month last year, according to data from Fotocasa to which this newspaper had exclusive access. Figures that contrast with the national result of Spain, which recorded a year-on-year increase of 8.6%. The data already record timid declines in rents in recent months, even before the outbreak of the pandemic. But the trend has not been confirmed until the summer.

4. Urkullu will appoint the Basque socialist leader as vicelendakari of his new government . PNV and PSE closed yesterday their agreement to re-edit the coalition government in the Basque Country that will be presided over by Iñigo Urkullu, this time with a comfortable absolute majority in parliament. As it happened in 2016, the two parties put aside their differences on the issue of identity and the «right to decide» that the nationalists defend, although they do include in their document of bases the «need» to give birth to a new Basque statute. surpassing the current constitutional text of Guernica. «The disagreement has been agreed», both delegations indicate. The main novelty in the structure of the Basque cabinet will be the entry into the Executive of the leader of the PSE, Idoia Mendia, with the rank of vicelendakari, according to socialist sources given to ABC.

The U.S. election campaign begins: Trump accepts the Republican nomination. Donald Trump last night made a long review of what he considers his greatest achievements in recent years after formally accepting his party’s nomination to run for reelection as president in two months. «These are the most important elections in the history of our country,» the president proclaimed in an unusual place for a rally of this caliber: the White House itself, chosen by Trump for this purely electoral speech because the limitations imposed by the pandemic made it inadvisable to gather crowds in a stadium or convention center, as had been the case until now in political congresses.

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6. Messi prepares his replica of Barça as he approaches the City . Leo Messi plans to give his version and explain himself to the members. The footballer does not want his twenty years defending the shirt of Barcelona and all his stratospheric records to be tarnished after his decision to leave the club azulgrana. «It will be Leo who will give all the public explanations in due time», they assure to this newspaper from their most intimate surroundings, although they do not manage to assure the exact moment in which he offers his truth and his reasons. Messi feels that the club does not accompany him with a sports project to aspire to the highest level and that is the main argument to break his comfort zone and seek accommodation in another club that offers the possibility of getting that «cup so beautiful and desired» that resists since the last time he raised a lustrum.

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