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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, did demand that the general secretary of the PSOE present some type of draft with the keys to his proposal, to analyze it in detail and, depending on what was seen, support it or not. That is the case of Guillermo Fernández Vara , who did not want to speak out for or against this constitutional reform until "not knowing what it will consist of with a text in front of it." This draft, according to well-placed sources in the PSOE, will be developed in five seminars that will be held in the first half of the year , and will be presented at the autumn Political Conference.The reason is the Foreign Action and Service Law, and the reason is that the vice president wants Spain's ambassadors to not only be diplomats, while the head of Foreign Affairs opposes this attempt with all his might. The battle is being fought in the meetings held privately by Sáenz de Santamaría and García-Margallo, and sources familiar with those meetings tell El Confidencial Digital that neither of them wants to give in . At the moment, it is being impossible to reach an agreement. Sáenz de Santamaría's position Sáenz de Santamaría proposes that the appointment of Spanish ambassadors become the direct responsibility of the vice-presidency of the Government. According to his proposal, Moncloa would appoint the head of the diplomatic representation in a country after having previously heard the proposals of various ministries: Foreign Affairs, Defense or Culture.
Another novelty that the vice president intends to incorporate in the appointment of ambassadors is that officials from what is known as group A can access the position of highest representatives of Spain in a country even if they are not diplomats. These senior South Korea Phone Number officials must be in possession of a university degree (doctor, graduate, engineer or architect). In short, Moncloa's intention is to be able to appoint state lawyers , commercial technicians , inspectors, property registrars or even economists as ambassadors . The only condition would be to be an official at the highest level of the Administration. García-Margallo says no José Manuel García-Margallo is radically opposed to people who are not career diplomats being appointed ambassadors. For the head of Foreign Affairs, a member of the diplomatic career is the official who can best safeguard the interests of the State and its citizens in a country. Margallo insists that the ambassador must be the main figure of a diplomatic delegation . All positions appointed by the Government in an embassy must depend organically and hierarchically on him, without exception: advisors, attachés, technicians or collaborators.
He repeats that it must be a career diplomat who exercises maximum responsibility for Spanish action abroad. Therefore, all the information of the embassy workers must pass through him. To date, the only non-diplomatic ambassador of Spain is Federico Trillo , in London, an appointment that caused a controversy between Foreign Affairs and Moncloa. Strong dispute Moncloa-Exteriores The Foreign Service and Action Law has been under discussion since last summer. Now the text is under debate in the Commission of Undersecretaries where, given the differences mentioned, they cannot reach an agreement. The departments involved are the Vice Presidency, Foreign Affairs, Defense, Treasury, Economy, Culture, Health and Justice . According to the information available to ECD, several heated disputes have occurred in the Commission of Undersecretaries , especially between the team of Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and that of José Manuel García-Margallo. Sources familiar with the inter-ministerial meetings explain that, in one of the last meetings, Foreign Affairs reproached Moncloa for betting on a political rather than diplomatic position regarding the appointment of ambassadors.