Pablo Married neutralized the offensive. The president of the PP will continue to be president of the PP until the extraordinary congress that will foreseeably enthrone Alberto Núñez Feijoo on April 2 and 3. Married has not resigned despite pressure from nearly all his barons to do so imminently. In return, he has promised not to run and has asked the Galician leader to do so.
The head of the conservatives summoned this Wednesday in Genoa at the last minute to all the regional presidents of the PP, a way to be able to leave Isabel Díaz out Ayuso, who does not have the reins of the party in Madrid. The statements that the leaders made to the televisions at the entrance drew a married harassment operation, with insistent requests to step back. The meeting with everyone began almost at 8:45 p.m., after the head of the popular group had spent an hour and a half alone with Feijóo.
Esteban González Pons will chair the organizing committee of the extraordinary congress
round with everyone
The appointment, according to some of the witnesses, began with a brief introduction of Married. He said that, after having heard the opinion of the Galician president, he wanted to know how they all saw the situation. Three were missing, the leaders of Catalonia, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. Some took their time and interventions lengthened. Several, according to sources present, expressed their conviction that the best thing was that, at the end, Casado announced his resignation, although it was consolidated on Tuesday, in the planned national board of directors. They considered that it was the best way to close the serious crisis that the party has been experiencing since the war between Genoa and Ayuso broke out with serious crossing of accusations.
Casado refused to resign at dawn “as if he had done something wrong.” He wanted “an honorable exit”
However, the PP leader resisted. He did not want to leave in a hurry and running his charge at dawn, “Like I’ve done something wrong.” explain sources of his team. Married endured the pulse and managed to reach an agreement to continue as president in exchange for making it clear to everyone that he wants Feijóo to be his successor. The palentino politician wanted “an honorable exit”, sources around him said. And she got it. “Forcing him they can’t force him,” sources from his team said as the meeting progressed.
Gamarra and Pons
In the joint statement, which was made known to the 1:20 a.m.Casado’s commitment not to attend the next national congress, to continue in office until the conclave is left in writing and there are also two key names for transition: Cuca Gamarra and Esteban González Pons.
Gamarra, current spokesperson for the PP parliamentary group in Congress, will be the general coordinator, a way to separate Casado from day-to-day management. That position is a position that has already been used in the past in the party. she occupied it Fernando Martinez Maillo in the last stage of Mariano Rajoywhen Maria Dolores de Cospedal she was the general secretary and also defense minister.
González Pons, an old acquaintance of the house, now an MEP, will chair the congress organizing committee. The barons undertake that this new body is made up of at least a member appointed by each Territorial organization.
At the exit, the tone of the barons’ statements was much softer. The president of the Andalusian GovernmentJuanma Browncelebrated that the PP has finished this episode in a way “reasoned and sensible with the crisis”. “Pablo Casado does not have to resign, he entered a congress and therefore it is up to him to leave in a congress,” he continued. He was one of the first to speak out and was surprised by the change in attitude, which he continued with many others. The president of the PP in Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Nunezacknowledged that the meeting had been “very intense”, but was equally satisfied for having achieved unanimity to solve the crisis in a party that he has described as “united, strong and solvent”.
It seemed that the barons wanted to forget everything said and written on social networks during the last days in which deputies, senators and high officials from all over Spain have urged Casado to step aside as soon as possible.
In “organ collapse”
And what did Feijóo say, the future leader of the PP (if there are no surprises)? Well, he explained that his colleagues have encouraged him to present himself, but that he will say so when the congress is convened. Not before, because you have to respect the times. He also launched a phrase that Married “He is a gentleman of politics”, shocking, at least, after the president of the Xunta has been key in the speed of events.
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After the war unleashed on Wednesday of last week by Ayuso’s accusations to Casado that his team had spied on her to look for dirty laundry, and the response that they suspected that his brother (Tomas Diaz Ayuso) had collected €280,000 in kickbacks, Feijóo moved fast. The Galician leader urged the leader of the PP to close the crisis. Or if not, he pointed out, he would have to ask for an extraordinary congress to unseat him, which is what has happened.
According to the Galician leader, the PP was in a situation of “organ collapse” and in an environment of “enormous social disaffection” and, at the meeting, the barons managed to rectify it.