For months the PP was plunged into a hidden war. The environments of Paul Married and Isabel Diaz Ayuso they maintained a confrontation that escaped all logic. The party clamored for an agreement that would end the bloodletting of votes that was beginning to be detected, while the popularity of the president of the Community of Madrid remained intact. The electoral movement of 4-M —“an unstoppable mass phenomenon” as they warned in Puerta del Sol—it has not stopped growing for a single day and this Thursday it was noted in dozens of internal party chats after to explode a conflict that has no possible return.
As El Periódico de España has learned, mayors of municipalities spread throughout Spain (with more than 20,000 inhabitants) began to light the fuse against the national leadership. “They can’t do this to Ayuso. We want a extraordinary national congress&rdquor ;, could be read in one of the WhatsApp groups of councilors from all over the country. Chats of militants and affiliates from different autonomous communities (and especially from Madrid) were scorched by messages of support for the president.
Different mayors of large municipalities in the Community recognize that what happened is “a before and after & rdquor; and that all eyes are directed at Casado himself. “It is no longer Theo. He is directly married. All limits have been exceeded and people ask us for explanations. Our bases, our voters are with her&rdquor ;, different prominent Madrid officials coincide.
Spontaneous calls were added to the cadre conversations to gather at the door of the Genoa headquarters. There is another demonstration scheduled for Sunday with the sole objective of showing support for Ayuso. While in the environment closest to the president they claimed to be receiving bouquets of support flowers, a large funeral wreath appeared on the door of Genoa with a message that read: “Paul Married. We will always remember you”. The anecdote went viral and shows the general feeling within the party.
“We are devastated. We no longer recompose this & rdquor;. The reflection is repeated among councilors, mayors, deputies and different organic leaders and leads to the same point: the wild schism to which not even the most veterans find a possible comparison. The accusations between Ayuso and the national leadership have reached maximum levels. The president of the Community reproached a “cruel & rdquor; against her and denied any shadow of corruption by pointing the finger at Casado himself. She urged the party leadership to show “evidence & rdquor; and she assumed that the only objective of the party was wear it down, discredit it and prevent him from presiding over the PP in Madrid.
Even though he acknowledged that his brother, Tomas Diaz Ayuso, charged a “legal & rdquor; after having mediated with a company to obtain a contract with the Community of Madrid In the worst moments of the pandemic, the Madrid president claimed to have learned all the information from Casado himself months later in a meeting they held in his office. Right after Teodoro García Egea, number two in the match, returned the ball to Ayuso’s roof, assuring that on October 20 there was a second meeting in which they asked the president to provide all the data she had and, above all, they demanded absolute transparency.
Genoa insists that they have not heard from the case again and that for this reason they launched the procedures provided for in the statutes. This Thursday the party opened an informative file to the president for the “almost criminal” accusations. against Casado and the formation reserves the right to take legal action.
In the Puerta del Sol they make it clear that in the past months the PP has been pressuring Ayuso with the contract related to his brother to force him to resign from the presidency of the Madrid PP. After the elections in Castilla y León (for which both parties signed a kind of truce, weaker than expected) everything has exploded again.
At the moment relations are completely broken and the party holds its breath. To the public support campaigns of the two sides is added the pressure of the militancy and positions of all conditions that affirm that they want radical changes in the leadership of the party. Prominent mayors also acknowledge in private that it is “impossible” keep everyone in their place. They point to García Egea, although many are already talking about Casado “Her days are numbered”.
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The only resignation that has occurred so far has been that of Ángel Carromero, the ‘plumber’ par excellence from Genoa, a man of Casado’s complete confidence and until now employed by the Madrid City Council together with José Luis Martínez-Almeida. The general coordinator of the Mayor’s Office at the Palacio de Cibeles left office yesterday afternoon after information from ‘El Confidencial’ that points to him as being responsible for the alleged espionage of Ayuso’s entourage (his brother, his ex-husband and his ex-partner). he). There are recognized leaders Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo who have publicly called for Casado’s resignation as president.
In Genoa they deny the possibility of these resignations and prepare to resist while prominent barons like Alberto Nunez Feijoo he claimed to see “unheard of & rdquor; and “unforgivable” spying on the president of Madrid. The PP is completely broken and eyes are directed to the possible convening of that extraordinary congress, although the leadership continues to indicate the planned calendar: the regional conclaves in this first half of the year and in July the national one will play.