The way that Pablo Casado is choosing abandon the presidency of the Popular Party it is tarnishing the little respect that its militants, its leaders and its voters or sympathizers might still have for it. This agony can not respond to anything other than a personal calculation, a way to buy time for what or who is not known. It is in any case an error, one more error, a blunder. It may be understandable that Casado wants to buy that time to expose the one he elevated to the presidency of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has made use of this crisis more typical of a populist leader that of an aspiring to lead one of the parties that can govern in Spain. That thirst for revenge is politically unacceptable because Ayuso’s dalliances have done nothing but take advantage of Casado’s mistakes, not create them.
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