PSOE, IU, CiU, PNV and the Canary party all call on the Junta Electoral to ensure pluralism in the election campaign. The say TVE has a chosen and easily proved bias in favour of the government. Frutos claims the agreement breaks private TV laws in Spain and has demanded that the communications authorities rule on the matter. The agreement has also continued to be criticised by the socialist leader Joaquin Almunia who has promised to modify competition laws if he wins the election. Meanwhile workers in the bank hold their first meeting with management later today since the BBV bank merged with Argentaria.
Unions are worried about the possible extent of job losses.
His statement is significant because the Partido Popular relied on Basque support for their minority government at the start of the current legislature. The camps of portable housing ordered by the Ministry for Employment for the immigrant campo workers at El Ejido have arrived in Almeria, but there are doubts as to where they will be placed following the refusal of the mayor of the local council to cede public land for their use. Juan Enciso said that there were enough immigrants there already and he saw such camps being converted into ghettos. It's thought that the final outcome will be the camps being set up on land offered by a local farmer. The driver was found with 1,375 kilos of haschis in his lorry but claimed he had no idea of how it had got there.