The consultation to change the name and recover Catalan identity in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, the French nomenclature for Northern Catalonia, has ended. This Saturday was the last day of a vote held since June 22, although the results will not be known until August 28. With the participation data available (10% of the electorate with around 35,000 votes, according to departmental sources consulted, pending the publication of definitive data this Monday) and the positioning of the various actors, is a Catalanist shake-up expected? Will Pyrénées Catalanes win, will Pyrénées-Orientales remain, or will there be the cosmetic change of Pyrénées Méditerranée? This is the unknown after the departmental government rejected País Català because it believed the Council of State would veto it.

"Every year I feel a kind of sadness when these days approach," sighs hiker Biel Grau (Lliçà d'Amunt, 1948). Exactly 25 years ago, he lost two close friends buried by an avalanche while descending from the summit of Costabona, "a mountain of cows" at 2,465 meters in the Ripollès region. He survived for two days buried under the snow. It was the painful epilogue to the tragedy that had taken place three weeks earlier. Nine dead in the Balandrau area.

Today Cospedal and Camacho (remember Dolores de Cospedal and Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, one a minister and general secretary of the PP from 2008 to 2018 and the other from La Camarga?) will appear in Congress, in the commission of inquiry into Operation Catalonia. RAC1 broadcast this morning new audio recordings of Cospedal talking to Villarejo in which they speak highly of Camacho and congratulate each other because the 2012 elections, which Artur Mas brought forward and caused him to lose twelve deputies, had gone well for the party. patriotic police, with the false information he spread about Catalan politicians.