Pablo Casado is playing his political future as president of the Popular Party in the next few hours. The open crisis with (or by) the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has placed her in a limit situation. Discounting the inevitable departure of Teodoro García Egea as Secretary General, he himself is in a critical situation, without clear allies, including the territorial leaders outraged by the management that the national leadership hahahacho has taken on this matter. The result of this concatenation of errors is devastating: the formation is literally wide open.
“The party is in 'shock'”. This is how the barons see the "critical" situation of the Popular Party at the moment. The alarm has spread throughout Spain
, and the territorial directors denounce that Genoa is not listening to them, according to regional sources consulted by ABC. If solitary confinement persists, the regional presidents, those in power and those in opposition, are struggling to organize a meeting among themselves to present their proposal to the national leadership to overcome the crisis, which would be more of a demand , and what would happen, for the time being, through the immediate departure of Teodoro García Egea as general secretary.
Some regional leaders, however, go further and see an advance of the national congress, initially scheduled for July, as the only way out. The concern is maximum, it is that the regional, municipal and general elections are held at the beginning of a year and a half and the party has entered a very dangerous decomposition. Therefore, direct attached to the field have taken the initiative. They are not willing to let another week go by for the problem to be investigated and the party to continue "bleeding to death."
Pablo Casado has spoken with all the barons "with command in the square"; that is, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, Juanma Moreno and Fernando López Miras. He has explained the situation to all of them and has asked them, above all, for unity. With Isabel Díaz Ayuso he met the day before yesterday in his office, according to sources from Genoa revealed yesterday and later confirmed from Puerta del Sol.
no dialogue
However, among Casado's calls there were not many territorial leaders, including regional presidents of the other opposition party, who have seen that they have not been heard. Nor has the general secretary or anyone from the national leadership called them, and they have been watching with absolute helplessness in recent days how the crisis is precisely destroying the credibility of the party. "This is much worse than Bárcenas or Gürtel, they have ended the credibility of the PP in two days," criticizes one of those barons in the opposition.
They have not received calls from Genoa, but they have been in permanent contact with each other. With 17 provincial presidents, coordinated among themselves, and with a key power and influence to get out of this internal crisis. Since Wednesday night dozens of calls and messages have been exchanged between them, and they have come to the conclusion that Casado must provide a quick solution, and that it must include the departure of García Egea, given the "extreme weakness" of the political he. "It's not that we have anything against him, but it's like in football, when a team doesn't work, the coach is changed," he said in the sources consulted.
These regional presidents want Casado to listen to them. They are in permanent contact with the street and with the affiliates, and they are verifying the unprecedented danger that this crisis is creating. "People do not get out of their astonishment, there is a lot of concern," they say. One of the barons emphasizes that among all those with whom he has been able to speak these days, "95 percent are with Ayuso, and 5 percent with Casado." "It's a big problem, the game is getting out of hand," they warn, in a tone of utmost concern.
But the crisis does not stop there. If Casado does not attend to the demands of this president that he listen to them, they are willing to meet among themselves, in a kind of territorial summit without Genoa, to agree and present their joint proposal, which would require an immediate solution from Casado. And that solution, according to the sources consulted, cannot be other than to make dismissals, among them that of the secretary general, without rejecting other types of measures.
limit on tuesday
The “lieutenant colonels”, as the regional secretaries define themselves, have also taken the initiative. After having maintained various contacts throughout the week, with meetings and telephone conversations, they have reached an agreement and have issued a warning to the party's national leadership: if a National Board of Directors is not convened on Monday or Tuesday to propose the date of the next national congress they will begin to collect signatures to put pressure on Genoa, as popular sources have assured ABC.
“The important thing is that the congress is convened now, Casado has had all the opportunities in the world. Our we are bleeding and a tourniquet is not even put on ”, they assure. This is the opinion shared by the majority of the general secretaries of the popular throughout Spain, who forcefully assure that "this ultimatum has been sent to the national leadership". "And so far we only have silence, we have no more news."
If this meeting of the National Board of Directors is not convened, they would begin to move "on Monday or Tuesday, without fail, collecting signatures to request the convening of the congress and apply the statutes." “We will move as necessary to convene the congress, which will bring forward the one in July, or an extraordinary one, call it X, and give it the last name you want. Nothing to wait for July; we are bleeding”.
"Either Casado convenes the congress next week or we are going to convene it with the statutes in hand," the popular sources who are already mobilizing affirm with indignation. “He has had many opportunities to make changes” to his team, they insist.
He believes that Pablo Casado should not appear at that congress: “How are you going to go to a congress? He cannot go, although he and the one who meets the requirements can present himself. In the opinion of the sources consulted, the ideal person is Feijóo: “Everything has to be done. The important thing is the congress and the other steps will come next».
“Everyone in the world has the bases more than alarmed. There are municipal groups that want to meet to ask to be removed from the party and become non-attached councillors. We are not realizing the seriousness of the situation. Those who are sitting on the seventh floor of Genoa have no idea what we are experiencing, ”she comments in astonishment.
These sources affirm that what is happening now is the result of "drops that have been filling the glass of absolutely crazy decisions and actions that have been taken in provinces and autonomous communities."
