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The Socialist Party primary process is, logically, followed with special interest from the Moncloa Palace. Of the candidates who aspire to lead the party, the one who most worries Mariano Rajoy and his team is the Basque Eduardo Madina. “ Madina is the most dangerous .” This is how forcefully one of the members of the team of collaborators who works every day with Rajoy in La Moncloa, to whom El Confidencial Digital has had access, expresses himself . The opinions they have of the now general secretary of the socialist group in Congress are not positive at all . Given that, both in the presidency of the Government and in the leadership of the Popular Party, it is not ruled out that the PP could lose the absolute majority it achieved in 2011, who is a socialist candidate is, therefore, a key question for the popular party of facing the next generals. Dangerous for the country Although none of them have formalized their candidacy, among all the theoretical candidates in Moncloa they consider that Eduardo Madina is the most dangerous, not so much for Mariano Rajoy and the Popular Party, but above all for the country, in the event that he becomes responsible. or it is necessary to negotiate with him.
Neither Rubalcaba , nor Carme Chacón , nor Patxi López are as disturbing as the young Basque politician. The Moncloa sources consulted by ECD describe Madina as “ radical ” and “ sectarian ”, in view of his political career and his statements, both in the Basque Phone Number List Country and in Madrid. “ When he suffered the ETA attack he came to say that the PP had provoked it ,” say the same sources from Mariano Rajoy's team. A Machiavelli In the environment of the President of the Government he is even compared to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. “ It's like Machiavelli ,” they say from Moncloa. This comment refers to the book that José García Abad wrote about the former president of the Government, ' El Machiavelli de León '. In it he related how the politician's smile hid a complicated character: at first it is shocking because of his speech, but he does not forget or forgive, one could read in this unauthorized biography. In Moncloa it is said that the PSOE today does not have the leaders who stood out in the party in other times. They cite figures such as Joaquín Almunia , Javier Solana and Felipe González himself .
Now, they regret, not even Rubalcaba reaches the level of these historical socialists.The incorporation of the 'autonomous embassies' to the diplomatic representations of Spain was viewed with suspicion by some autonomous communities, thinking that in this way they would lose visibility, but in the end fifteen of them have accepted the Executive's offer, and have signed an agreement with the Government to physically integrate into the buildings of embassies and commercial offices, which represents significant savings in times of crisis. As El Confidencial Digital has learned, the regional governments of Artur Mas and Iñaki Urkullu are the only ones that have declined the offer and continue to maintain their offices. The Generalitat's Budget for 2014 allocates 2.2 million to its 40 delegations around the world. The Basque Country has 14 offices distributed abroad. Where the incorporation of all communities has occurred has been in the Technical Cooperation Offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this case, Catalonia and the Basque Country have moved to those dependencies, abandoning the ones they had. The Government's estimates are that the integration of the regional offices abroad, which last year exceeded 160 , into the administrative departments of the State would mean a total saving for public administrations of 22 million euros for a period of three years.