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1âThe latest count gives 36 convicted sex offenders who have benefited from a sentence reduction due to the âonly yes is yesâ law. 10 are already free.
2âFeijĂło wants you to vote for him before he tries anything. Itâs not just sedition. Itâs also SĂĄnchezâs new sex crimes reform. He doesnât want to table a motion of no confidence, he doesnât have the MPs to stop anything, but every time he goes on TV, he is asking for votes.
3âEl PaĂs, on the Toscano-Montero spat in Congress: âWhat happened is much more than coarse, bitter chauvinism: it is a denial of the dignity of women, as was made clear yesterday when another extremist MP sought to praise another MP from his group by praishing her âmanlinessââ. The paper sees a parliamentary strategy by Vox against the PP.
4âABC reports the government will propose legislation on 16 types of family in Spain at next weekâs cabinet meeting. The varieties have to do with the number of parents in the family unit, their sexual orientation, or the origin of the children. The editorial is titled "cancelling the concept of family".
5âSpanish bishops have a new secretary general and he commented on the matter earlier: âJesus Christ did not invent marriage. Marriage already existed: in Roman law, in Greek law, in Egyptian law, in Israeli lawâŠThere was the institution of marriage and there was another sociological types of unionâŠâ
6âMPs from several parties have seen video images of what happened at the Melilla border fence during the assault at the end of June, resulting in 23 deaths. They now want the Home Secretary to explain himself. "We hope that his story will change this time, because what he told us two months ago does not correspond to the images we have seen today," said Miguel GutiĂ©rrez, from Ciudadanos.
7âHere is the BBC video report on what happened in Melilla
8âA lawyer representing the European Parliament has said before the General Court of the European Union (TGUE) that Puigdemont was able to occupy his seat as an MEP "probably illegally".
9âPuigdemont's lawyer, Boye, says that his client is suffering "political persecution" and that the Spanish parliament is about toâŠrepeal sedition.
10âInditex shop workers in A Coruña (Galicia) are striking. They say 90% have not gone to work today. Unions at the national level had agreed to an increase of âŹ122 in each pay packet. The workers want âŹ440.
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