Lightly cooked tortilla (with onion) crowned Spain’s national dish, Spain’s PM to use scandal-hit Zapatero in election campaign, Europol adds Spanish drug trafficker to most wanted list and more news on Thursday September 10th.
Sánchez backs Zapatero for role in election campaign
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, said Wednesday that the scandal-ridden former Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero will feature on the upcoming election campaign, scheduled sometime before August 2027, despite legal inquiries into his alleged corruption.
Corruption allegations against Zapatero grew this week following testimony from the two top executives at Plus Ultra, a minor Spanish airline that operated flights to Latin America and Zapatero is accused of being an intermediary for during a Covid-era bailout, something he denies.
The former Prime Minister has also failed to clarify the origin of jewellery found in his private office.
“Of course, I will be counting on José Luis, just as I always have in election campaigns,” Sánchez stated during an interview on TVE, reiterating the presumption of innocence of the former Prime Minister despite the growing body of evidence against him.
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Lightly cooked tortilla (with onion) crowned Spain’s national dish
New polling has revealed what Spaniards consider to be their national dish, with respondents choosing tortilla de patatas as the dish “most typical and representative” of Spanish cuisine. More specifically, they referred to tortilla that’s soft on the inside, and which includes onion.
Some 62.7 percent of the population chose the classic dish, ahead of paella (61.1 percent) and jamón ibérico (42.7 percent).
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The poll also shed some light on a debate that has long divided the country, revealing a clear preference: 71.2 percent prefer their tortilla with onion, compared to 22 percent without, while 56.3 percent choose it slightly underdone, compared to 27.2 percent who opt for it well done.
Far-left Podemos brand new Spanish housing portal ‘a joke’
The general secretary of far-left party Podemos, Ione Belarra, on Tuesday branded Spain’s newly launched public housing portal, Casa 47, a “joke”.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recently unveiled the new website attached to the Ministry of Housing, featuring a housing portal for affordable properties, with 800 already made available to the public and plans to soon add a further 1,500 across the country.
At a press conference in Parliament, however, Belarra criticised the launch of the portal: “Yet another headline-grabbing move that we already know will have no real impact on the brutal housing crisis our country is facing.”
The Podemos leader added that, with this measure, the government is “out of touch with reality” and pointed out that the website has barely 800 properties and none of them are located in the country’s major cities.
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Europol adds ‘one of the biggest drug traffickers in Spanish history’ to most wanted list
Europol, the European Union’s cross-border law enforcement agency, has added Spaniard Alejandro Salgado to its list of most wanted criminals.
On 7th September, Europol updated its list to include Vega, known by his criminal alias El Tigre (The Tiger).
Europol busca al madrileño Alejandro Salgado Vega, alias ‘El Tigre’, uno de los mayores narcotraficantes de Europa https://t.co/i42wIVGhXz
— 20minutos.es (@20m) September 9, 2026
Spanish police described him as “one of the biggest drug traffickers in Spanish history” and, according to the Eumostwanted website, Vega “is the leader of one of the world’s largest cocaine distribution networks, responsible for smuggling large consignments of cocaine into Spain”.
