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Casado (1981), currently responsible for the communication of the PP, beat the other candidate, the former Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, according to the official vote result, said Efe .
In particular, Casado obtained 1,701 votes against 1,250 votes for his opponent.
The new leader of the Spanish right center arrives at Mariano Rajoy, who decided to leave the presidency of the PP and politics after being expelled from the government on June 1, when he lost a motion of censure of Socialist Pedro Sánchez.
Among other challenges, Married will have to keep the party together, renew it and regenerate it to win the next general election – scheduled for 2020 -, break out of opposition and re-govern the party. 39; Spain.
Before he will face the 2019 regional and municipal elections, which will be used to check whether the new leadership of the PP rectifies the electoral course of the party, which has lost three million votes in recent years.
After being proclaimed president, Casado is committed to the integration of the party, to the unity of Spain and to the "true political regeneration".
The list of names proposed by Casado to elect the members of the National Administration Council with 1,689 votes was also the winner, compared to the 1,251 obtained by the candidacy of Santamaría .
She and Casado were first and second in a previous vote of the militants held on July 5 in which four other candidates were eliminated.
Confident in the triumph, the two presumed before this congress to have the support of various former Rajoy ministers and the majority of delegates, which was resolved in the vote today.
In the midst of increasing tension between the two candidates, Santamaría proposed to his rival to join the congress on a single list led by it, which Casado rejected.
Rajoy, chairman of the PP since 2004, has not opted for a candidate faithful to the commitment to remain neutral in the process.
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