The leader of the PP vindicates his work and expresses his “loyalty” to the one who is called to be his successor
Pablo Casado delivered this Tuesday one of his last speeches as president of the PP before the party’s national board of directors. In it he has given his full support to the candidate called to take the reins of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but he has not said goodbye without claiming his legacy or regretting the treatment he has received due to the internal war after the crisis with the Madrid president, Isabel Diaz Ayuso. “I think I do not deserve it, nor would any of us deserve it,” the conservative leader stressed about the events of recent days that asked him to step aside.
The still top leader of the PP has assured that he does not conceive of politics “without the ethics of responsibility” and has defended that “we must always put the difficult option before the comfortable one, and our principles are useless if we do not stick to them in the most complex moments. A veiled allusion to Díaz Ayuso, who did not attend the meeting of the executive committee, although he did attend the subsequent meeting, where he was the first to intervene in the round of questions and answers.
Casado has claimed to have “a very clear conscience, full of gratitude, without rancor or frustration” and to have put the interests of the party before his own at all times. He insisted on “happiness” for having represented the popular organization and having been part of the history of Spain, “alongside Fraga, Aznar or Rajoy.” He also wanted to highlight how proud he is of the work of all the barons, positions and parliamentarians who have accompanied him, «especially Alberto Núñez Feijoo who has always given me his loyalty and friendship, the same that he will receive from me for what decide to do in the future.
The popular leader has wished “all the luck” to his successor, in addition to “great success in his efforts” and “all the success to arouse the loyalty and support that he will undoubtedly need.” “Mine,” he said to those present, “will be the first, with the utmost prudence and discretion.”