The leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, said goodbye to Congress this Wednesday before his planned departure of the leadership of the party, the main opposition group in Spain, after a harsh internal crisis caused by a confrontation with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
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Casado arrived in Congress this Wednesday for the traditional control session of the Government amid great expectation, after losing the support of the regional leaders of his party, the deputies of his parliamentary group and the bases in the last few hours. .
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Until now, the leader of the PP asked his question to the Prime Minister, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, and took the opportunity to affirm that, for him, politics is the “defense of the noblest principles and values, respect for opponents and dedication to colleagues”.
The calendar wanted the session to be held on February 23, the anniversary of the 1981 coup attempt, when a group of civil guards, supported by some soldiers, took over Congress with the intention of reversing the newly launched democracy in Spain. after the Franco dictatorship.
Casado, on this anniversary, defended a democracy built with “courage” and from “concord and reconciliation” and asked the Government to “put itself at the service of the general interest” because it is due to the Spanish and “no one else”.
Sanchezwith whom in recent years he has had harsh debates, he wished him “the best personally” “from the difference and the political discrepancy” and took advantage of his speech to announce that he will not advance the general elections, scheduled for the end of 2023, as some sectors speculated.
Without making use of his right to reply, the until now leader of the PP left the chamber with the applause of the deputies of his group, the same as yesterday, by majority asked him to abandon his position as president of the PP and convene an extraordinary congress of the match. Casado said goodbye turning to his deputies with his face uncovered, without a mask and waving.
After a week in which the war between the PP leadership and the Madrid president has broken the party and plunged it into a major crisis with just over a year to go before the general elections, Casado left the Chamber, although he did not announce his resignation for the time being.
After the act and prior to announcing his resignation, Casado is expected to have a meeting with the regional presidents of the Popular Party, after convening the XX Congress of the Popular Party, extraordinary, as a way out of the crisis in the formation.
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The conservative Popular Party (PP), main opposition force in Spain, will elect a new leader in an extraordinary congressin the midst of a deep internal crisis aggravated by several resignations in the leadership of the party, led by Pablo Casado.
The resignation this Wednesday of the until now general secretary of the party, Teodoro García Egea, confirmed by sources of this formation, and the call of the board of directors, the body that must launch this congress, was demanded by more and more voices within the party , as leaders of Pablo Casado’s own leadership, regional barons of the PP and heavyweights of his parliamentary group.
García Egea was pointed out as being responsible for the internal war between the national leadership led by Casador, although he has less and less support in the party, and the president of the regional government of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who even accused him, without naming him, of orchestrating an operation to destroy it.
Last week it transpired that the national leadership opened a file on the regional president for a contract in favor of a company related to her brother, although it was later closed in the midst of a harsh exchange of reproaches between Díaz Ayuso and García Egea, with accusations of possible espionage by the party itself to the regional leader, but now it is the Prosecutor’s Office that has started an investigation.
Since then, critical voices have been added to Casado, who this Tuesday finally convened the national board of directors for next Tuesday, March 1, to launch the XX congress of the PP, of an extraordinary nature, according to these sources.
EFE
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