Pablo Casado, new head of the Spanish PP

The heir of Aznar defeated Rajoy's heiress. Pablo Casado (Palencia, 1981) is, from this Saturday, the new president of the PP and future candidate of the party at Moncloa. Casado won a bigger than expected victory with 1,701 (57.2%) of the 2,973 votes cast, compared with 1,250 (42%) of Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. The deputy secretary has so far imposed on his rival after adding to his candidacy to candidates who did not pbad the first primary court: María Dolores de Cospedal, José Manuel García Margallo, José Ramón García Hernández and Elio Cabanes.
His victory anticipates a right turn: during the campaign, Casado proposed measures such as the return to the 1985 Abortion Act (badumptions) and the call for a specific convention on principles and values ​​to rearm ideologically the party.
"We must all be at the right of the Psoe," he said in an interview with El País. "Someone who is not proud of his past can not aspire to lead the party.I am José María Aznar, Mariano Rajoy and Manuel Fraga," he said yesterday in his speech to delegates, after defending conservative policies "without complex" on "life and family". "The PP is back," he said after taking the stage as the winner of the primaries.
In his first speech as president of the party, Casado opted for a new "contract with Spain" and "reform the penal code" to fight the secessionist challenge related to what he Calls "Spain's balconies" (by flags). One of his campaign proposals was to ban pro-independence parties with the philosophy that prevention is better than cure.
Casado showed a conservative ideological profile in issues such as euthanasia, abortion and family, and emphasized again and again the anti-sovereignty speech. Criticized during the campaign Operation Dialogue of his rival, knowing that, by extension, supposed to criticize also the direction of Mariano Rajoy, that this Friday affirmed in his speech. The new leader of the PP wanted to get rid of these reproaches by praising this Saturday the "firmness" with which the former president had "taken up the challenge". He also rejected that "being a woman" was "a merit" or an "electoral argument" and that is the opinion that was imposed on the PP Congress.