When the ambassador ceased in Belgium, Alberto Antón, wrote in his letter to José Manuel Albares that he is the only one who is harmed in the “calculated adjustments” made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs “in an embassy triangle”, the still still boss … From mission in Brussels it refers to the change of chroms that Albares has made in the embassies of Lithuania, Luxembourg and Belgium to favor Marcos Alonso, his loyal promotional companion and whom he sent as an ambassador to the permanent representation (reper) of Spain in The European Union. His wife, also the Nieves Blanco diplomatic, is the current head of mission in Lithuania and Albares would have allocated her to Luxembourg, an embassy that is one hour from Brussels, so that she is closer to her husband. José María Rodríguez Coso, the current ambassador to Luxembourg, who will occupy the Mission Headquarters In Belgium.
With these movements, Albares leaves Alberto Antón out, a diplomatic closely considered within the diplomatic career, which was several years director of the diplomatic school, “where he was very appreciated by the newly admitted colleagues,” as recognized ABC A young diplomat. “This does even more damage to Albares, for how he has treated him, seriously damaging his reputation and perspectives,” he adds. Especially since Antón had two years for his retirement, so he will now say goodbye to the race in Madrid and not in Belgium, as an ambassador.
“Outside indignation, believe me, is not precedent in the many years I have been here,” says an ambassador. In the news published in recent days, no one overlooks that Albares has played Alberto Antón to favor Marcos Alonso and Nieves Blanco, which are the origin of his cessation.
With the arrival of Albares to the Ministry, Blanco – “without curriculum or special merits,” according to a source with solvency – the Hungary Embassy came out as a cultural counselor; And from there, in 2022, he became ambassador to Lithuania. «And now the Conciliation of marriage», Esperates the same source, who says that the couple” is awaited an end of their ascending career in the race as abrupt as that of Ceaucescu marriage. ” Hence, in the corridors of the Ministry, located in the Madrid Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca, Alonso and Blanco receive the nickname of “The Spanish Ceaucescu”, “in figurative and professional sense, of course.”
And from the Ceaucescu to “the soldiers children”, which is the nick Antiquity, trajectory and merits. According to a diplomat to ABC, “they owe the minister the unexpected promotion” and “They show you dog fidelity”: “They do not dare to question any of their decisions, and become necessary links to the generalized decapitalization that the minister is carrying out.”
After “the soldiers” is the “main valid and linking in the Albariana chain”, which is none other than Diego Martínez Belíoformer head of the Minister’s Cabinet and current Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs (Seaeg).
The “loyal server of the ‘Sun King'”
“The Seaeg is Mazarino, loyal server of the ‘King Sun’,” says a diplomat who has been in Madrid for a while. Martínez Belío «is smarter than Albares, more taimado, and his necessary instrument for turn around Like a sock “, because” he sends much more in the matter of personnel than the Undersecretary, “who is the one who has been calling the ambassadors who have been communicated their cessation. Another companion of his, even more Martínez Belío’s profile: “Many of ‘Soldiers’ children are their promotion, which weaves a security network for when they come badly given.”
These two sources are currently making halls at the headquarters of the Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca. To them and other colleagues They do not lack ingenuity, grace and humor -“Much humor”-, “To overcome this dark era” and say that from the informative breakfasts of Europa Press to which Albares came on Monday, now a new expression begins to circulate that replaces, precisely, to “make corridor “And they call him” go to collaborate. ”
Another diplomatic season that is mission abroad, gives them the reason for returning to Madrid “to collaborate.” He explains that diplomats do not have “the good public image of military or police and civil guard.” “This internal protest explodes to the Minister of Defense or Interior and does not last a week,” he says. Aware of this, Albares played the other day “to face diplomats with the rest of the Ministry’s public officials and employees and also alluded to the salaries of the ambassadors, in front of their ‘collaborators’ in Madrid -which’ sweat the shirt ‘ working more and less salary– And it was oversized that in return they enjoyed the privilege of the proximity of the great leader ».
This strategy of the Foreign Minister, as another source points out, is «Pure populism of someone who has burned the ships, who knows that he has no possible return to the race, and who tries to destroy it in punishment for his behavior ». The most affected in this story are young diplomats, who “are ruining the future in a profession that enjoyed until recently a certain prestige.” A prestige that contributed, precisely, along with other members of the diplomatic career, Alberto Antón.
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