It was announced in July by the minister of the government of Spain and socialist candidate to preside over the Council, Diana Morant, and this Tuesday the state executive fulfilled its threat and filed an appeal of unconstitutionality against the budget accompaniment law of the Generalitat Valenciana for including the criterion of national priority in the granting of social aid, calling into question the right to abortion or questioning the equality of LGBTIQ+ people.

After the family made their request public this same week, the Spanish government has committed to recognizing Guillem Agulló as a victim of terrorism. In fact, the commitment was adopted by the Spanish president himself, Pedro Sánchez, before the family, with whom he met this Friday in Valencia before the pre-campaign event, as reported by Cadena SER and confirmed by ARA. This week, Guillem Agulló's family sent a letter to Pedro Sánchez and also to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in which they demanded that the young anti-fascist murdered 33 years ago at the hands of the extreme right be recognized as a victim of terrorism. In fact, until now the request has received the support of more than 200 personalities from the legal, political and media worlds.

At the gates of the November 29th general elections, the family of Guillem Agulló remains waiting for the Spanish government to move to "repair the damage" and to "honor the memory" of the young anti-fascist and pro-independence activist murdered 33 years ago at the hands of the extreme right. In April of this year, the activist's parents and sisters requested that the Ministry of the Interior recognize him as a victim of far-right terrorism. As of now, Fernando Grande-Marlaska's department has only requested two reports, from the Civil Guard and the Castelló Court, to evaluate it. "The first has already spoken out and denies us the right to the distinction," they denounce. At this point, Guillem Agulló's family has sent a letter to Grande-Marlaska and the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, to demand that they take the step "before it is too late".

It is enough to talk for a short while with Ferran Torrent (Sedaví, 1951) to realize that he not only has a very rich collection of anecdotes—personal adventures and misadventures of all kinds, literary and political gossip, a colorful macedonia of human typologies seen up close—but that, furthermore, he unfolds and recounts them with an infallible grace. One day that we had gone to one of those pre-Sant Jordi days that publishing houses organize so that their authors try to sign books in bookstores in large cities near Barcelona, I spent two hours with him in a car—Màrius Serra was driving, Gemma Ventura was also there—and I bombarded him with questions. It is impossible to recount all the laughing we did with Torrent's answers and stories. Before the journey ended, I asked him how it was possible that no one had ever proposed making a book of conversations with him. Torrent replied that they had indeed proposed it to him, and by journalists he respected a lot, but that he kept putting them off. In the end, it seems that the journalist and writer Salvador Ortells Miralles (Sueca, 1977) has managed to convince him. It is good news.

The Valencian sculptor Miquel Navarro died this Sunday at the age of 81, reports the City Council of Mislata, the town where he was born and lived. In a statement on social media, the council recalls that Navarro was a "cultural reference and a key figure in the creation of the house-workshop that bears his name and in the artistic legacy that will always remain in Mislata." "He leaves an indelible mark on our city, and on Valencian culture," says the City Council, as reported by the Efe agency.

"We feel total helplessness and defenselessness. We don't know what to do or who to turn to. We have been without an elevator for two years, and my son and I suffer from asthma, and my partner has a torn knee cruciate ligament." The second anniversary of the DANA in the Valencian Country arrives when some scars of the catastrophe remain completely present and many people suffer the consequences every day. This is the case of Nuria Carmona's family, a resident of the Valencian town of Picanya who, despite suffering from a chronic respiratory disease, has to climb the stairs five floors that separate the garage from her home. It is also the case for José Cerdán, a resident of Catarroja who has still not been able to recover his house. In fact, due to a dispute between neighbors, he hasn't even been able to start the works.

It is eleven in the morning and under an almost summery sun and a warm westerly wind, Irene Miralles and Salvador Morató are taking a short break. They are taking advantage of the pleasant temperature, which is already over twenty degrees, to get some air and smoke a few cigarettes after a frantic and exhausting morning. For hours they have not stopped removing furniture and appliances damaged by the downpour that, between Sunday night and Monday morning, flooded several Valencian regions, especially La Safor and La Marina Alta, and caused four victims, one in Sagunt, two in Oliva, and the last one in Pego, a farmer found this Tuesday, whose death is still being investigated to see if it was caused by the heavy downpours. "We were very afraid. It is the third flood I have experienced and until now the water had never entered the house. We are not prepared for what is coming our way", laments Salvador.

"I woke up because it was raining so hard that water was entering our house through the windows, to the point that an inch of water had accumulated in the dining room. And I'm talking about a third floor." Sergi Morell, a resident of Oliva, will not easily forget the DANAAdam, which has left historic records in the Valencian regions of La Safor and La Marina Alta: up to 720 liters per square meter in nearly 36 hours. The episode also caused rivers to overflow, flooded six municipalities, and left hundreds of people trapped in their homes. A count to which the most tragic of balances must be added: as of now, there are three fatalities, a woman and a man from Oliva and another from Sagunto, who had disappeared on Sunday afternoon at the beach where she had been swimming, even though an orange alert for rain and coastal phenomena had been active all day.

