The possibility that both Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José Luis Martínez-Almeida are running to preside over the PP in Madrid has surfaced in the last hours the voices of the PP that bet on a "third way" so that the blood does not reach the river.

Above all, among those closest to the mayor, but also in Genoa they are giving signs in this regard.

After Pablo Casado gave wings to Almeida on Tuesday, by establishing an equidistance between his possible candidacy and that of Ayuso (already announced), now the general secretary of the PP has added that the current model, in which neither the president nor the mayor lead the regional apparatus but does a "third way", it is being a success.

He has thus implied that it would be better not to make it worse.

In an interview on Antena 3, Teodoro García Egea has assured that the PP needs "a model that allows the party and the governments to advance."

"In Madrid today there is a model in which we have

Pío García-Escudero

as president of the Madrid PP, Ayuso de la Cómunidad and Almeida as mayor. That model [of tricefalia] has been seen to have worked."

Of course, García Egea has wanted to downplay this internal struggle: "When the congress is called we will have to sit down and see what happens. There is no congress called; it will be called at the end of this month. We will see it when it touches" . The

number two

Casado has been said that "this debate honestly does not matter to anyone."

The general secretary of the PP has also issued a veiled warning to the possible candidates to lead the PP in Madrid: "What I am saying is that the party is a means to obtain an end that is to improve the lives of citizens together. we can dedicate ourselves to the party congresses and we have to dedicate ourselves to winning the elections and applying the measures. " "Without a party, there is no government. When the PP has forgotten its principles and the commitments it has made, it has ended up without a party and without a government," he warned once again.

It should be remembered that García Egea gave Ayuso his "full support" in June, for being "a first-rate reference" and "not only in Madrid." "If I were an affiliate, logically my full support for President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has shown that she works firmly, and works for people in her watchword," said then number two from Genoa.

In the PP there is an important current that advocates the "third way".

This is, because it is

Ana Camins

who presides over the PP of Madrid and thus the balance of powers between the Community and the City Council does not become unbalanced.

"The experience is that when the president of the Community also presides over the PP of Madrid, the party is forgotten. It is unfeasible to be at both," says one of the senior positions in favor of the Solomonic way.

"And now the party has revived with García-Escudero and, above all, with Camins," he adds.

Both have held their positions since 2018, after the resignation of the regional Cristina Cifuentes due to the

Master's case

.

However, in the Puerta del Sol (seat of the government of the Community of Madrid) they argue that whoever presides over the autonomy is always the one who leads the party apparatus, as occurs in the rest of the communities in which the PP governs.

And they accuse Almeida of threatening to appear in congress solely in order to prevent Ayuso from taking the reins.

Convention

On the other hand, García Egea has confirmed that the former presidents of the Government Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar "will participate in the national convention."

They will not do it at the closing of the same, which will be held in the bullring of Valencia (a very symbolic site for the PP) on October 3, but "in the discussion forums of the convention" that will be held during the previous days in five other cities: Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Cartagena, Madrid or Valladolid.

However, the secretary general of the

popular

has considered the presence of the former president of Ciudadanos, Albert Rivera, difficult: "There are people who went through politics and at this time they are more [focused] on their professional activity."

Finally, the PP leader has rejected that the pact to renew the CGPJ depends in any way on the dismissal of Dolores Delgado as State Attorney General and has assured that the condition is that a reform be approved so that the judges elect 12 of the 20 members of the Council.

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