Post by account_disabled on Feb 28, 2024 2:20:50 GMT -8
To leave that madrid home, although the complete departure will not occur until the elections are held (november 20), the results are announced, the cortes are constituted, and the king is nominated. The new candidate for the presidency of the government, and he is invested and takes office. Sources close to the presidency of the government, consulted by el confidencial digital , have explained that the departure of zapatero and his family will take place definitively around next christmas . Has had some effects although there is no rush, and therefore there is no atmosphere of change in la moncloa, however, the first symptoms of the end of an era, that of the current president and his family, are already beginning to be seen. The move has not begun, but there have already been some minor and sporadic departures , with small effects in all cases. According to those sources consulted by ecd , zapatero has transferred, for example, some painting that is his property. A bouquet of flowers from sonsoles in that atmosphere at the end of the cycle, on friday a hitherto unknown circumstance occurred: rodríguez zapatero was received, upon arriving at the council of ministers room, with a large bouquet of flowers , carried directly by his wife, sonsoles espinosa.
The reason for that reception was not the imminent goodbye to la moncloa, but the desire to congratulate him, in person, on eta's announcement that it is definitively abandoning violence. While he received the bouquet of flowers, the Special Database ministers applauded the president. At the end of friday morning, zapatero invited the three ministers of the interior he has had, josé antonio alonso, alfredo pérez rubalcaba and antonio camacho , to lunch, along with commanders of the security forces that have led the fight against eta. . León's house is not finished a small difficulty that the rodríguez-espinosa family will face at the end of the year is that they still do not have their future residence available , which will replace la moncloa. The villa that the president of the government is building ( see news ) in an urbanization in his city, león, has barely begun to be built, the works will still take some time, and therefore he will not be able to occupy it when he leaves la moncloa. Until then, they will resort to a temporary residence .
Thursday's announcement was received with special satisfaction among the main people responsible for the fight against terrorism at the Ministry of the Interior: " This statement is the good one, the one we wanted ," a senior official assured El Confidencial Digital . As ECD has learned from senior officials in the fight against terrorism, the Government has perfectly designed the roadmap that will have to be followed from now on. It is a plan considered and agreed upon between the central and Basque Executives, in which Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has participated on the front line. “Now, let's negotiate” “ Now, let's negotiate ,” explain the sources consulted by ECD . The first step, indeed, is to create a negotiating table , in which not only the central government is present. It will also include all the parliamentary parties , as well as the rest of the Basque organizations. What the Executive seeks is the greatest possible consensus in the decisions that can be made. It remains to be seen, first of all, ETA's response to that initiative. The information the Government has does not clarify what the position of the terrorist group will be, which in its statement only refers to a “ direct dialogue ” with Spain and France to resolve the “conflict.