The Casado-Ayuso war worries the Catalan PP


“It is the most ‘heavy’ situation that I have seen in 20 years as a member, and by far”, is how a leader of the Catalan PP summarizes the open war between the national leader, Paul Marriedand the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusowhich worries the Catalan leadership, which had already launched the electoral machinery for the 2023 municipal and that now he sees “with great concern” that this battle will leave them even more affected at the polls.

There is a clear discrepancy between the bases and the leadershipbecause nobody wants to bother Casado, but then everyone wants Ayuso to go to their municipalities, “summarizes another voice from the formation. And therein lies the key, it diagnoses the direction: knowing how to calibrate between the organic accolade and what the affiliates feel, immersed in a public and mediatized brawl every minute. “Deep down, everyone knows that there can only be one left: either Casado or Ayuso“, settles another source, very concerned about the fact that all this leaves the party “internally divided and electorally sunk.”

Silence and complicity

The leader of the PPC, Alexander Fernandezis a faithful squire of Casado and, at the same time, an adversary for the secretary general, Teodoro Garcia Egea. A voice from the party, consulted by this newspaper, summarizes this situation as an “oxymoron” due to the ticket that Casado and Egea represent, for which they predict that there will be a pulse. The PPC congress is scheduled for November, as marked by the regulations, and not before as was rumored. “The future of the party will be decided there,” says another leader.

Fernández propelled Casado from Catalonia to the presidency of the party, despite the fact that most of the cadres were inclined to Soraya Saenz de Santamaria or by Maria Dolores de Cospedal. And he had his reward months later, when he was elected leader of the Catalan leadership. But the poor results of the Catalan elections on 14-F, after a campaign marked by a landing of party charges and the statements of the former treasurer Luis Barcenas, began to erode Fernández and many point to Egea as the ideologue of a possible ouster. This was stopped with the appearance of the then mayor of Badalona Xavier Garcia Albiol in the Pandora Papers. But now, in the midst of the war between Casado and Ayuso, it resurfaces.

Fernández’s silence on the training crisis collides with the public and hasty pronouncement of the provincial leader of Barcelona, Manuel Reyesand of Albiol, giving a boost to Casado. “Everyone has their sympathies and complicities, but there are those who are more tied to say or to remain silent. All this needs to be smoothed out.“, replies a PPC source.

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At least Fernández has already been able to calm another reason for internal turmoil: eve parera. The one who was the right hand of Manuel Valls in the city council of Barcelona she takes a step to the side and leaves the act as an independent deputy for the popular ones to grow her own brand, valentines. This Friday, at a press conference, he will show his goodbye.

But in the resignation another headache may come: the next on the list is Daniel Serrano, who had been secretary general of the PPC and a deputy in the Parliament, separated in January 2021, in the middle of the pre-campaign for the Catalan elections, after EL PERIÓDICO revealed that he had been charged with sexual assault on a fellow party member. Eduardo Bolaños, Fernández’s chief of staff, would be next on the list and who would pick up the credential if Serrano resigned.



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