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Public employees who provide services for the vice president of the Executive must go, from Monday to Thursday, to classrooms set up in Moncloa where language classes will be held. The schedule will be at noon and the duration will be approximately two hours a day. The teachers in charge of teaching the lessons are natives of Anglo-Saxon countries . They will be the ones who travel daily to the Ministry of the Presidency to teach classes to one hundred public employees. Sources consulted by El Confidencial Digital assure that this initiative is being well received among officials. So much so that, in addition to the Presidency, six more ministries are adopting the same measures so that their employees improve their level of English: Defense; Treasury and Public Administrations; Economy and Competitiveness; Education, Culture and Sports; Foreign Affairs and Development. As this confidentiality has learned, the company in charge of teaching the classes to the workers is the Aula Intercultural SL language school . This company is the one that has presented the “most economically advantageous” offer, as published on the official website of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations. The cost for the Government to teach its civil servants English is 22,320 euros. It is a budget slightly lower than the maximum amount stipulated in the contract: 26,040 euros.
Mariano Rajoy has already fully returned to work after the Council of Ministers on Friday and the meeting of the Executive Committee of the PP on Monday. Gone are the days of rest in the Pontevedra town of Ribadumia and in the rural house where he Special Database stayed with his wife and his children. The stay of the president and his family was very discreet, beyond the security device that accompanied them, and did not cause much of a stir in the town of Ribadumia. As those responsible for the rural accommodation have confirmed to El Confidencial Digital , after Rajoy's stay ' A casa de Alicia' has not received more reservations than usual on these dates. In September, reserves drop again, just like other years From the rural house they explain that in September vacation activity always tends to slow down , after the high season months (July and August). This year, despite the visit of the President of the Government and the exceptional media presence of this establishment, the drop in the number of customers has occurred again. In this regard, it is worth remembering that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero 's vacation in the summer of 2008 in the Asturian village of Santa Eufemia caused a small controversy about the rural house in which he stayed. As ECD reported then, some users of Internet forums on rural tourism criticized the establishment's management for taking advantage of Zapatero's visit.
According to complaints expressed in this forum, prices skyrocketed after the president's visit to the house. Neighbors happy with security Those responsible for 'A casa de Alicia' believe that Rajoy's stay in Ribadumia went well and that, in general, the residents of the town were “very happy” with the presence of the President of the Government in their town. As they explain to ECD, the inhabitants of Ribadumia did not regret the security measures that surrounded the president. On the contrary: the neighbors felt safer with the police device that was established on the occasion of Mariano Rajoy's vacation in the town's rural house.In recent weeks, a debate has been generated between the party led by Mas, CiU, and ERC around the sovereignty consultation. Esquerra rules out establishing a minimum participation in the elections for this consultation to be binding, but the team of the president of the Generalitat is committed to putting a figure for that participation. At first, the percentage stipulated to validate the referendum was around 50% of the population. However, the figures considered by some members of the Mas Government, such as Vice President Joana Ortega, defend a minimum of 67% citizen participation to approve the consultation. Mas's new political strategy to win votes Sources consulted by El Confidencial Digital link this new requirement in the approval of the independence referendum to a political strategy led by Mas himself: “He wants to delay the consultation to gain time and recover in the polls.