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Through a statement, Iturgaiz affirms that when he was president of the Basque PP, between 1996 and 2004, the party was financed from the amounts contributed by the national Popular Party . The general secretary of the PP himself in those years had to make a subscription to pay for the security of the Popular Party of Euskadi. The PP did not have enough membership to have income, nor resources from which to obtain it. The current general secretary of the Basque PP has already shown the papers of the mortgage loan paid to the headquarters' Banco Popular , as well as the payments that were made monthly, until the loan was terminated. All the accounts for those years are audited by the Court of Accounts and by the internal audits of the Popular Party at the national level. He also says that “I put not only my hand, but both, for all the leaders of the PP in the Basque Country, from Jaime Mayor Oreja to María San Gil and all those who accompanied me in the regional leadership at that time.”Last Friday, once the accusation of Lluïsa Bruguer was confirmed , the organizational secretary of the PSC, Esteve Terradas , denied in a press conference the existence of contracts with the detective agency to spy on any political authority in Catalonia. However, as El Confidencial Digital has learned , the Catalan socialists did contact Method 3, although “only to request their services internally .
The PSC suspected that it was being spied on This is what PSC leaders assure this newspaper, who are aware of the contracts that the party signed with the detective agency, and that they are reflected in the accounting computer of the head of Special Database finance, Lluïsa Bruguer, These assignments, which were carried out by “the previous executive”, were carried out due to suspicions at the top of possible espionage by a rival party: “ We received information about the existence of microphones in our headquarters , and we asked for help to check if that was true.” For this reason, “we contacted Method 3 , which carried out a series of ' sweeps' in our offices to detect any spy tools .” All parties “have contacted the agency” From the PSC they assure that all the parties in Catalonia have contacted , on some occasion, the detective agency. The socialist leaders consulted explain that there have been a few years in which the suspicion of espionage existed in all the formations, and Method 3 has carried out sweeps with all of them to detect microphones. In the regional leadership of the party it is taken for granted that the judge “ will only find orders for sweeps ” from the agency, a request “that has also been made, with complete certainty, by the rest of the formations.
As El Confidencial Digital has learned , Bernardino León's contacts with Moroccan diplomats have been decisive in the visit that the king and eight Spanish foreign ministers made to the Alawite kingdom last week, in which new economic and strategic alliances between the two were discussed. countries. The “great international agenda” of the former Secretary of State with Zapatero, a career diplomat and appointed EU special envoy for the southern Mediterranean a year ago , has not gone unnoticed by Margallo and his team, who have asked him for his collaboration in several moments of the legislature. In fact, its role at the community level, which allows it to have permanent contact with Arab countries , has served the Government to have more information about the conflicts in the area, and also, as already mentioned, to achieve a large diplomatic meeting and business in Morocco last week. Well valued by the Government Although in some sectors of the Government and the PP there is "some misgiving" about Margallo's good relationship with Bernardino León, the truth is that from Foreign Affairs, and in most of the Executive, the help of the socialist leader Specifically, sources from the Government and the Popular Party consulted by ECD assure that " at the European level, Bernardino is one of the most highly valued Spaniards , and his management is beneficial for the country, regardless of who is in La Moncloa." Regarding León's options to become a leader with weight in the PSOE, the Executive and the PP have no doubts: "Now he has moved further away from the party, but he is one of the great values of the Socialist Party, both present and future ".