The casadist Ana Beltrán steps aside and facilitates Feijóo's renewal in the PP of Navarra

Ana Beltrán, with Pablo Casado in her stage as Deputy Secretary of Organization of the PP. Villar López

Those related to Pablo Casado quietly step aside.

The traumatic departure of the former leader of the PP, ousted by a pact of the barons last March, left few of his faithful in the party.

Most betrayed him and others, like Pablo Montesinos, abandoned politics.

But there is still a small group of Casadistas in the PP, and their fit in the new stage will be key so that internal turbulence is not unleashed.

One of them is Ana Beltrán, former deputy secretary of Organization, national deputy and leader of the PP in Navarra.

The one that was

de Casado has decided to step aside in Navarra and not stand for re-election as president of the party, sources close to her have confirmed to EL PAÍS.

Beltrán facilitates Alberto Núñez Feijóo the renewal in that square, where the management wanted a relief.

The leadership has yet to decide on its new bet in a territory that is a powder keg for Feijóo, where the Navarra Suma brand is floundering due to the internal rupture in UPN.

Before the summer holidays, Beltrán communicated to Feijóo's new management his intention not to stand for re-election in Navarra for personal reasons, since he settled with his family in Madrid when he assumed responsibilities with Casado.

But his decision had not transpired until now, and it is relevant because he leaves the way open for Feijóo to promote the replacement in Navarra that, according to the sources consulted in the address, the PP leader also intended.

Beltrán now has a pending conversation with the leadership to organize his departure and comment on his replacement.

The PP has only five paid public positions in Navarra, counting on her, so in succession there are not many options.

The purpose of the deputy is to collaborate in making a unity list possible in Navarra to avoid internal tensions.

Despite the step aside from Beltrán, Navarra is a complicated territory for Feijóo.

The PP was presented in coalition with UPN and Ciudadanos under the Navarra Suma brand in the general elections of April and November 2019, in the elections to the Parliament of Navarra and in the municipal elections of 2019. But now that brand is past, largely by the intention of the Popular Party.

Feijóo wants to recover the prominence of the PP acronym throughout the country because he considers that the party has recovered with his arrival and has more electoral options with his brand than with any other, according to the sources consulted in the party.

At the same time, the purpose is to group the entire center-right around the PP, which implies reaching some type of agreement with the UPN in Navarra.

But that formation has been blown up with the expulsion of deputies Sergio Sayas and Carlos García Adanero, who voted against the labor reform despite the directives of their leadership.

And there are the remains of Ciudadanos, the third leg of that alliance.

The PP does not have an easy time putting order in this mess.

The course begins for Feijóo with several unresolved territorial issues.

The PP leader must still solve the internal puzzle in several places.

He has problems in three: in addition to Navarra, in Asturias and La Rioja, not counting Catalonia and the Basque Country, where he has a little more time because they do not have to hold regional elections in May of next year.

The deputy secretary of Organization, Miguel Tellado, has been traveling throughout the country for several months to try to put out all the fires.

The internal wound due to the departure of Casado is another of the open fronts.

The episode of the pact of the Judicial Power revealed by EL PAÍS in mid-August aroused for the first time tensions between the two leaderships, with the former Secretary General, Teodoro García Egea, in the pillory for having signed a secret agreement with the Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolanos.

García Egea, Ana Beltrán and Antonio González Terol are the most outstanding casadistas who are still in the party without having changed sides in the internal crisis that unseated Casado.

All three want to continue in politics.

Beltrán steps aside in Navarra, but would like to continue in the PP.

Affiliated ten years ago, her career in the party has been short but brilliant.

Casado noticed her because she received the businesswoman of the year award in Navarra in 2008, and promoted her to the leadership of the party.

In Navarra, Beltrán had been an escort for several years because he belonged to the PP.

Now Feijóo must decide if she can continue to make a career in the PP or if she dispenses with her services.

The deputy is marked by the

that marked the few three faithful of Casado: she stood up behind him when he left the Chamber in the February 2020 control session, while all his internal support crumbled.

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