The choice of the road for Spanish conservatives – News – Corren.se

The approximately 3,000 party ombuds gathered at the PP Congress were to vote for Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, the Mid-Oriented, or the most conservative social Casado, who finally won.

First woman

It was early in the summer that PP and his prime minister Mariano Rajoy lost power to the PSOE after a mistrust. The background was a major corruption scandal that hit PP for several years.

Sáenz de Santamaría, 47, was Deputy Prime Minister of Rajoy and wants to continue on his center line. If she had won, she had become his first female leader.

Pablo Casado, 37, also worked near Rajoy as a spokesman for the former government. But he wants the party to take a step to the right.

Among other things, he questioned free abortion and he wants to be tougher with the separatists of Catalonia. He also hosted conservative profiles such as José Antonio Ortega Lara, who left the PP with dissatisfaction with what he perceives as a midnight sledge

With distress and nephew

PP is the largest party in the Spanish Parliament, with 134 out of 350 places. The PSOE has only 84 seats and managed to take the power of PP by assembling a fragile alliance of small parties in support of the June 1 declaration of suspicion.

However, before the next elections, PP is pushed by the growing support of the biggest voters, the relatively new part of Ciudadanos.