The Putrid Party (PP): Mendacity, Corruption and Abuse of Power

The official spokesman of the PP, Pablo Casado accept that corruption scandals as grotesque as Punic "affect" damage the entire party credibildiad. Casado assumed that the PP now "embarrassed, disgusted and ashamed" to "behaviors such" as reflected in the recorded conversations of the Punic case.

The Steering Committee of the PP, who chaired yesterday Mariano Rajoy again for more than two hours, again analyze the situation in Catalonia, without deciding anything new about resources or activities of the Government or the State Bar before the permanent escalation of statements, nor without nominate its candidate for the upcoming elections in that community. The PP is still the only party with a presence in the Catalan Parliament without candidate. Rajoy last referred to what he said about 13 Genoa and the party headquarters did not know what to say or have firsthand week. Therefore, the PP devoted his weekly strategy meeting to confirm what their electoral moment and plan some actions to take from this Friday the next presentation of the draft general state budget.

Surveys of various media, yes agree that a slight sag or fall on their good data can few months ago but vary greatly in their consideration of Citizens, is and will be the same ideological competitor in the field of PP . On the PP and the PSOE surveys collected some recovery, which puts them both parties in a scenario of a tie though far below the usual rates so far. The PP, in some opinion polls work, began to recover own voters who had deserted them in recent times path of abstention or citizens.

PP strategists conclude that if again convinced a million of those abstainers voted potential before they could weather the storm and not lower than 150 seats in the general elections that Rajoy would convene later this year. The plan is that citizens reap about 30 minutes and can repeat Government.

But last week the secrecy of the investigation of the Punic case arose, conversations, recordings and very coarse talks leaders of the PP in Madrid, former mayors, implicated in charges of money and suspected awards were discovered, and voters have become to doubt. During the weekend also the national leaders of the party and the president himself have maintained a deafening silence on Monday and wanted to issue a forceful reaction to sound. Casado both as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Relations, José Luis Ayllón, deputy spokesman at La Moncloa, underlined that it was not strictly produced silence and Rajoy government but "respect" for the legal proceedings underway.

Casado recognized that corruption was one of the problems of the PP and it was "obvious" that does not benefit them and generating "some wear" even if only on past cases and have not been registered new complaints. In this aspect also he grabbed Ayllón to comment that the government prefers to wait to see just how judicial proceedings initiated. Both speakers stressed that in Spain now "there is no impunity and that makes pay" with the new measures and legal reforms approved by the executive, which nevertheless stated that they are still in the early stages of implementation and a little green.

Ayllon went further and slid several times before, presumably with socialist governments in power, "nor well researched, and many cases were known" and supposed that was because "someone is dealt with officers to cover and prevent it would mean for them to meet and investigate and now, however, they are being investigated. "

The official spokesman of the PP said that the new leadership of the party and most of their positions, "working 15 hours a day, no weekends and just see the family" bothers them more than anyone else's performance these militants and leaders who take advantage of their advantage stands and regretted his behavior as "general feeling" of all training. Casado announced that in the coming hours the PP of Madrid, which owns or in which millitaban many of those involved, will open a file and proceed to his expulsion. The meeting will occur Wednesday and actually either the national or the PP of Madrid know yet specify how many charges or affect affiliates.

The Spaniard right l today, yesterday and forever.Mariano Rajoy has chosen this time to move their chips in the Catalan electoral board. Alicia Sánchez-Camacho incinerated in the crematorium of low politics, Rajoy has decided to withdraw from the ashes still president of the Catalan Popular Party in the cemetery of the Senate. In fact, the confidant of the Camargue long ago there was a reserved place. The tandem Xavier Garcia Albiol / Andrea Levy (bad cop / good cop) is the only game that Rajoy has tried to prevent the party that currently governs l'Etat remains in a ridiculous position that Parliament can decide disconnection of Spain. It is not clear it out.

The right cleanly Sapniard always had a space for political action in Catalonia. Has often been represented by people from the military or connected in their family with the Spanish army. The high civil servants of the state, has also been a source for generating abundant in Catalonia advocates a conservative idea, "national" nationalist Spanish. These distinguishing features can be found even now in the biographies of some of the current leaders. But we are talking about a political community that comes from far away, which was already noted in the late nineteenth century when the Catalan fought and made close the Voice of Catalonia. They, with the invaluable assistance of the Regionalist League Francesc Cambo dominated the political Catalan during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (between 1923 and 1930).

In the Republic the right Espanyol had a singular political expression: the party of Alexander Lerroux. The Lerrouxist were very active in Catalonia but did not achieve representation in parliament in 1932. A year later, Lerroux became president of the Spanish government and from Madrid, became hostile policy against the Catalans and the Government. During the long dictatorship of General Franco, the Falange and the National Movement were the refuge of a handful of Catalan political regime delivered in body and soul. In the transition, having opted for transfers directly from the Franco regime, as Eduardo Lopez Rodo or Tarragona, Manuel Fraga was finally able to mount a Catalan delegation stable Alianza Popular. That's when the current scene retroministre enter the interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and all those who have succeeded at the helm of the Catalan PP to date.

The Spaniard right in Catalonia redraws the challenge now historic 27-S. They also aim to cover the maximum possible electoral field. From the extreme right in the center. The former mayor of Badalona Xavier Garcia Albiol is ultra candidate. For something more refined public trusts the compensating effect of the number two, the new "smile regime," the ascendancy Andrea Levy, Deputy Secretary of studies and programs of the Popular Party, which takes office in Genoa 13 Madrid. The legacy of the Lerroux defend Ines Arrimadas -83 years afterwards, the candidate "soft" presented by Citizens. 27-S exceeds all bounds of what officially expressed constantly both games of the Spanish right, the old and the "new" politics. But they continue to insist "are just some regional elections."