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Renfe free passes on sale
RENFE users can now obtain the free travel cards for Cercanias, Rodalies, and Media Distancia. They will be available for travel between May 1 and August 31, 2023.
After the government approved the extension of the free travel passes during 2023 for recurrent passengers, Renfe is now offering users specific multijourney tickets valid for each fourmonth period of the year.
Season tickets can be purchased via the Renfe Cercanias app. In the case of Media Distancia, season tickets are obtainable via www.renfe. com and the usual sales channels. For Avant rail services, the 50 per cent discount on season tickets is maintained.
The Cercanias app allows the purchase of Cercanias and Rodalies recurrent season tickets by generating a QR code that can be downloaded to a mobile phone and subsequently used at station access control.
To purchase the season ticket, although it is free, a deposit of €10 is required for
RENFE USERS: Can once again obtain free travel cards.
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Cercanias and Rodalies, and €20 for each conventional Media Distancia service. Payment by credit card will allow the deposit to be automatically refunded, once the condition of having made 16 journeys during the four months has been confirmed.
First female president?
YOLANDA DIAZ, Spain’s popular Labour Minister, announced on Sunday April 2 that she wants to be the first female president of Spain, at the official launch of her election bid leading the new political movement, ‘Sumar’.
In July 2022 Díaz launched the new political movement called Sumar (meaning ‘to add’) which she hopes will eventually include all parties to the left of Sánchez’s socialists.
In a crowded sports centre in the heart of Madrid with more than 3,000 people inside and another 2,000 who saw her speech through external screens, Diaz presented her project, defined as a new ‘bill of rights’ and a democratic, economic and social ‘contract’ for the Spain of the ‘next decade’.
“Today I am going to take a step forward, I want to be the first president of Spain. Because it is the time of women, because we women want to be the protagonists of history,” the leader of Sumar announced in a speech where she said she was “tired of guardianships.”
Largely unknown three years ago, 51yearold Díaz moved under the political spotlight in January 2020 when she entered the government as a representative of Podemos.
