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Mayor’s wife sings cringeworthy tribute

It might not be something likely to catch on with Michelle Obama or Samantha Cameron anytime soon, but one politician’s wife in Spain decided to show support, during a local council meeting, through the medium of song.

Mayor’s wife sings cringeworthy tribute
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She launched into the self-penned song about the many successes of her husband, Popular Party (PP) politician, Ángel Nozel.

The wife of Nozel, the Mayor of Mijas, Andalusia, sang to the tune of Resisteré (I will resist) by Spanish group Duo Dynamico.

The impromptu ballad was recorded and uploaded to Youtube by the Mijas branch of the PP, quickly making the rounds of Spanish social media, where most commenters found it utterly cringeworthy.

"This is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen in a long time," Diego Fernandez Barreiro commented on the Youtube video.

Spanish daily El Mundo commented that this is what happens when traditional parties try to harness the power of social media in their campaigning, something which rising left-wing protest party, Podemos, has done so well.

They have "no fear of looking ridiculous" the Spanish newspaper wrote. 

The video shows the woman taking to the microphone, reading from a piece of paper as she lists some of her husband’s great achievements as mayor, which include "cleaning up the beaches" and "creating vegetable patches for old people".

A selection of lyrics from the two-minute long song:

You created an amazing Mijas

You cleaned up beaches, the mountains and the city…

I vouch, I will vote for you again,

I want you as mayor for four more years,

You’ve created vegetable patches for the elderly,

And congratulate them as they turn a year older.  

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Spain rejects Argentinian claim PM Sánchez ruining the country

Spain on Saturday denounced comments by Argentina's presidency which had accused the Spanish government of bringing "poverty and death" to its own people.

Spain rejects Argentinian claim PM Sánchez ruining the country

The office of Argentinian President Javier Milei had published a statement on Twitter/X, accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of damaging Spain’s economy and stability.

The post appears to have been in reaction to earlier comments from Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente who had suggested Milei is on drugs.

“The Spanish government categorically rejects the unfounded words… which do not reflect the relations between the two countries and their fraternal people,” the Spanish foreign ministry said.

Milei’s office also accused Sanchez of “endangering the unity of the kingdom, by sealing an agreement with the separatists and leading Spain to its ruin”, an allusion to a pact Sanchez’s Socialist Party struck with Basque and Catalan regionalist parties to form a government.

Milei will travel to Spain in two weeks for an event on May 18 and 19 organised by the far-right opposition party Vox, which is in a race with the Socialists in next month’s European elections.

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