SUMMER Pablo Casado: few vacations between Navas del Marqués, Mérida and Elche
A group of young people cuts the Paseo de la Castellana.
They carry flags of Spain and seek to shake the streets of Madrid to protest about the concessions that the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero is making to the ETA terrorists.
A very young Pablo Casado, president of New Generations in the Community of Madrid, is
the leader and organizer of the protest
.
They all follow him, shout the slogans he has devised and take photos with the other members of the youth organization.
"It was very combat
i
vo
, had a very good leadership
, apart from presiding over Madrid, he was the leader of the liberal arm of New Generations ", recalls for LOC a former secretary general of a district of Madrid of New Generations who coincided with Casado, and to whom he is linked by a personal relationship. Little remains of that leader. combative and forceful in his answers. Only his group of friends, who grew up with him in New Generations and who reached with Pablo
responsibility levels
in the direction of the PP never seen before.
"Casado has preferred to put people he fully trusts
keep experienced people,
It is true that this can weigh him down, but it is also true that he shows his loyalty, "continues the same person, who asks not to reveal his name. One of Pablo Casado's most trusted people is
Teodoro García Egea.
They met at a youth training congress, when the Murcian was deputy secretary of training for his region.
He is now secretary general of the party.
"The problem is that you enter with an illusion and, if you stand out, they give you intermediate positions. That with 20 years is your first salary, so
you get into the political wheel
and you learn not to protest against the directive in exchange for a livelihood, the same happens in the Socialist Youth ", says this man, who at the age of 19 was offered to go on the PP lists in a Basque election. but he did not get a seat. Pablo Casado
It was tanned in the Moncloa-Aravaca district,
the one with the youngest members of the training.
There he befriended
Diaz Ayuso
, then a journalist who helped with the magazine.
When the two coincided in Genoa and Casado asked him to appear in the elections for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, Ayuso received the proposal with surprise, although a few weeks before it had gone viral after a splendid intervention in La Sexta.
Now he is the star of the PP.
That affinity of having grown up in the New Generations has led to the boarding of young faces with little experience.
"Pablo wanted
break with all the past,
but he has sacrificed the experience of the most mature politicians, never in the PP have we had so many
young people in high positions,
those of NNGG were always put into middle management ", laments an important policy of the Rajoy era.
Teodoro Garcia Egea
There are 18 members of the board of directors of the PP.
Most of them have come from NNGG and are from Casado's time.
After García Egea is
Ana Beltran Villalba
, 55-year-old deputy secretary general who joined the youth organization in her native Navarra.
Gonzalez Terol
grew up at the organization's headquarters in the Madrid municipality of Boadilla del Monte and
he became mayor
, is now deputy secretary of management.
Cuca Gamarra
, the current spokesperson replacing Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, managed to overcome the previous misgivings that aroused that she had supported Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría in the party's primaries.
Affiliated with New Generations
At age 22, she became the organization's first president in La Rioja.
Javier Maroto
He grew up in the ranks of New Generations in Álava and is now a spokesperson.
The same happens to the president of the electoral committee,
Belén Hoyo
, who was general coordinator of New Generations in Valencia.
Andrea Levy,
President of the Rights and Guarantees Committee and Councilor for Culture of the Madrid City Council, she joined the Catalan organization;
and the secretary
Alberto Casero
got his NNGG card at 18, like he did
Vicente Betoret
.
The same case as
Diego Movellán, Diego Calvo and Javier Aureliano,
the three party secretaries.
They are all the ones who score with
Pablo Casado
the strategy of the PP, the political lines and the way of acting.
"Are
who have decided that the way is to unmark from Vox
, use a very moderate tone and not do anything similar to Abascal's party, "explains another senior PP official who asks not to reveal his name, also uncomfortable with the promotion for having a New Generations card." Each of them has been recommending to friends with whom he coincided in his youth in the organization for intermediate positions.
As is the case of
Marga prohens
", deliza the same person.
The deputy for the Balearic Islands made very solid friendships in her years in New Generations.
He met Teodoro García Egea and since then they have been friends.
She is the deputy spokesperson for Social Rights and Equality within the party and a personal commitment from the secretary general.
So much so that Marga was the one sent by the PP to the first debate
that the program
The objective
organized before the Catalan elections.
A face almost unknown to the viewer who shared a lectern with
Edmundo Ba
l (C's),
Macarena Olona
(Vox),
Gabriel Ruffian
(ERC),
Jose Zaragoza
(PSOE) and
Joan Mena
(In common-Podem).
By the way
Alberto Fernandez,
leader of the PP in Catalonia and responsible for the bad electoral result of the party in last Sunday's elections, he also grew up in New Generations.
PAST TIMES
The current senator
Ana Camins
She made headlines a few weeks ago when Almeida proposed her as a good president of the PP Madrileño.
It was a voice of consensus and moderation, the mayor of Madrid said, while Díaz Ayuso was running for office.
The senator is the classic case of
promotion from New Generations.
Being affiliated with the youth branch of the party, at the age of 25 she came to the Marid Assembly from the hand of
Concepción Dancausa.
He combined his work in New Generations with politics.
"I took to a vote that no more than one salary could be charged when one was in NNGG, something that bothered many," the former member of the formation told LOC.
Camins continued her rise and became friends with Pablo Casado: "They were exciting years because
Pablo started renovating all the venues
of NNGG and also managed to convey to us that we not only had to talk about leisure, contraception, studies ... We could also talk about employment, pensions ... The vanguard of a more daring speech began.
It was no longer about filling in the back of the acts,
we had something to say
", he recalled in an interview with
Vanity fair
in 2018. She wistfully described that combative leader, and Casado also did not forget her loyalty when he ascended to power and appointed her secretary general of the party in Madrid.
All his friends from New Generations, in a directive now questioned.
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