It will be tomorrow afternoon in Genoa and Núñez Feijóo is expected to attend. Díaz Ayuso will not attend as he does not preside over the training in Madrid
Pablo Casado is determined to resist, at least for now. The leader of the PP has summoned the presidents of the regional party in Genoa tomorrow afternoon after the epileptic day on Monday to address the call for the congress and the agenda of the board of directors. You already know the position of the territorial leaders because, after agreeing on it last Sunday, it was transmitted to them by the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo: they want it to separate and for there to be an extraordinary conclave.
Last night, after remaining entrenched for nine hours next to his hard core at the Genoa headquarters, Casado finally used his powers to convene the highest body between congresses of the conservative formation with one item on the agenda: the debate on the national conclave that can be ordinary, as the popular leadership wants, or extraordinary, within a period of 30 days, as the barons request.
Most of its leaders -all except Pablo Montesinos, Antonio González Terol, Ana Beltrán and number two, Teodoro García Egea- demanded this call and some of them threatened to resign if it was not called. The appointment would be set for Monday 28, but the complaint of the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, coinciding with his community party, could force it to be postponed for a day.
Gain time
Feijóo, erected again as a referential spokesman in the face of “the collapse” -as he himself defined it- that grips the PP, had publicly requested a “final decision” from Casado in the morning. What was interpreted as an appeal for him to resign and give way to an emergency congress to replace the ordinary one set for July, in order to stop the bleeding and seek a revulsive with a new direction.
But Casado not only does not resign for now, but he is cast. The convocation of the national board of directors becomes a challenge so that the barons and the rest of those who intend to overthrow him without dissimulation impose that extraordinary congress on him, showing him, incidentally, the exit from Genoa. The party’s statutes provide for this forced conclave if the board of directors so decides for two thirds of all the positions that the body brings together: more than 400, although party media confirm that they rarely exceed two hundred. And the vote, if it takes place, will not be secret.
Despite the fact that internal pressure has grown in the last few hours, the president of the PP plans to give battle after verifying that he has majority support from provincial and regional presidents. “With this he only buys time,” they say from different territories, who do not rule out that those positions that now show him loyalty could change his vote at the moment of truth.