It’s over. Everything falls apart. Pablo Casado is cornered by a clamor in the PP to call an extraordinary congress and leave. The leader of the PP has been left alone entrenched at the head of the PP after his brutal internal war with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, which has ended up devouring him. The support of the leader of the opposition is in disarray: all the territorial power has turned its back on him, as well as the majority of the leadership of the parliamentary group and its steering committee. Casado resists in silence along with a small group of faithful on Génova Street, but not even they are sure of continuing. Everything can be precipitated in a matter of hours, the most bitter for the popular politician.
At least 14 of the 17 territorial leaders of the PP will ask him this Wednesday at the meeting to which he has summoned them to hold an extraordinary congress as soon as possible and to be replaced as president. The majority of the board of directors of the popular parliamentary group, with the absence for the time being of the spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, has issued a statement calling for the holding of that congress in the face of the “extremely serious” situation in which the party and urging the immediate resignation of the Secretary General, Teodoro García Egea. The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, has resigned as spokesman for the national executive. Casado’s support is now reduced to a handful of faithful: his number twoEgea, the Deputy Secretary for Organisation, Ana Beltrán, the Deputy Secretary for Communication, Pablo Montesinos, and the Deputy Territorial Secretary, Antonio García Terol.
Casado’s intention this morning before the cascade of casualties in his supporters was to resist. The popular leader began by sending out the message that he was not leaving, and certainly not as the barons asked, with an immediate resignation and the convening of an extraordinary congress. Casado therefore summoned the territorial power of the party for Wednesday to prepare the decisive meeting of the National Board of Directors next Tuesday, where the proposal to hold a congress will be debated, according to sources close to him. At tomorrow’s meeting, Casado will face off with the regional presidents of the PP, many of whom have risen up against him: among them, the five presidents in office, led by the Galician Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the name that is invokes the party as a solution to this crisis. Not so with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who is left out of the call because Casado calls the presidents of the party and she is the only regional president who does not also have organic power. The dispute over the PP in Madrid is the origin of this serious crisis, and Casado has continued to maintain the pulse until the end with his main internal enemy.
Casado feels that he is suffering an unjust coup d’état because he has not done anything wrong, they say in his entourage, beyond expressing his doubts about a case of alleged corruption of a colleague, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in which he believes he is right. Anti-corruption has opened an investigation this morning into the contract involving the brother of the Madrid president.
That’s why Casado wanted to hold on. The leader of the PP transmitted last night to his followers that he wants to, although in his circle they admit that he goes day by day and this morning, before the cascade of casualties, he was assessing whether or not he would present himself to the congress that he has promised to convene. Casado has a clear conscience and close sources defended early this Tuesday that “he was elected by primaries in an extraordinary congress, and neither the directors of two newspapers nor 5,000 protesters, summoned by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Vox, nor some presidents summoned They are going to kick him out for Ayuso”. He wanted to measure forces; for that he kept taking steps and weighing support, convinced by his number two that it was possible to resist with their soldiers throughout the territory. But everything has changed in a matter of hours.
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Events have taken a turn and the Casado and García Egea tandem have lost their entire army. Related territorial leaders, such as the one from the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, and the one from Murcia, Fernando López Miras, have changed sides. The case of López Miras is very significant, because he had a relationship of maximum trust with the secretary general. They were friends, but this is politics. The clamor is practically unanimous: Casado has to leave and convene an extraordinary congress. All eyes are on Alberto Núñez Feijóo to assume leadership.
The situation is very unstable and no scenario is ruled out, including the resignation of the president and a manager assuming the reins until the congress. The messages from Casado’s environment so far have rejected that option. For now, at tomorrow’s Wednesday meeting, the main protagonists of the internal clash will face each other, if it finally occurs, except Ayuso, and those who have pressured the party president to convene an extraordinary congress. The appointment will be key to clarify the support that Casado has, although the decisive meeting is that of the National Board of Directors next Tuesday, which is the one that will vote on the convening of the congress.
Casado attended on Monday the rupture of his hard core and the revolt of four of the five regional presidents of the PP. The steering committee, his team of 13 faithful, broke down in a meeting of more than seven hours and forced the leader to convene the National Board of Directors of the PP, the body authorized to launch a congress, within a week. With this decision, which allowed him to buy time, he escaped the pressure of some of the main barons of his party, who demanded his immediate resignation. The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, called on Monday for an “immediate solution” to the “situation of collapse” that the PP is experiencing. Ayuso called for an “absolute turnaround” in the match, and this Tuesday he spread a message on his social networks in which he warned that he was going for it all in the internal battle. “The presumption of innocence has been stolen from me; to my family, anonymity and my team, so many hours of honest and serious work. I will not stop working so that the Community of Madrid remains at the top and my party in Madrid is renewed from the foundations”, he warned Casado.
Despite the collapse of their support, Casado and his circle believed early this morning that they could resist with the support of other leaders who vote in the National Board of Directors, made up of some 400 members. “Casado has the bases of the party, which are not the barons, but the provincial and local presidents,” they pointed out in his environment. Two thirds of this body are necessary to force the convening of an extraordinary congress. The leader agreed with the steering committee to defend the holding of a congress, but not that it be extraordinary. Hence the immense pressure this Tuesday to accept that the conclave be as soon as possible.
Throughout this morning the leader has not stopped losing support like an incessant drip. In the popular parliamentary group, until now Casadist deputies are making public this Tuesday their request for an extraordinary congress. Several of them are of Galician origin, such as Ana Vázquez, Javier Bas or Marta González. The Galician key is very important, because Núñez Feijóo is considering whether he will finally step forward to lead the game and put an end to the Casado era, for which everything indicates that he has very little time left.
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