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The latest discreet message that Mariano Rajoy has received from the United Kingdom about Spain's dispute with Gibraltar has greatly reassured him. Furthermore, in relations with London on the affairs of the Rock there is a main interlocutor who has been very little known until now: Vice President Sáenz de Santamaría. As El Confidencial Digital has learned from diplomatic sources, Cameron has a very clear position on Spain's conflict with the British colony , even though he does not openly express it in public. He has come to inform Mariano Rajoy, in one of the last telephone contacts that they have maintained, and that the head of the Spanish Executive also has regularly with the rest of the European leaders, that the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, "must be taken seriously what is fair and necessary . ” Picardo is not going to be able to cloud relations According to the sources consulted by ECD, this message has reassured Rajoy, after Cameron himself has also guaranteed him, in those hand-to-hand conversations, that relations between Spain and the United Kingdom "are not going to be clouded by differences." that the Spanish authorities can maintain with those of the Rock.
But Moncloa has been warned, from Downing Street, that Picardo can generate a situation of tension at the least expected moment , and that therefore the Spanish Government has to be prepared to resolve these specific and unforeseen problems. Discreet Phone Number List dialogue between vice presidents The diplomatic sources to which ECD has had access also reveal that in the dispute with Gibraltar, Spain has a privileged dialogue with the United Kingdom , a fact that Mariano Rajoy's Executive has handled with the utmost discretion. The dialogue is the one maintained by the vice presidents of both Governments: Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and Nick Clegg , due to the “very good relationship” that they have forged for some time. They assure that fluid communication between the 'number two' has been key in some moments of tension, such as in the crisis last summer , which was triggered by the launch by Gibraltar of concrete breakwaters in the bay of Algeciras that prevented fishing for several weeks to the Spanish fishermen, and with complaints from the Rock about the controls of the Spanish Police in La Verja .
The telephone conversations between the vice presidents, during those August days, were crucial. And their subsequent contacts have become “regular and very cordial” to make progress in resolving conflicts. Clegg's wife, the 'Valladolid connection' As explained by senior diplomatic officials with whom this confidentiality has spoken, who are aware of the conversations between Madrid and London about Gibraltar, both senior officials “connect wonderfully” also thanks to the Valladolid roots of the wife of the British deputy prime minister, who coincide with those of Sáenz de Santamaría, also from Valladolid. Nick Clegg is seen every summer in the streets and bars of Olmedo (Valladolid), accompanied by his wife, Miriam González, and their three children. His wife's mother lives in this town, and that is why since 1992, the year in which he met his wife in Bruges (Belgium), he has always spent his summer rest time in this municipality . It is the key, they say, to the “special connection” between both vice presidents.