The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, is working the campaign of the Catalan elections like no leader of any other party. Constant trips to the point that for months they have made him joke about the possibility of changing his registration. She does not speak Catalan but understands it “perfectly”, that is why she does not object to the interviews being done in Catalan, unlike the defenestrated Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, and she throws a wink of Catalan with which she wants to show some understanding with the Catalan conflict, such as the one that has been revealed this Tuesday in statements to RAC1.
Casado has uncovered that on the day of the 1-O referendum in Catalonia, when he was serving as deputy secretary of communication for the PP, he decided not to appear at a press conference to explain what was happening because “he did not agree.” In particular, he did not agree “with those who said they were voting in comparable elections, nor with those who said they were not voting.”
I decided not to go out at a press conference because what was happening was not what had to happen “
Pablo CasadoPresident of the PP
“On October 1, I was a spokesperson and I did not appear at a press conference because my position regarding what was happening is public and known and it is not what had to happen,” he explained. “I decided not to go out,” he recalled. For the current leader of the PP, what was happening on that day – the altercations in the polling stations, the police intervention against the citizens – “should have been avoided.”
In fact, Casado has come to say that it was not the first time that he revealed a fact that, in any case, was little known. “I said it in my congress in the PP” and “we all said it that same week, we did not like it …”. In any case, he has downplayed this fact and has put forward the idea that he was presented to lead the PP and “offer something different to Catalonia: presence, listening and firmness in what I think.”
Catalonia is doing the best in the autonomous state ”, but“ what happened then should have been avoided ”
Pablo CasadoPresident of the PP
He has rejected the idea that he now reveals this fact because the leader of the PP “is on the campaign” and “calms down”, and has insisted that “Catalonia is doing better in the autonomous state”, but “there had to be avoided what happened then ”, referring to 1-O.
As for how to do it, Casado has pointed to the judicial issue, when he thinks that the judge should have acted “before that morning.” And on politics, it has gone back to 2003, to the Tinell pact, and the fact that “it was done wrong” with Artur Mas. In this case, he recalled that while in other autonomies taxes were lowered as a recipe against the crisis, “others invented an external enemy”, which is “what Trump does with Washington and Orban with immigrants”, and that in the case of Catalonia led “to the one-sidedness of the DUI.”
Casado has approached the Catalan question with sentimental and model-state arguments. “I come to do an interview in a wonderful language such as Catalan” and “I come every week”, he remarked. But “the autonomic fit is worth it.” After demanding that he be listened to when he talks about Catalonia, he has assured that he does not care “the flag that a Catalan has” on the balcony, because what he wants is “to serve everyone, preside over everyone”. But “the ‘procés’ has already failed and even privately the independentists recognize that they will not be able to do it again”, that “it is not true that ‘Spain steals from us’”.
Casado has assured that he is not a “radical” and that, within the law, the Constitution and concord, he is “at the service of the Catalans to improve their lives. I want to be part of the solution and not the problem ”, he concluded.