Spain opens inquiry into strike policing as election campaign begins

The November 12 bulletin also covers a housing decree, a warning about altered ballots and European support for Ukraine.

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0:07The Interior Ministry investigates strike policing; unions and journalists criticize interventions, while the employers' leader supports police.
2:44A housing decree passes with Basque Nationalist Party support, despite opposition from PP, Vox and Junts.
4:46A CIS poll projects a Socialist victory; the following segment warns that crossing out a candidate invalidates ballots.
6:16The report covers an investigation into procurement and failures involving electronic domestic-abuse monitoring bracelets.
7:43The bulletin reports Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia and Colette Kress's appointment as interim chief executive.
8:07Moscow talks feature Russia's rejection of territorial concessions, followed by European discussions in Dublin about supporting Ukraine.

Spain's Interior Ministry has ordered an investigation into police charges during the November 11 general strike, as the country enters campaigning for its November 29 election.

Spain's public broadcaster Radio Televisión Española, through RTVE Noticias, reports that Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska also ordered police not to use tear gas at future demonstrations. He said some actions appeared inconsistent with the principle of proportionality.

The bulletin opens with complaints from unions and journalists about police conduct. Radio Nacional de España journalist Graciela García describes a police intervention as unnecessary and says the police barrier itself generated tension. UGT union leader Pepe Álvarez calls the response disproportionate. Employers' association CEOE president Antonio Garamendi, by contrast, expresses solidarity with the police.

Housing supplies the next major political dispute. Parliament's Permanent Deputation, the body that maintains parliamentary functions outside normal sittings, approved one of two government housing decrees adopted after a woman's eviction, the report says. The Basque Nationalist Party supported it; the conservative People's Party, far-right Vox and Catalan party Junts opposed it. EH Bildu's Oskar Matute describes the measure as insufficient but necessary, while Housing Minister Isabel Rodríguez casts the election as a vote on housing rights.

A pre-election survey by CIS, Spain's public polling institute, projects a Socialist Party victory with roughly a third of the vote. The bulletin also carries a practical warning from the Central Electoral Board: crossing Óscar Puente's name off a party list would invalidate the ballot.

The judicial coverage includes testimony from a former lawyer for Koldo García about fees received, followed by a European Public Prosecutor's Office investigation and a Civil Guard UCO search concerning procurement and failures involving electronic bracelets used to monitor domestic-abuse restraining orders. Those investigative steps do not establish wrongdoing.

Abroad, the report announces Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia chief executive and Colette Kress's interim appointment. It then turns to US envoys meeting the Kremlin in Moscow, reporting that Russia continues to reject territorial concessions. A closing dispatch from Dublin examines proposed European financial and military assistance for Ukraine.

The upload, "Las noticias del jueves 12 de noviembre en 10 minutos | RTVE Noticias" ("Thursday 12 November's news in 10 minutes"), brings together the aftermath of the strike and the opening arguments of Spain's election campaign.

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