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The president of the PP of Gipuzkoa and spokesman in the Basque Parliament, Borja Sémper , has decided to leave the policy, so that in the next dates he will resign his public and organic positions.

Sources from the nearby surroundings of the Gipuzkoan politician have confirmed Sémper's decision, who will explain his motives in a press conference he has convened at noon Tuesday at the headquarters of the PP in San Sebastián.

The popular leader of Gipuzkoa has already communicated his plans to the president of the PP , Pablo Casado, before making his decision public today.

Borja Sémper Pascual (Irun, 1976), graduated in Law from the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), has been a member of the Basque PP since he was 17 years old and acceded to his first public position in 1995, when he was elected councilor in Irun ( Gipuzkoa), a town in which, as of 1999, he was deputy mayor and delegate of Urban Planning.

Basque parliamentarian since 2003 , became a spokesman in the Basque chamber after the 2013 crisis that ended with the abandonment of the policy of the former president of the Basque PP Arantza Quiroga.

In 2009 he was elected president of the PP of Gipuzkoa with about 95% of the votes and since then he has led the popular Guipuzcoans with hardly any opposition.

After trying twice to become a deputy in the general elections of 2015 and 2016, in which his party did not obtain representation in Gipuzkoa, Sémper last year headed the list of the PP to the Mayor's Office of San Sebastián and managed to keep the 3 councilors he had , in a context of general regression of popular candidacies.

He currently serves as spokesman for the PP in the Basque Parliament , councilman in San Sebastián and president of the party in Gipuzkoa .

During the PP congress in July 2018, Sémper, like all the leadership of the party in Euskadi, supported the candidacy of former PP vice president Soraya Saénz de Santamaría , who was defeated by the current party leader, Pablo Casado.

The discomfort of the Basque leader in the new Casado PP has not gone unnoticed and has been evidenced in several public encounters, such as the one that arose when the PP Executive imposed the candidacy of Íñigo Arcau z in the general elections.

Sémper was also upset with the statements made last September by the spokeswoman for the PP in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo , who criticized the alleged "lukewarmness" of the popular Basques regarding nationalism and questioned their commitment to forality

" It has cost us blood, sweat and tears to defend the Constitution and an idea of ​​plural Spain in the Basque Country and probably while some walked comfortably on fluffy carpets we played our lives defending here the Constitution and coexistence," he replied Then the Basque leader.

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