The divorce between Pablo Casado and his own management committee revealed this Monday the

terminal state of his leadership

.

Not even his hard core was capable of supporting the clumsy entrenchment strategy decided by the leader

in order to save the head of García Egea

, to whom the still president of the PP has wanted to unite his political destiny until the end. .

Both castellated in Genoa, deaf to the formidable indignation that arose from each local, provincial and

autonomous community, blind to the inexorable consequences of their successive electoral failures and their erratic course of opposition,

Casado and García Egea have not even had the ultimate greatness of assuming their responsibility with nobility and intelligence.

The nobility would have forced them to recognize the moment when leadership becomes toxic.

A systemic party like the PP does not belong to any eventual leadership but to all Spaniards who entrust it with the management of their interests at the polls.

And intelligence would have persuaded them that

Uselessly prolonging the agony only further deteriorates your personal image,

it strains relations between colleagues to the point of unbearability, deepens the party's trauma and adds difficulty for whoever inherits it to start the comeback in the polls.

It is a pity that the political end of Casado has to offer this spectacle of despair.

There is an alternative: take the floor, which Casado has always known how to handle masterfully, and recognize the situation without deceiving himself,

putting the position at the disposal of an acronym more important than his ambition and wishing his successor greater success.

The truth is that neither the deputies nor the barons nor the cadres nor the voters nor the media of the liberal and conservative spectrum believe in Casado's leadership, beyond a redoubt of loyalists who are not already representative of the general sentiment of the center-right.

A party is not a gang of friends who have grown up together and who confuse the dark cares of the organic runner with the performance of public service.

A party is an instrument of representation and government at the service of the Spanish people.

Casado's PP has not known how to govern itself,

which makes the aspiration to govern the nation and the State unfeasible.

Every minute that this stupid lock goes on, more ruin threatens the castle without altering the ineluctable end.

Casado will not be a candidate for the next elections nor will he lead the PP any longer.

The longer you take to accept it, the more difficult the personal and political damage will be to reverse.

Resisting accepting that your term as head of the PP has failed is neither easy nor pleasant.

But there is a place in mainstream recognition for those who show greatness in the inevitable goodbye.

Hopefully Casado realizes that enough of self-harming with the occurrence of a penultimate prank to survive another day.

Trying to buy time by speculating with the opening of proceedings by the Prosecutor's Office against Ayuso -an automatism that would not presuppose guilt and that in Ayuso's case would be doomed to run out in its own holder- not only will it not benefit him, but it will

receiving the applause of the left will sink him even more, will further alienate the favor of his own.

Time will have to take stock of a

clueless execution

that began by inviting Vox to a hypothetical government to end up cordoning it off, or signing Álvarez de Toledo to end up dismissing her.

There will be time to analyze the sad paradox that Casado's best decision - the appointment of Ayuso as a candidate - was then consciously torpedoed by himself not because of Ayuso's failure but because of her success.

What is urgent is that those who surround the still leader of the PP make him see reason and

explain to him that gaining a few more days until the national board is convened can only be the preamble to his withdrawal

, not the umpteenth trick to intensify the confrontation and cling to a chair in which his own electorate does not want him for another minute.

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