Gamarra, a year after the "deep crisis" of the PP: "We did what we had to do and we acted quickly"

She does not comment on the messages that have been published about her and more members of the management supporting Casado after his interview in Cope

MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP and spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, admitted this Monday that a year ago the PP experienced "very complicated" moments and a "profound crisis", alluding to the outbreak of the internal war between Pablo Casado and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but he stressed that they then made "quick" decisions so that today the formation is "alternative" with Alberto Nuñez Feijóo.

"They were very difficult moments for the entire PP but I think we did what we had to do and, above all, we acted quickly and today the Spanish have a party that is focused only on their problems," Gamarra said in an interview on RNE, that Europa Press has collected.

When asked if she would have preferred not to write the message that she sent to Pablo Casado supporting him for the clarity of his interview at Cope on February 18 of a year ago and that El País has spread, Gamarra has avoided delving into it and has indicated that They have already given "all the appropriate explanations" and the Spanish "know the deep crisis in which the PP was a year ago."

In that radio interview, Casado questioned that "when 700 people died in Spain", you can "contract with your sister and receive 300,000 euros of profit for selling masks", alluding to the contract for the purchase of masks that the Community of Madrid awarded with the Priviet Sportive company with which the president's brother had business relations.

The spokesperson for the 'popular' in Congress has emphasized the "quick decisions" that were made so that today the PP is, with Feijóo at the helm, "the alternative that Spain needs and the first party in terms of voting intentions to the Spanish".

"What focuses us, once the internal problems have been overcome, are the problems that the Spanish have and the solutions that we can propose to them. And that is what we dedicate ourselves to, body and soul and two hundred percent," he emphasized.

As for whether he feels pain, sadness or anguish when he remembers what happened a year ago, Gamarra has indicated that they were "very difficult moments for the entire PP", but he has reiterated that they did "what they had to do" with "quick" decisions ".

When asked if she has spoken with Casado in the last year, the general secretary of the PP has not responded and has limited herself to saying that "the important thing is the dialogue" they have with the Spanish, "and not internal issues." As she has added, now the PP is "focused on the problems of Spain" such as "fixing" the law of 'only yes is yes', the rise in mortgages or the shopping basket. "A party has to owe to Spain and to solve the problems of the Spanish", she has added.

Given the absence of Casado in the unit photo of Valencia de Feijóo with the former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy and when he is going to be rehabilitated, Gamarra has reiterated that the internal issues of the parties "are not the important ones" in the face of the problems that the Spanish have.

In his opinion, these internal issues "do not have any importance" when they are at a time "so complicated" for millions of Spaniards, who "deserve" that the PP is focused on them because "they are the important ones." "We are not the important ones," she stressed.

When asked about the statements of the former Vox deputy Macarena Olona alluding to suspicions of corruption and equating Vox with a Nazi organization, Gamarra has indicated that she did not see that interview on La Sexta and has stressed that party issues "correspond to the parties" and at this moment it is necessary to be centered in the Spaniards. "I am more concerned about how a family gets to the end of the month than internal issues," she added.

Regarding the health strike in the Community of Madrid, after more than two months, Gamarra has pointed out that the problem is the lack of health personnel, which is "common" to all the CCAAs, not just Madrid.

"I think Ayuso is doing everything in his power and more", when asked if he can do more to call off that strike. In addition, she has criticized the "political use" of "certain unions" of health for a "political wear" of the Madrid president.