God help the world...

(BBC online)

USA (Opinion) ... if yet another Bush gets into the White House.

Manilva Mayoress resigns because of 'irregularities'

(sotograndedigital.com)

MANILVA (Cadiz) -- The westernmost municipality in the province of Malaga returns to its usual state of political instability, according to local and provincial media. The Mayoress, Antonia Muñoz, who has been on the Council for 27 years, and at its head since 2007, has been under investigation for alleged irregularities such as nepotism and dodgy contracts -- she resigned last Friday without offering any public explanations, just seven months before local elections. She had ben under pressure to resign since June 2013, when she and her Council cohorts officially resigned from her party (IU, Izquierda Unida) ranks. The present judicial investigation has already 'splashed' her family and close friends. Local sources also point to serious discrepancies with many of her political group, ever since they left IU.

Former Minister Gallardón gets a ‘job for the boys’ at €5.500 net per month

Ruiz Gallardón by Kikelin
(http://yolandacasaus.blogspot.com.es/

MADRID – The place is full of exes. On the website Consejo Consultivo de la Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid Consultation Council), the newest name is that of former Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, who resigned his Ministry when his boss, Mariano Rajoy, decided to give up on a controversial law on abortion that he had been trying to put through, and is also a former President of the country’s capital region, called Comunidad de Madrid.  From last Thursday the ex-Minister is a member of the Council earning €5,500 net per month, for life and for which he must attend every one of the Council’s meetings – about 67 a year or approximately one a week and usually on Wednesdays. The law that allows this was passed in December 2007 and set the salary as the same as that of active regional Councillors (Consejeros). The organisation costs the public purse some €4.3mm per year. I wonder what the millions of unemployed think of that – not to mention heads of families who have to live on salaries of well under €1,000 a month.