Head bowed and covered by a hat and hands on the bell ropes. Francesc Llop sees his profession in the gesture of his profile picture: when the rest of us mortals hear a sound, we lift our heads; a bell ringer, on the other hand, lowers his. The sound may announce a passing bell. The anthropologist and manager of the websitecampaners.com also explains the reason for his hat: it is well known that pigeons have an acquired taste for bell towers.

"There is a game", defended the president of Acció Cultural, Anna Oliver. "I am optimistic, with the DANA we won the streets", added Gemma Pasqual, president of the Societat Coral El Micalet. "In 2023 some people stayed home, we hope they have learned the lesson", concluded Antonio Royo, delegate of the Plataforma per la Llengua at the traditional October Ninth demonstration, the Day of the Valencian Country, which this year had a participation of 2,000 people according to the Spanish government delegation and a clearly pre-electoral slogan: "Let's win the country".

A meager 6.28% of teaching in Valencian at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) compared to 8.04% in English and 84.79% in Spanish. These are the data made public by the Linguistic Promotion and Normalization Service of the same center and which have been denounced by the Teaching and Research Staff for Valencian (PDIxValencià), a group of professors that has launched a signature collection campaign to demand a reversal of the situation suffered by the native language at the institution.

The Valencian supermarket cooperative Consum will invest 100 million euros in the construction of a new logistics platform in the city of Barcelona, as reported in a statement issued this Wednesday.

This Monday, the corpse of a man without a head or limbs and in an advanced state of decomposition was found floating off the coast of Sagunto, in Camp de Morvedre, as reported this Wednesday by Efe, citing Civil Guard sources.

The Volkswagen Group, PowerCo and the Chinese company Gotion High-Tech have agreed to "deepen their strategic alliance" through a joint venture for the development and operation of the battery cell gigafactory currently under construction in the town of Sagunto (Valencian Community). In this way, the Chinese manufacturer is investing some 1.1 billion euros to obtain 49% of the gigafactory.

With selective lapses of memory on the part of the president of the Provincial Council of Valencia, Vicent Mompó, and with silence in the case of the former Minister of Emergencies and Interior Salomé Pradas. Once again, the former head of the Consell Carlos Mazón has received the protection of his former subordinates, who avoided revealing any details about the actions of their former leader in his second appearance before the DANA commission of the Congress. A behavior that is especially striking in the case of Pradas, given that she is charged with the crimes of reckless homicide and reckless injury for the management of a catastrophe that already has 233 fatalities. This Monday, a resident of Catarroja was added to the list, who suffered an intracranial hemorrhage when the force of the water that entered her home knocked her down.

The Civil Guard is investigating a possible racist assault on a man by a large group of youths in the Valencian town of Tavernes de la Valldigna. The events took place last weekend, during the town's festivities, as confirmed by sources from the armed institute. The officers have a video showing the entire scene. The video, which has gone viral on social media due to its chilling images, will serve to identify the participants in the assault and to proceed with their arrest.

The Generalitat's Emergency Coordination Centre (CEE) has activated the red alert for high temperatures on the north and south coasts of Valencia, as well as on the north coast of Alicante. It has also activated the orange alert in the north and south interior of Valencia and in the interior and south coast of Alicante.

The forest fire in Tírig, in the Alt Maestrat region, has been controlled by emergency services after four days of intense work and several meetings by the Cecopi, attended by the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama; the Government's delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, and the President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca.

The PSPV-PSOE has reported that the Popular Party's Council left 21% of the budget allocated for hiring forest firefighters unexecuted during 2025, a year in which the staff of the Valencian Society for Integrated Management of Emergency Services (SGISE) only increased by two employees, going from 889 to 891 forest firefighters. This was communicated this Sunday, August 2nd, by the socialist spokesperson for Emergencies in the Corts, Alicia Andújar, who stated that “the problem is no longer just the 14 million cut that the service suffered in 2024, but the Council's inability to execute resources and reinforce an essential operation”.

"We signed the agreement because [the case] has to be closed somehow and the agreement reached is still a recognition of responsibility. Six months of trial would have been a torment and, moreover, with a wide margin of uncertainty, because all possibilities were open, from complete acquittal to complete conviction." This is the justification that Enric Chulio, former president of the Association of Victims of the Metro Accident of July 3, 2006, gave to ARA minutes before entering the room where the sentence has been delivered, which has convicted four former executives and acquitted four others. The association has finally joined the agreement signed last week between the Prosecutor's Office and the defenses of the eight defendants, and has allowed the conclusion of a process opened 14 years ago.