In Madrid it is where it is best to hug, but the hug is often an imposture. Pats on the back in the corridors of power do not always mean support, warmth and affection. Often, they are warnings that what is recognition today may be a trip tomorrow. Not to mention the WhatsApp chats of the party domes, where the maxim of the musketeers has been corrected, since after one for all, it is followed by all against one, without the mobile vibrating.
This weekend, El País has made public the congratulatory messages that Pablo Casado received in his WhatsApp group, after his allegations of corruption against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after the mediation of his brother in the sale of masks to this institution. But in just five days, it went from "Pablo always wins, when, in addition to reason, you speak with your heart" (Javier Maroto) or "in the PP responsibility, loyalty and exemplary behavior must guide inside and outside the party (...), as is the case with Casado and the rest of us must do the same” (Cuca Gamarra) –among other messages from the leadership–, to ask for his head.
It will be that WhatsApp is loaded by the devil or that the popular ones had loyalty without a battery, but the truth is that the departure of Casado and his replacement in the race by Alberto Núñez Feijóo was registered in record time. It is possible that the popular needed a speech, I don't know if it was more moderate or calmer, but as soon as they saw that the polls were not favorable to them and that Ayuso was standing on his hips against the leadership, they swerved. As Cardinal Richelieu already warned: "Loyalty is simply a matter of dates."
David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister, was once walking with Winston Churchill and, passing a telephone box, asked him to lend him a penny to call a friend. He searched in his pockets and found a sixpence: “Here, David, it's a sixpence. With it you can call all your political friends”. In politics, friends are short-lived, as Casado discovered a year ago and Churchill a century ago.
