Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo's book: "There was something about Pablo Casado that didn't quite convince me"

• The interview Álvarez de Toledo: "Egea exercises a testosteronic control and harms Casado; he does 'bullying'"

• The answer Montesinos responds to Álvarez de Toledo: "We are not going to enter into sterile debates"

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo writes in

(Ediciones B) that her heart gave a triple turn on March 11, 2019. She writes it on page 18 of a book that even before its publication will have already caused a few cardiac arrests in Genoa and beyond.

And he writes it because, according to what he narrates, Pablo Casado offered himself like this:

- Cayetana, I know what you think of the parties and that your first experience in politics was not easy or happy.

But now everything will be different.

I not only respect your freedom, but I ask you to exercise it.

I want you to bring the spirit of Free and Equal to the PP.

That you give the ideological and cultural battle to the left and nationalism, now in the name of my party, which is yours.

"It was the only offer that he could not refuse," sums up Álvarez de Toledo.

But ... how much before that March 11 did the PP still deputy view her future party chief?

The image is projected by herself in the chapter

: "Vanities and whims aside, there was something about Casado that did not quite convince me. He seemed to me, yes, a man of variable empathy. A sentimental chameleon. What is strictly called a weather vane ".

In the next line, he assures that before the PP primaries that raised Casado were actually called, there was already an underground campaign to make him a leader.

That she was offered to join, and that she replied: "I had always worked with people smarter and braver than me, and I did not join."

"What changed for me to change my mind?" He wonders.

"Maybe less than I wanted to believe."

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo fixes

her version

in

.

A version that covers from the back of the book: "Only when politicians say in public what we affirm in private, only when we recognize the degradation of our office, only when we see ourselves portrayed in the implacable mirror of events, only then will we be capable of rescuing democracy from the dirty jaws of populism. "

I not only respect your freedom, but I ask you to exercise it.

I want you to bring the spirit of Free and Equal to the PP

Pablo Casado

Among the facts known to the regular newspaper reader are those of the protagonist and even those of her emotions. And this is how the deputy remembers, for example, the moment in which the PP won its only seat for Catalonia, its seat, in the 2019 elections: "The first data anticipated a catastrophe, and it was. (...) Past At two in the morning, I went up to my room, slowly, without making noise so as not to wake

, who that night, anticipating her sister, had asked herself to sleep with me. (...) She had wanted to wait for me awake. She looked up and she gave me a big smile and fully aware of my pain. I hugged her and we cried. And we laughed. And I collapsed. "

In

there is a name that is repeated with some continuity, despite the fact that Álvarez de Toledo writes on his page 165 that "it is difficult for him to talk about Teodoro García Egea." It is, of course, Teodoro García Egea. "It happened to me when I was a spokesperson," he says, "how is it possible that I have to dedicate so much time and energy to this man? But it has to be done. Because García Egea is an archetype. Profiles like his proliferate in the parties. They are politicians of whom no really valuable idea is remembered, but who end up prevailing by the sheer force of their ambition. They crave power. They seek power. And they often end up wielding power. And in a despotic way. Theocratic. Theodocratic. ".

With Egea -of whom in the exclusive interview published this Sunday by EL MUNDO Álvarez de Toledo declared that "he exercises a testosterone control and harms Casado" - the deputy details having had "the most unpleasant conversation" of her life: "I never imagined the chasm of irrationality and despotism in which he was capable of sinking ", assesses about Casado's right hand.

Moreover, when leaving that meeting, "decomposed", Álvarez de Toledo remembers asking "Pablo" to receive her: "I begged him to stop Teodoro's attacks. (...) I even warned him of the consequences of his inhibition. Not for me, but for his own leadership. His answer astonished me: 'I admit it: I have given Teodoro all the power, all the power.'

I begged him to stop Teodoro's onslaught.

His answer left me stunned: 'I admit it: I have given Teodoro all the power

Alvarez de Toledo

Paradigm of the functioning of Genoa for the deputy could well be what happened that May 27, 2020 in which she appealed to Pablo Iglesias Turrión in the Congress of Deputies - that ringing junction of "FRAP" and "Mrs. Marquesa" - for, she says , "place it in front of the mirror, put an end to the presumed moral superiority of the left and the stockholm syndrome of the right".

The end of that session evaluated it like this: "I saw how Pablo left the hemicycle accompanied by his

and I sensed what was going to happen. I have seen it dozens of times: a parliamentary success of the PP turns into a defeat, or at least in a breakdown, thanks to its own hesitations and leaks. The story that was curdling throughout the afternoon was written by Genoa: 'Cayetana overshadows Casado and spoils the PP's strategy against Marlaska' ".

After the uproar caused by the interview published on Sunday by this newspaper, the person in charge of responding in public to Álvarez de Toledo has been the Deputy Secretary General of Communication of the PP,

: "We are not going to enter into sterile debates", he has limited himself to repeat.

The deputy also refers to him, and to his finger, on page 175 with this anecdote from the first Steering Committee that she attended as a spokesperson for the

group

: "I received a reprimand from the Deputy Secretary of Communication, Pablo Montesinos, finger up: 'We instructed that no one speak at the door!'

I didn't know what he meant. And even if he had ... ".

I received a reprimand from Pablo Montesinos, finger raised: 'We gave instructions that no one should speak at the door!'

Alvarez de Toledo

In

journalists, communicators and even accusations of blackmail are cited. Page 296. The subject of the verb would be Pablo Casado: "One day alone, another before third parties, he came to comment that

and

, respectively president and director of

, had blackmailed him. why. I understood that among other things they had demanded the inclusion in the electoral lists of former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández - intimate of both - and that later they had been outraged because he did not include him. " "With good judgment", adds the deputy on the decision of their leader.

The narrative splashes journalism several times.

An interview that the announcer

does with him on

.

The consequence, he points out, was "noise in some

offices

. (...) Casals and Marhuenda, old admirers of mine, finally decreed my political death."

"Sharp," Alsina had asked:

Doing business ... what do you mean, what not ...?

do business with this situation ... by whom?

And she replied:

Yes. There are televisions that do business.

, for example, does business with the erosion of the values ​​of our democracy, which are neither right nor left.

It does business with the erosion of our democratic system.

And we are at a critical moment.

The book, structured in chapters of didactic epigraphs (Tacticism, Cynicism, Victimism, Submission), is leading to a "dismissal in slow motion".

From the beginning when "Dad would spend hours away from home and I would play or read on the veranda. But then he would come to pick me up and the sky would open up. We would go to the great museums and the latest exhibitions, to the Luxembourg gardens and to ... "to a kind of purposeful treaty of its desirable policy:" A party should not be a military structure. Although it should imitate something basic in military practice, which is authority from the example. "

A party must not be a military structure.

Although it must imitate something basic that is the authority from the example

Alvarez de Toledo

Page 469, August 17, 2020:

Pablo accompanied me to the elevator. Before we said goodbye, I had one last reflection. I turned around and said, "You have fired me. You know that, right? He nodded. Give Isa a kiss for me."

, his wife: pretty, with a clean, sincere and kind smile, we got along well. I went down to the garage and went to the Half Ration, where, with the plates and glasses already empty,

and

waiting for me

with faces of circumstance. I saw them and fell into a chair, between tears of stupor and exhaustion.

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has published

And he says he will hold on to the end, whatever that means.

One last excerpt from the book?

"Pablo wanted to bring the PP to power; I, the government. It is not exactly the same. The first is a technical question: form a majority and enter through the gates of La Moncloa. The second has a moral component. It is not enough to occupy the command ".

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