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What happened in the last few hours

32 days before the general election on July 23, this is the highlight of the day at 2pm this Wednesday:

– Sánchez will propose in his electoral program to extend paternity and maternity leave from 16 to 20 weeks, with part-time in the last four. The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the PSOE will include in its electoral program the extension of paternity leave from the current 16 weeks to 20, making sure that these extension weeks, from 17 to 20, work part-time . The Prime Minister also intends that it is a “law mandate” that the minimum wage is “always” equal to 60% of the average wage, within the Workers’ Statute, as he explained in an act in Ferraz which he shared with José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. The minimum wage rose during his stay at La Moncloa from 735 euros to 1,080 euros.

– Fernández Vara announces that he will present himself for the investiture in Extremadura and asks the rest of the political groups to abstain. The interim president of Extremadura, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, who headed the government of Extremadura for two consecutive legislatures (2015-2023) and has already been in another one previously (2007-2011), announced this Wednesday at a press conference conference that it will be presented at the investiture, in the face of disagreement from PP and Vox, which would add an absolute majority. “I will transfer to the president of the Assembly of Extremadura my will to present myself for the investiture and to ask the rest of the groups to abstain so that, given that yesterday the bridges of the other possibility were blown, Extremadura can have a Government as soon as possible,” he said. Vara’s announcement comes after PP and Vox failed to reach an agreement to form a coalition executive in the region. The absence of a pact between conservatives and ultras yesterday led the PSOE, the force with the most votes out of 28-M, to assume the presidency of the regional assembly.

– Feijóo accuses Buxadé of blowing up the pact in Extremadura: “It is the elected presidents who must carry on the negotiations”. The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, justified the different strategies of his party in Extremadura and in the Valencian Community, arguing that “the results” obtained on May 28 at the polls “are different”. Vox, with “five deputies, cannot preside over the Chamber, control the Council and members of the government” of Extremadura. “It’s disproportionate,” he condemned, and accused Jorge Buxadé, vice president of Political Action at Vox, who went to Mérida on Tuesday to oversee the agreement, of blowing up the negotiations. “It is the presidents elected in the communities who have to lead the negotiations. I don’t agree with national leaders carrying out or editing preliminary conversations,” he censured.

– Ayuso announces that it will extend the 60% reduction in the price of public transport until the end of the year. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Wednesday, during the debate for her investiture in the Regional Assembly, that she will extend the reduction of monthly passes for public transport until the end of the year. National and regional governments are funding a 60% discount on these bonds in equal parts until June, at which point this aid is expected to decrease. However, Díaz Ayuso has assured that the bonus will be extended for another six months.

– Yolanda Díaz introduces Sumar’s candidates: “They are not united by charters or acronyms, but by a long-term commitment to the country”. Sumar’s leader, Yolanda Díaz, celebrated the debut of the coalition this Wednesday in Madrid, posing in a park in the capital next to numbers one and two of the new project’s lists in each constituency. At the ceremony, which took place before noon, the vice president stressed that her candidates “are not united by charters or acronyms, but by a long-term commitment to their country” and defined them as “professionals, workers, self-employed, doctors , teachers, architects… The best of civil society”. With all of them, he said, he has “a plan to live better in Spain”.

– Abascal admits for the first time the existence of sexist violence: “It is one of the forms of violence that exist”. The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has indicted the leader of the Extremaduran PP, María Guardiola, whom he accused of lying and contributing “to the demonization of Vox” by stating that she will not include in her government a party that denies the sexist violence. Abascal, who considers Extremadura’s entry into the government “an essential requirement”, added: “There are those who believe they can insult Vox and that Vox is therefore obliged to vote for them because of their pretty faces”, he said. said. For the first time, however, Abascal admitted that “macho violence exists”. “It’s one of the forms of violence that exist,” he added. His party often speaks of “domestic violence”.