The renovation was imposed in the Spanish PP | Pablo Ca …

Pablo Casado was elected yesterday president of the Spanish People's Party (PP, center right) and defeated the other candidate, the former vice president of the government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. "The future is not expected seated.The future will conquer," said the new chairman of the PP, in his last speech to delegates.

The Popular Party started the road to recover the government of Spain almost two months ago when its leader Rajoy was expelled from the government after losing the parliamentary motion of censure. From Rajoy, badumed the Socialist Pedro Sanchez, current president of Spain.

Married yesterday got 1701 votes, 57 percent support, compared to the 1250 votes (42.04 percent) that Rajoy's former right hand received. Married, 37, will lead the PP before the general election to be held, at the latest, in the middle of 2020.

Congress delegates were elected in an internal in the six candidates for leadership of the party. , two weeks ago, and from where came the two most voted lists for this conclave. Sáenz de Santamaría won this first certification with 37% of the votes against 34 for Casado. In the midst of growing tensions between the two candidates, Santamaría proposed to her rival to join the congress on a single list led by her and rejected by Casado. For its part, Mariano Rajoy, chairman of the PP since 2004, has not pronounced in favor of any candidate, true to his commitment to maintain neutrality in the process.

"If I did not win anybody, today nobody did it, only the PP won," were his first words as the new conservative leader. Married will replace Rajoy, the last leader of the PP in the last 14 years, who left the party presidency on June 1st. The verdict of the corruption case Gürtel, a network that splatters the party, determined Rajoy's exit from the government, and then resigned to the leadership of the party.

In his two speeches before the Extraordinary Congress, Casado captured the basic lines of what is awaiting the PP: a renewal of names and image and a return to the more conservative and traditional values ​​of the party for the purpose to regain an absolute majority like that enjoyed by Rajoy in his first term.

"I have just communicated to the boss of the Royal House your decision, and pbaded on our loyalty to the Constitution and King Felipe VI." A protocolary way of announcing, not only the change of reins in the party, but also the decision to maintain intransigence with Catalan separatism, an unresolved crisis, which began with the Rajoy government, which intervened in Catalonia after the unilateral declaration of independence.

"I do not want to comment on what's happening in Spain, I mean what's going to happen in Spain, we have to go back to the head of this society, we deserve it, the People's Party is back. "(19659002) However, Casado will be given the task of keeping the party together, renewing it and regenerating it if he wants to win the next general election scheduled for 2020, in order to get out of the opposition and re-govern Spain before that date will have to face the 2019 regional and municipal elections, which will make it possible to see if the new leadership of the PP rectifies the electoral course of the party, who has lost three million votes in recent years

Casado, who belongs to a new generation of Spanish political leaders, defines himself as a "liberal conservative" and maintains a speech in favor of life and family. after being proclaimed president, is committed to the integration of the party, the unity of Spain and the "true political regeneration". He also announced that he will boost tax cuts and criticized the law of abortion legalization promoted by the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He also mentioned the link with Latin America and was inclined to make Spain a non-permanent member of the Pacific Alliance. Finally, he claims the leading role of the country in the European Union.

Born in 1981, the young man becomes number two in the PP's communication structure. Before the fall of Rajoy aspired to receive his blessing to compete next year for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid or the city of the Spanish capital. When the case of the fake master of the time President of the Community, Cristina Cifuentes, for which she had to leave his post, Groom was also in the eye of the storm because in his CV there is a master's degree

a few months ago The same thing as Cifuentes and in the same house of graduate studies, Rey Juan Carlos University. Married admitted to having approved this master's degree in local and autonomous law in 2008 without having taken a course. Then there were doubts as to his law degree, which he would have obtained expressly. The Cardinal Cisneros Higher Education Center denied that there were any irregularities.

The new president of the PP lawyer and economist; He started in the party in the hands of former government president José María Aznar (1996-2004), considered his mentor and later became one of Rajoy's trusted leaders. He joined the PP in 2003 and was president of New Generations (youth of the party) between 2005 and 2013. In 2015, with Rajoy, jumped to the national leadership of the PP, first as spokesperson of the election campaign of the municipal and regional elections of May this year and was later named as head of the party's communication-spokesperson zone.

Sánchez, chairman of the government, congratulated the winner of the election on Twitter. "Congratulations to Pablo Casado for his election as head of the PP, a courage in the task ahead," said Sanchez.