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"Let people see that we have things clear," insists Pedro Sánchez.

Miquel Iceta serves himself a coffee: "I want to appear as I am".

Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and even the parents of the President of the Government appear in the docuseries

The Four Seasons

, which began its recordings last February, plans to conclude them in March of next year (hence its title) and has shown its first images in a 'screening' that EL MUNDO has attended.

"This is not an assignment", assures Eduardo Escorial, director of Unscripted Content at Secuoya Studios, which produces this project together with The Pool, with Víctor Martín as Production Director and prime mover behind this work: "We thought it was the right time To attack this idea, we met with Secuoya and from there he contacted the President's Cabinet led by Óscar López".

Production sources acknowledge that López was the "gateway" and of course he is among the protagonists of this narration passed by the BOE this month, where it has been collected as "an exercise in transparency in accordance with the democracy of the 21st century ".

Curro Sánchez, director of

The Four Seasons

, explains: "We have characters from the president's entourage but also all kinds of workers. We have covered the ushers, the waiters, the chef who has been at La Moncloa since Adolfo Suárez...", in total 2,700 employees of the presidential complex, although the head of the Executive inevitably monopolizes all the protagonism.

The premiere will foreseeably take place in an election year, with general elections as well as municipal and regional elections.

The creators assure that any incursion related to the PSOE has been laminated from the recordings, which focus on Moncloa.

However, other events can be seen, such as the NATO summit in a tour of the Prado Museum, where US President Joe Biden jokes about his fears that the team will stay in Spain after the visit (a delegation which exceeded a thousand people, actually).

French President Emmanuel Macron and the (already former) British 'premier' Boris Johnson are also present, a few centimeters from the camera and its microphones.

The war in Ukraine has changed the pace of this project backed by the Government, which has the opportunity to showcase negotiations such as those held in Brussels to obtain the approval of the European Union for a cap on the price of gas in Spain and Portugal, in a European Council in agony that opened the way to the so-called Iberian ceiling.

"Von der Leyen can help you a lot," instructs one of the president's 'sherpas' ahead of the meetings, while alerting him to German reticence in this regard.

The Chief Executive concludes the exultant appointment.

"Teresa is delighted: 'I'm holding my breath,'" Pedro Sánchez himself imitates the energy vice president.

"The president has tables," the director of the documentary responds to this newspaper, asked about the naturalness (if any) of the president being followed so closely by the cameras.

Secuoya and The Pool will try to place this work on private platforms and channels and take it for granted that public channels would not be the appropriate windows to show this day to day.

The BOE has made explicit the agreement for "a season of two episodes of approximately 45 minutes each, with the producers having the right, but not the obligation, to record a second season of two others".

However, those responsible for 'The Four Seasons' hope to produce a total of four with the recorded footage, always within this legislature and with Sánchez's La Moncloa.

The relationship between Netflix and Secuoya, the production company that has attracted the global streaming giant to its studios, has generated the assumption that this platform will acquire the rights and offer the work to its subscribers, something that producers deny today : "Netflix has not bought it, nor has it seen it nor has it shown a particular interest," underlines Escorial.

Escorial and Martín have exposed that the red lines of the project have been "the meetings of the Council of Ministers" once they begin, as well as any appearance or mention of "the president's daughters".

Of course, Sánchez's parents appear (and also his wife, Begoña Gómez) on the occasion of the birthday of the chief executive, who was born on February 29, in leap year.

That circumstance will occur again in 2024. By then, La Moncloa may or may not be his residence.

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