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Pablo Casado rectifies and lowers the tone when talking about the crisis with Morocco after a clash with Pedro Sánchez was staged in Congress on Wednesday and the unity exhibited until then between the Government and the main opposition party was cracked.

Hours after that scuffle, the leader of the PP has qualified himself with a discursive turn in which, now, he has remarked that the "fault" of the situation lies with the neighboring country and in which he has emphasized his will to help the Government against "any aggression that comes from abroad."

Sources from the PP leadership acknowledge that it is possible that Casado had not explained himself "well" during his intervention in the government control session, and that the forms used were not the "most cordial".

Something that in the end would have clouded the intention of reaching out to the Government to face the crisis.

Thus, these popular sources insist that Casado supports Sánchez even though he is not "unconditional."

Casado had made important reproaches to Sánchez in Congress, implying that the responsibility lay with the Spanish Executive, such as when he denounced that a series of "diplomatic errors" had generated the situation, when it made the president ugly that the position was "great" for the crisis management, when he asked him to be humble and allow himself to "help" or as when he declared that it was the "chaos" of the coalition government that was weakening Spain abroad.

Those words ignited Sánchez, who also raised the tone against the president of the PP to ensure that it was being shared in a "deselal" way and to accuse him of trying to take advantage of "any calamity to overthrow the Government."

The result was a collision that cracked political unity in the midst of a crisis of the utmost gravity.

The tone of both contrasted with the one employed almost later by

Inés Arrimadas

, from Ciudadanos, who offered an extended hand to Sánchez, focusing the blame on Morocco, while demanding "unity" but with sufficient self-criticism to "correct obvious errors" committed by Exteriors.

After hours, and after an act with more than 200 mayors and municipal positions of the PP, Casado has balanced his position in a line more similar to that of Arrimadas.

He pointed to Morocco - which he had previously ignored - while maintaining that mistakes had been made.

"The diplomatic crisis is the fault of Morocco, but the responsibility lies with the Government because it could have been avoided as we have been saying for more than a month with the first formal complaint," he said.

Casado has defended the loyalty of the PP, in the face of Sánchez's accusations, but has stressed that foreign policy requires "great prudence."

Even so, he has agreed with the president that this is not a migratory crisis but a "diplomatic one", and that it is immigration that is being used as a "throwing weapon" against Spain.

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