Close to josé blanco consulted by el confidencial digital , the psoe 's 'number two' is in permanent contact with the president of the generalitat, josé montilla. Both speak mainly through mobile phones and those who know them assure that the relationship between the two socialist leaders is “good.” after the ruling of the constitutional court, blanco and montilla , according to the sources consulted by this confidential, have had at least two private meetings, alone. In them, the sources consulted by ecd add , ferraz's 'number two' has polled montilla about his prospects after the sentence, trying to bring positions closer together and establish a common strategy between psoe and psc .Sources from moncloa consulted by el confidencial digital have justified their non-attendance at the traditional rodiezmo rally in which the president of the government has a long official trip through asia at the end of august, which will make it impossible for him to be present at the mining celebration, which is taking place in the first week of september. Rodríguez zapatero plans to make an official visit to china and japan.



At the end of august he will leave for shanghai , where the world's fair is being held, and then he will go to japan, a trip that will last at least a week. According to the sources consulted, this makes the presence of rodríguez zapatero in rodiezmo on Special Database september 5 impossible. Zapatero is a regular guest at the rodiezmo meeting since he was elected general secretary of the psoe in 2000. There, together with the general secretary of the ugt , cándido méndez , he usually begins the political course with the announcement of the revaluation of the minimum pensions for the next year. The rodiezmo mining festival will be held on this occasion less than a month before the general strike that ugt and ccoo have called for september 29 in protest against the labor reform. Last wednesday, in the state of the nation debate , the president said that he would go to rodiezmo "For many more years", when asked by the opposition leader, mariano rajoy.As el confidencial digital has learned from sources close to zapatero, this is how the president has designed his plan to defeat mariano rajoy for the third consecutive time: -- the key, the budgets .







The socialist leaders consider that the most important thing to win the elections is to move forward with next year's accounts. It will be the toughest battle they will have to fight in the coming months, and on which all members of the government, as well as the socialist parliamentary group, will focus their efforts. -- to approve the 2011 accounts, the psoe relies on the support of the basque nationalist party . They know that it will not be an unconditional endorsement, and that the formation of íñigo urkullu , from whom the pse has taken power in the basque country, will make things very difficult in congress. -- the government has an ace up its sleeve to win over basque nationalists: active employment policies . Zapatero's entourage reserves this asset until the time comes to negotiate the budgets, and then it will be offered. They will not be transferred before, since euskadi is the autonomous community where the crisis is hitting to a lesser extent and they are not considered an urgent need either. -- the executive, therefore, will negotiate with the pnv the yes to the 2011 budgets in exchange for the effective transfer in terms of employment.