The burning boiler that the PP has begun to release air to find an alternative to Paul Married. Territorial leaders from all over Spain are already organizing themselves to force the calling of an extraordinary congress and elect a new leadership. Although the ordinary conclave should be held in July, a part of the organization understands that Married and his team can’t continue in front of the direction not a minute more. The damage to which they have subjected the acronym, they assure this newspaper, has crossed all lines. “Half the party” participates in this operation.
The fear that Pedro Sanchez can bring forward the general election to liquidate a PP that “is bleeding to death” at the polls, has led this bloc to regroup around the figure of Alberto Nunez Feijooas a great “authority”, practically the only one, that currently exists in the party.
Different sources from the PP at the highest level in various territories confirm this operation to get Casado out of Genoa “as quickly as possible”. Since Thursday afternoon, which was one of the most embarrassing days in the history of the formation, with the leadership of the PP and the Community of Madrid, with a clean shot, leaders from all the territories are exchanging calls to promote the extraordinary congress.
national board of directors
These conversations continue to fine-tune the procedure, but the idea is to wait for a National Board of Directors to be convened in the coming days and demand the celebration of the conclave. The Board of Directors is the body empowered to convene it. The sources consulted by this newspaper assume that the leadership of the PP will refuse and a vote will be necessary. They are also considering that Genoa refuses even to set a date for a board meeting and thus avoid the possibility of requesting the congress. If that happens, they are also determined to force an extraordinary National Board of Directors. The statutes include the option that a majority of members demand the convening of the two bodies even if the party president is opposed.
The calls around this idea occur in all the autonomous communities and lead to the same conclusion: “The spiral that has been reached is unbearable & rdquor; and there is no other way than a congress as soon as possible. Some communities look with special concern at the civil-war scenario and, above all, the absence of a respected leader in the militancy. They recognize that the majority of the affiliates surveyed in their provinces do not support the leadership and give their support to Isabel Díaz Ayuso in this battle. “Nobody understands it for months. How can you attack the most popular leader at the moment like this?” different positions of high responsibility are asked. There is a general feeling that the president of the PP is “totally questioned” by the militants.
“It is not enough to sacrifice Egea”
Casado left the president of the Community of Madrid on the verge of influence peddling, fully endorsing the version of his secretary general, Teodoro Garcia Egea, to which the barons (with some exceptions such as the Murcian Fernando López Miras) have been pointing to for a long time. “Now it seems that it is no longer enough & rdquor ;, explain some leaders, despite not ruling out that Casado “keeps that bullet & rdquor; if he sees himself “completely drowned & rdquor ;. Some sources consider that the popular president should drop it this very weekend and exhibit his “bloody corpse”. But that, they warn, will not prevent the request for an extraordinary congress.
The point is that in all the territories they already have the polls will begin to accuse the internal battle in the coming weeks andemen that a tie with Vox is seen, or even that in some polls the surprise can be visualized. On Andalusiathe risk is total with elections to be held throughout the year, although Juanma Moreno Bonilla consider delaying them as much as possible.
On Castile and Leon, the formation of the government that will begin to be negotiated in the coming days is also affected. And some leaders support even more the possibility that the socialist leader decides to anticipate the anticipated general elections if, as everything seems to indicate, a pact of Alfonso Fernandez Manueco with Vox within its Executive. “More ammunition to Sánchez. And we are in a state of decomposition & rdquor ;, they reflect.
In this context of orphanhood and with the possibility that the PP will once again lose all its options in a complete electoral cycle, the possibility of ‘the Feijóo path’ opens up. “A white horse, a political and moral reference, which has stopped Vox in its community and has accumulated four absolute majorities & rdquor ;, explains a veteran leader. There are not a few who reflect on why the moment of the president of the Xunta could not be in 2018. But they also recognize that at that time “a peace option with experience and possibilities was not so necessary & rdquor; as it is now.
Feijóo as a solution
“We all see Feijóo as the solution now,” says another source, although they acknowledge that the candidate’s option “has not been addressed”. The most urgent thing is to promote the departure of Casado. Both he and García Egea are blamed for having a “adolescent behavior”. “Throughout these years he has failed to understand that teams are not made with your friends.” The indignation with Casado is very broad, both in the cadres and in the bases. “I was never going to win the elections but after these days, even less.”
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The PP thus assumes that it was wrong with its election, unrest runs through even the territories that supported it in congress. It is not a movement in favor of Ayuso but against Casado. “The PP has sunk”. Some yesterday, after Ayuso said that his brother has received 55,000 euros for a contract with a successful bidder from the Community of Madrid, and not the 283,000 euros attributed to it by Genoa, they think that this is the end of the game: “A president who accuses his main regional president of being corrupt without evidence is impossible to save.”
On Thursday night, after one of the most disastrous days in the party’s history, Casado spoke with his barons. But 24 hours later not a single one has come out in his defense. There have been no gestures of support for the national president. Feijóo himself, in an interview on ‘EsRadio’, pointed to an extraordinary congress as an emergency solution if the wound that has been opened in the PP cannot be closed. But, in view of the opinions collected by this newspaper, right now no other solutions are being considered than ending Casado’s mandate. The machinery is already at full capacity. Some sources point out that the solution – that the extraordinary congress be convened – can be closed this week.