
National
New PP leader gets to work as party splits refuse to go away
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As of last Saturday, the conservative Partido Popular party (PP) has a new leader. At a special party conference arranged to choose the successor of former PM, Mariano Rajoy, 57 per cent of the appointed delegates voted for the party's former ... respective teams after Casado's victory, there was surprise on Thursday when Sáenz de Santamaría wasn't given a place on the party's ruling committee. At a brief meeting with Casado in parliament on Wednesday, Sáenz de Santamaría told the new leader that ... as newly elected leader, he had "no need to negotiate one". On Thursday, Casado held his first National Executive meeting in Barcelona, a clear signal of his pro-Spanish unity stance and defiance of Catalan separatism.