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The auditor, none of the big four internationals, who is in charge of the operation is already selected, and the process to make the best possible profit from the emblematic building that the PP occupies in Madrid’s calle de Génova continues. Despite everything, and despite everyone, the operation does not seem to be in a lethargy, as if it had only been a way out, and so many within the popular organization want to believe it, to turn the page of the debacle in Catalonia of the last regional elections. In the popular leadership they have in mind that this movement can be a good coup prior to the general elections, and although they do not tie their hands with the deadlines, because “everything depends on finding a replacement that makes the operation profitable”, The intention is that Pablo Casado will appear at the next general elections with his office in another building, and that there will be another balcony prepared to celebrate the presumed victory.
From outside the management of this movement they are skeptical, out of conviction, in some cases, and, in others, out of sheer desire. Not only is there the argument of the possible economic ruin of a bad step, but also, above all, the political reason, which suggests that former presidents Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar would be upset, especially the latter. In itself, although there is a solid economic reason behind it, “the headquarters is too big and expensive”, what makes it an electoral shock, as they argue within the popular leadership, is that getting rid of it would be like a total exorcism of the demons of the past, that is, of everything that can still link this PP with the corruption cases of the Aznar and Rajoy stages, and that is still dragging through the courts. The resistance against the authority of the PP of Casado was greater before than now because the pulse has been gradually gaining by the new team, which, having overcome the mortgage of the landing in the direction, opted for this rupture as the only way out to be in a position to regain that vote of the center-right that they were losing at the cost of having abandoned the banner of regeneration and the management of the Governments of Rajoy. “We are not the same nor can we be identified with the same.” The phrase comes from the current popular Steering Committee, and between the cost of Aznar’s anger and the advantages they see to free themselves from the weight of «Genoa», in the popular leadership they have no doubt that the road is going in the second direction.
When they announced the decision to leave Genoa there was already a hint of rebellion from some of the most historical referents of the PP, of which the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is the largest representative and the one who continues to have the most power internally. The justification was that it had not been consulted, and that this decision had to go through the corresponding management body. But the audit begins to work, the evaluation of buildings began some time ago, and, if everything goes well, the popular leadership intends that this move is part of the electoral pre-campaign of the new PP. It would be a continuity of all the decisions that have been adopted since they came to command of the party to “clean” his face and raise a new organization chart more than the profile of what Casado represents.. In itself, what this means is that they have sought it is a party of “pawns” that grow in this new stage, and that do not come mortgaged by the relations with the previous directions. A table of charges that represent a generational renewal, although in the speech they have more to do with the Aznar who left the Government than with the Rajoy who maintained an update of the shift to the center of his predecessor.
On February 16, after the debacle in the Catalan elections, Casado announced that the party would leave the headquarters to break with the past. He argued that they could not continue in a building whose reform was being investigated by the courts, alluding to the trial that began then for the payment of those works with the supposed box b of the party. The PP then opened a contest for a company to help them with the transfer, without news so far. The Valencia Convention has not brought any programmatic novelties, but it has given a boost to Casado’s leadership and authority within its ranks. The national leader also has the support of the provincial structures, renewed in the congressional process ahead of the one that has to affect the autonomous communities. The provincial leaders should be your army, in case you have to go into battle without the support of all your barons.
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