A roundup of the latest news on Monday
Four people have died in four separate accidents between 3pm on Friday October 9th, the start of the Puente del Pilar long weekend, and 8pm on Sunday October 11th, according to Spain’s General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Two of the victims were motorcyclists.
The DGT told Spain’s international news agency EFE that Saturday was the deadliest day, with three accidents and three fatalities. Among the victims was a motorcyclist who died in an accident near Pontevedra, Galicia.
Another victim was a 46-year-old man who died when the truck he was driving fell from a bridge on the AP-7 motorway, near Benicarló in Castellón, according to the Emergency Information and Coordination Centre (CICU).
Nearly half of Spaniards fear new housing decrees will worsen crisis
A total of 42.9 percent of Spaniards believe that the government’s proposed solutions to address the housing crisis will in fact make the situation worse, according to a poll conducted by the DYM Institute for news site 20minutos.
On the other side of the coin, 39.6 percent of respondents said they believed that these decrees would help to solve the problem, showing that the country is very divided on the issue. A significant is the percentage of respondents – 17.5 percent, however, did not know or did not answer. That means one in six respondents did not express an opinion on them.
Hotel cleaners from all over Spain demand early retirement
Hotel cleaners from across the country are demanding that their profession be classified as arduous, thus granting them access to early retirement.
On October 27th and 28th of this month, the UGT union will hold a congress in Calvià, Mallorca, attended by between 100 and 150 of these workers from all over the country. The aim is to discuss the problems they face and put pressure on both the central government and hotel companies to support their demands, according to José García Relucio, general secretary of the UGT’s Services Federation in the Balearic Islands.
