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Six nights and a few more hours were enough for the worst crisis that the Popular Party has experienced to finish fracturing the formation, lead Teodoro García Egea to his resignation and leave Pablo Casado in the abyss of the one who is left without support in politics.

A historic Tuesday afternoon that underpins the black February of the main opposition party: in less than 20 days, the

have allowed the validation of the Government's labor reform due to the error of a deputy in the vote and achieved in Castilla y León a result far from the (almost) absolute majority they were seeking.

And, to top it off, a cataract of communiqués, exits and resignations that confirmed the implosion that Spain is witnessing live -in that sense, an exceptional event in political history- and as reported by this newspaper since late on Wednesday.

Today is just one week.

EL MUNDO revealed on the night of February 16 on its website that a Madrid City Council official would have contacted a detective to investigate whether Isabel Díaz Ayuso's brother charged a commission from a contract for the purchase of masks at the beginning of the pandemic. .

The morning was long, but Madrid woke up earlier than ever, and a question ran through the city: Did the PP spy on the Madrid president?

carousel of accusations

"War breaks out."

In fact, the first headline on the web, Wednesday night, included that reference.

And the carousel of surprises and surprises begins.

Ayuso appears on Thursday to accuse Casado of trying to destroy her in a "cruel" way and defend the "legality" of her brother's contract.

"It is very painful that leaders of your party instead of supporting you want to destroy you."

And Genoa attacks: "Ayuso, after acknowledging today that there have been payments, has made very serious, almost criminal, accusations against the president of the PP and against the national leadership," says García Egea shortly before the PP, open on channel and Still in shock, open a file on Ayuso.

On Friday, the crossover of live attacks continued, this time in front of Cope's blue microphone: «The question is whether it is understandable that on April 1, when 700 people died in Spain, you can contract with your sister and receive 286,000 euros of profit for selling masks.

I think it is not exemplary, ”says Casado.

This may be the phrase that precedes the collapse.

Hours later, Ayuso presents and defends the legality of the contract, which he lowers to 55,850 euros.

“I have always refused to give explanations about my brother's work activity because I have never interfered with it.

Maybe it was a mistake.

But it seems degrading to me to have to clarify it due to suspicions based on information that nobody explains where they came from.

The figure of Alberto Núñez Feijóo already resonates in the baronies as the voice that has to ask for explanations about the chaos that prevails between Génova and Sol and late on Friday, EL MUNDO advances the feelings of the territorial leaders, who demand the head of Egea .

A piece of news that happens to be the opening of the cover of EL MUNDO in its second edition.

In the first he realized that Ayuso's explanations had left Casado speechless.

prelude to disaster

The weekend was the prelude to disaster: while those involved in the espionage point to García Egea as the person from whom the idea came -another exclusive-, more than 3,000 people surrounded the party's headquarters on Sunday morning to demand the resignation of the

leadership

.

An unprecedented situation, proof of the discomfort that exists both inside and outside the formation.

One question remained: what was the demoscopic impact of the crisis?

This newspaper launched the first big poll on Monday: a third of the PP voters went to Vox, which is close to the

.

A complicated scenario, as was the committee of about ten hours that corroborated the capsizing of Pablo Casado's hard core.

The worst was yet to come: the next call for a congress does not calm the spirits and this Tuesday numerous organic positions of the PP announced their resignation and asked for the resignation of Casado and Egea.

At the end of the day, Pablo Casado was still presiding over the PP.

One more night in the hell of Genoa.

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