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The former president of the Junta de Extremadura, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, surrounded himself last Saturday in Badajoz with the

to celebrate a special event: his 75th anniversary.

Or, rather, more than the former socialist baron, the one to blame for Felipe traveling from Guadalupe (Cáceres), where he

, or for Guerra doing it for the occasion from Cádiz was the honoree's wife,

, who secretly carried out all the preparations for the event, to surprise the man who was Extremadura's president for 24 years on such a special date.

Raquel, director of the Fundación Centros de Estudios Presidente Rodríguez Ibarra

, also had as

organizers of the event Ibarra's daughter, the result of her first marriage to Leonor Godo, who died in April last year, and also her granddaughter of the ex-president of Extremadura.

The honoree did not know at any time that he was going to have a surprise party and only discovered the guests when he arrived at the Las Bóvedas hotel at noon, near the border with Portugal.

FEW ACTIVE POLITICIANS

Around 25 people were invited to the birthday, most of them relatives of Rodríguez Ibarra and politicians who are no longer active, such as the aforementioned former president and former vice president of the Government, as well as Francisco Fuentes, former senator, former provincial secretary of the Badajoz socialists and Ibarra's right-hand man for decades.

Another attendee was Francisco Castañares, former General Director of the Environment and

, as well as President of the Association of Forestry and Environmental Companies, and of the Association of Friends in Defense of the Monfragüe Natural Park.

Those of Bildu seem more repugnant to me than those of Vox, because they have not killed

The only active politician at the party was

, Ibarra's successor at the head of socialism in Extremadura, and with whom the old baron has had a clear disagreement in recent times with respect to the follow-on policies that Vara has with the Pedro Sánchez's policies, especially with the concessions to the pro-independence parties.

For example, in an interview on the

network a few weeks ago, Ibarra -known in his public career for confronting nationalisms- did not hesitate to denounce: "

.

He also said that "I would not agree with Bildu because they are the heirs of ETA and I do not want accounts with the independentistas, they are insatiable", in addition to criticizing the elimination of the crime of sedition and the reform of embezzlement.

of Fernández Vara has been heard in this regard

and that is hurting certain sectors of socialism in Extremadura.

In any case, last Saturday was not a day for reproaches and, although above all they talked about football (the fervor for the colors of Barcelona predominated), there was also time for coffee, already seated (lunch was standing and tapas base of typical products from Extremadura), to address current national politics and the concern they feel for the future of Spain and, in turn, the drift of the PSOE in this

legislature .

It also did not go unnoticed by those present that, after so many years of personal disagreements, Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra met again at a meeting of friends for almost the second consecutive time in just over a month.

The previous one occurred on December 14 in a well-known restaurant in Madrid on the occasion of a dinner where approximately

were seen for dinner in full internal convulsion of the PSOE due to the pacts with the nationalists. and the governance agreements with Podemos.

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