Following the meeting, this Tuesday, of the National Executive Committee, Pablo Casado, president of the Popular Party, announces, among other things, that the party is abandoning the emblematic national headquarters on Génova street in Madrid because it is under judicial scrutiny. Without a doubt, it is an ingenious graphic way of trying to break with the past of corruption. Undoubtedly, breaking with that past of corruption seems absolutely necessary to once again be the necessary alternative Government in Spain. This is what the PSOE did in 2000 when it chose José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as the new leader to get rid of the burden of corruption during the Felipe González era that José Bono represented.
Breaking with the PP of corruption: yes, but without denying the glorious past led by José María Aznar of 8 years of government and the absolute majority of 2000 with 183 deputies. Nor deny the government of Mariano Rajoy with the absolute majority of 186 deputies in 2011, although the corruption that led Aznar's economic vice president, Rodrigo Rato, to prison was later revealed. Breaking with that corruption is not going to be easy with just half measures. Among other things, because, after the Aznar era, the PP has been characterized by communicating poorly, the opposite of how the left traditionally does in Spain, and also Vox.
Coming to the Canary Islands, and although the PP has its necessary and reasonable level of autonomy in each territory, the national leadership must encourage the essential reconstruction of the party in the Archipelago with true leadership and not have it in the hands of remnants of the important leadership that José Manuel Soria exercised. When in 1999 the PP of the Canary Islands handed over its leadership to the then young (41 years old) mayor of Las Palmas, its leaders, renouncing to thrive, starred in an act of high-mindedness and generosity.
That is what those who are in charge of the PP in the Canary Islands have to do now, or I am very much afraid that they run the risk of suffering the sorpasso of Vox in the next regional elections of 2023.
In Lanzarote, although I have never been on Astrid Pérez's line, nor has she ever wanted to count on me, I do not believe that there is any alternative to the current island leadership that she exercises. This does not mean that I think Astrid's political action of the PP in Lanzarote is good. For this reason, also in Lanzarote I see, with increasing clarity, the possibility of a sorpasso of Vox over the Popular Party, although only at the level of elections to the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
