The new PP leader has a Cuban grandmother who still lives

Pablo Casado, the new leader of the Popular Party, talks very little about his Cuban grandmother who still lives. His grandfather, Herman Blanco Ramos now deceased, was the father of the mother of the PP leader. When the civil war broke out in Spain, he was jailed for being a union member of the General Union of Workers (UGT).

He met his grandmother Olga in 1947 in Santander. Pablo prefers not to talk too much about her grandmother out of respect for her and the trauma caused by the confinement of her husband. In any case, his grandfather died when the president of the Spanish people had 7.

Fun fact, he died being a furious anti-Franco. Married, like so many others, he is the symbol of a reconciled Spanish society that does not understand the reasons why the leftist parties persist in keeping open the wounds caused by a war in which both parties committed nameless excesses. "I would not spend a euro to unearth Franco," said Pablo Casado recently

Some time ago in an interview for Crónica, the politician admitted that barely kept the memories of his maternal grandfather because He died at the age of seven. He felt the damage the Regime did to his family. "I prefer not to talk about it so as not to worry my grandmother who is still living.It is a forgotten problem and we can not live in the rancor of the past." From her own family experience, he is in favor of "not removing" the difficulties of the bloody war. Shortages that his grandfather Herman Blanco Ramos met in his own flesh

Herman Blanco would be arrested by the police on August 13 1936 and taken to the provincial prison of Palencia.He started his way of the cross.Court of war and life imprisonment.According to Foundation Pablo Iglesias this punishment corresponded to 30 years of imprisonment accompanied by a civil ban and a total ban on punishment for a crime of military rebellion.In spite of the efforts of his lawyer to prove that Herman went alone to the Provincial Council to help any eventual ble ssés, the General Staff of the VI Division confirmed his conviction.