Casado will avoid Ayuso in the protest against the changes of the ‘gag law’

The relationship between Pablo Married and Isabel Díaz Ayuso is so tense that nothing flows naturally. “The PP turns in support of the State security forces and bodies and against the reform of the ‘gag law’. Casado will be in the big demonstration on Saturday in Madrid“, announced with great fanfare the spokesmen of the party leader last Monday. However, at the end of this Thursday that participation was not 100% assured. Yes that Ayuso plans to attend, on the other hand, who informed before that the leader of the ranks who would attend that concentration.The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP); the top leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and the president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas.

“Married he will do his best to attend. The demonstration will begin at 11.30 am in Puerta del Sol and will end at 2.30 pm at the earliest in Plaza de Colón. He will be in León first thing in the morning and, later, he will travel to Madrid and try to arrive to greet the police and the civil guards, “explained a spokeswoman. official reason why he cannot be there from the beginning and take the proper photograph with the organizers and with the rest of the political leaders is because he wants to coincide with Alfonso Fernández Manueco, the president of Castile and Leon, on Saturday at a meeting of provincial presidents of the PP in León. This act, organized by the party itself, was called before the demonstration itself and the agenda of the conclave is obviously marked by the PP. It lasts two days, Friday and Saturday, and Casado plans to participate both days.

The unofficial reason: avoid coinciding with Ayuso, with whom he is waging a full-fledged power struggle for control of the PP in Madrid. According to sources familiar with the party president’s agenda, Casado’s team has weighed the pros and cons of arriving at the same time as she (and Abascal) at the concentration of police and civil guards. The ‘clap meter‘could play a bad move to the leader of the PP. The screams of “president, president” they are being repeated in all the events he attends, including the weekend meetings in which Casado also participates, received with less enthusiasm. In addition, in this case, there is the circumstance that the convening association is JUSAPOL, a radical platform that has been gaining weight in the State security forces in recent years in the heat of the growth of Vox. “So are you going to leave the whole gap to Abascal?” asked some sectors of the party that are critical of Casado for not closing the crisis with Ayuso. Both comrades in the ranks have not publicly met since last October 19. In the last two internal congresses there have been (Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia), the program has been organized in such a way that they do not have to see each other.

With “institutional charge”

The president wants to show her support to the organizers and her advisers will specify this Friday how their participation in the event will be. One of the proposals is that he make a statement at the beginning of the demonstration and then no longer stay on the march to Colón, out of respect for his “institutional position”.

At the national headquarters, meanwhile, they try to underline the significance of the meeting between Casado and the provincial presidents in León. “They are our shock forces in the territories. This is the first time we have brought them together. We have to see how we transfer to citizens the three main problems they have: inflation, the rise in the shopping basket and the electricity bill, “they report from Genoa.

In Casado’s team, formulas are being sought to prevent the next regional congresses (the one in Aragon plays in December and the one in Castilla y León, in January) from being used again by Ayuso to stage his clash with the party’s top leader . Since March, when she called the early elections in Madrid, and especially after the 4-M triumph at the polls, the president of the Community of Madrid has become an asset demanded by all the barons to lift the spirits of their bases.

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The malaise in the party and in the parliamentary group is obvious. “You can not stage the differences in this way every day,” lamented a deputy this Thursday. “Lowering the ‘cyclone’ Ayuso is not only counterproductive for the party. It is a waste of time for Casado,” a baron warns this newspaper who does not want to appear with his name and surname.