Post by ratna665 on Feb 27, 2024 3:58:30 GMT -5
But the market attacks that Spain began to receive on the morning of Holy Wednesday made its plans change definitively. And the fact is that, during that day, the risk premium began to climb and exceeded the barrier of 400 basis points for the first time since the PP arrived at La Moncloa . The President of the Government reaffirmed the idea of not leaving Madrid and began to contact from his office, at that very moment, with some of the most trusted collaborators to find out their analysis. And he continued to do so, every day , until this Easter Monday to follow the evolution of the markets and the risk premium, as confirmed by Government sources to ECD . Sáenz de Santamaría, De Guindos and Montoro, on guard According to the sources consulted, although Rajoy did allow the economic leadership of the Government, headed by Luis de Guindos and Cristóbal Montoro , to take a few days off during Holy Week , both were permanently on the lookout for their mobile phones in case they received any calls from Moncloa. The vice president, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, was also on duty . In one of the conversations with the Government's senior staff, Rajoy himself ordered Luis de Guindos, in the middle of Good Friday , to appear before the public to explain to the Spanish people why Spain was suffering from this harassment by the markets.
And so he did it. Two hours from Madrid The Minister of Finance decided not to leave the capital either, but the Minister of Economy did spend a few days on the Costa del Sol , and the Vice President in Portugal . According to Government Qatar Mobile Number List sources, consulted by ECD , Rajoy asked both De Guindos and Sáenz de Santamaría to be at a distance when traveling to be able to return to Madrid with the utmost urgency, in just over two hours, if the situation became complicated. The key call from Luis de Guindos to Rajoy According to senior leaders in Genoa, the origin of the lack of coordination between the PP and the Government during this crisis in the debt markets is that “Luis de Guindos is going on his own, not being a party man like Montoro, and decided to announce in the German newspaper, 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' , new government savings measures in Education and Health. The decision of the Minister of Economy - who in the PP recalled Felipe González 's strategy of announcing important decisions abroad before in Spain - made the Government react quickly, which asked Genoa to send a "message of tranquility in the face of the commotion that had been created.
The speech given by the number three of the PP, Carlos Floriano , was commissioned by the party's general secretary, María Dolores De Cospedal , who previously spoke with Moncloa to coordinate what had to be said. Luis de Guindos ' reaction was immediate: he telephoned Rajoy to warn him that Europe was demanding "stop now" new cuts in Health and Education, which precipitated the emergency meeting of the Government's economic team on Monday, and the subsequent note press release announcing the cut of 10,000 million euros. The cut of 10,000 million was not in the Budgets In Genoa it is admitted that this 'snip' was not within the General State Budgets presented last week in Congress by Cristóbal Montoro , and that it is due to "new pressures from Brussels." Regarding whether it has been improvised or not, they acknowledge that "it is something that we always attributed to the Zapatero Government and now it is true that we have acted in a very similar way."As El Confidencial Digital has learned , the so-called 'maternity protection law' is being drafted in parallel to the reform of the current Abortion Law, in such a way that it could be integrated into said legislative change or have a normative nature in a form independent .