“I have always told the truth, no matter what it costs, whoever will be in my face, I will face you”

Pablo Casado will leave institutional politics in the coming days. This was confirmed this Friday in his farewell speech (read, to everyone’s surprise) on the first day of the XX National Congress of the PP presidency, which will elect its successor, Alberto Nunez Feijo, on Saturday. He addressed her as a sign of her departure from the front line she has been in since Mariano Rajoy appointed her as Deputy Secretary of Communications: “Thank you for your offer to continue working with you. But as we have said, I think the best thing to do is to step aside to leave my seat in Congress and any responsibilities in the PP.

Cassado offered his last appearance as PP president, a month after party barons forced him to resign after losing to Isabelle Diaz Ayuso in an open civil war by a company paid to the Madrid president’s brother. Pandemic with its regional government. A period he himself called “bitter” and which began with a “sense of injustice”, as he said before the National Board of Directors in early March, but which he “soon overcame with deep gratitude”.

The outgoing president defended his legacy and directly mentioned the partial reshuffle of the right around the PP acronym and the “fight against corruption”. A hint that is difficult to distinguish from his confrontation with Ayuso, especially when he said in mid-February: “When 700 people die a day, can you give your sister a contract and 286,000 euros?”

“We moved from the third force to the first and left it at the gates of La Moncloa,” he said, taking into account the polls that put them behind Ciudadanos in 2019 and now competing for PSOE victory. “who surprised“They will absorb it,” he said of the party led by Ines Arrimadas. “And to those who tried it later, we made everything clear,” he told Vox.

Cassado also defended its internal management. “this time False news“After reading and hearing so many lies that we say or do, the truth becomes revolutionary,” he began. And I can say that I am very proud of that. You should never be afraid to say what you think or do what you want.

I support Feijo

Married, as he did in his last interventions, he chose Feiyo as his successor. “From today we are opening a new stage in the party and I will be the first to support it and support a good manager, a good politician and a good friend to me,” he said. He added: “Dear Alberto, you can always count on me, wherever I am, what you need and what can be useful. At the same time, I maintain the Castilian prudence and prudence that I have always shown, and that a Galician like you knows how to appreciate in the face of noise.

At the end of the speech, Cassado left another message that can be interpreted internally: the least important are the people and our aspirations: first is our party and first and foremost is Spain. I have understood this all my life and I have always put common interests before my own. ” I told you four years ago that I came upstairs, my hands white, my pockets clean and my heart in love with Spain. “So I’re giving up today,” he concluded.