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There is pre-election storm surge in the PP. The expectation of the repetition of the elections has reopened the internal wound of the party, which now suppurates by three vertices: Galicia , the Basque Country and the Congress . But, in the background, what suffers is the leadership of Pablo Casado.

The popular spokeswoman in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has entered the fray today against the president of the Basque PP , Alfonso Alonso, who ironic about his preference for Spain rather than Argentina in the final of the Basketball World Cup . "I have nothing against Argentina," he joked, in relation to the spokeswoman's accent. "I was very surprised that a staunch anti-nationalist gentleman like Mr. Alonso can qualify me as a foreigner," Álvarez de Toledo has lamented today, at the start of an informative breakfast for New Economy Forum .

On Thursday of last week, in the hours leading up to the internal conclave of the Basque PP, Álvarez de Toledo denounced the "lukewarmness" of Alfonso Alonso's people before nationalism and the "failure" of the project. The response was equally hard, by the president of Guipúzcoa, Borja Sémper, and former president Vizcaya of the PP, Antón Damborenea. Semper criticized her on Friday: "While some were treading soft carpets, others were playing our lives," he said. And Damborenea warned that "who knows neither History nor the Constitution cannot be a spokesperson for the PP".

Sémper spared no strength in his dialectical encounter with Álvarez de Toledo, and described her as "painful" to question her commitment to the defense of the Spanish Constitution and asked her to apologize for what she considered a mistake. "She owns her words and represents herself," he said, trying to separate her from Pablo Casado.

This Monday, Álvarez de Toledo has not only not apologized, but it has caused them to refer to her in personal terms: "I have no comments to make about the 'ad hominen' disqualifications. I have never played attacks' ad hominem '. I think we have to discuss politics, but never personal matters, "the parliamentary spokeswoman criticized.

Casado sources have assured that the national leadership is the one that "leads" the orchestra when a section is challenging, and that the PP is not "federal". That is to say that the "soloist" Álvarez de Toledo acts on behalf of Genoa and not only of herself. Of course, Casado recognizes the "personality" of his party in Euskadi, and in his environment they blame the "mistake" of Álvarez de Toledo on a "semantic debate" about the forality.

"I will continue working for what has been called Spain Suma, the regrouping of people who think differently," said Alvarez de Toledo, who has not ruled out a great future coalition with the PSOE: "It is a very important question that we will have a lot time to analyze long. "

At the insistence of the journalists, the 'popular' leader has insisted in her regret for the 'fraternal' criticism: "I have said exactly what I wanted to say, but I was really surprised that I am qualified as a foreigner in my own party" . "It had never happened to me that they compared me with Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. It's a novelty," he added.

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