Pablo Casado

Pablo Casado Blanco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo

The Most Excellent
kaˈsaðo ˈβlaŋko]; born 1 February 1981) (in English
Paul Married White) is a Spanish politician and leader Pablo Casado
of the People's Party (PP). He is a member of MP
the Congress of Deputies in representation of Madrid,
having previously represented Ávila between 2011 and
2019.[2] From 2015 to 2018, he also served as vice
secretary general of communication of the PP.[3] Since
July 2018, he has been the president of the PP.[4]

Contents
Biography
Early life
Start of political career
National MP
Ongoing investigations on his degrees
19th PP National Congress
2019 election
President of the People's Party
Political positions Incumbent
Electoral history Assumed office
Explanatory notes 21 July 2018
Citations Deputy Teodoro García Egea
Preceded by Mariano Rajoy
Leader of the Opposition
Biography
Incumbent
Assumed office
Early life 21 July 2018
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Casado was born on 1 February 1981 in Palencia. His
father, Miguel Casado González,[5] was a physician and Preceded by Pedro Sánchez
his mother, Esther Blanco Ruiz,[5] a nursing university Vice Secretary General of Communication
professor. His family owns an ophthalmologic clinic in of the People's Party
his native city.[6] He studied at the Colegio Castilla, In office
managed by the Marist Brothers, and took the 8th year 18 June 2015 – 21 July 2018
of the General Basic Education (EGB) at Douai President Mariano Rajoy
School[1] in the United Kingdom.[7] He has five
Preceded by Carlos Floriano
brothers.
Organization
He started his university studies in law at the ICADE (a Succeeded by Marta González
centre located in Madrid and integrated within
Member of the Congress of Deputies
the Universidad Pontificia Comillas) in 1999, but he
switched to another centre in 2004,[8][n 1] enrolling in Incumbent
the CES Cardenal Cisneros, a privately managed centre Assumed office
owned by a foundation of the Community of 13 December 2011
Constituency Ávila, Madrid
Madrid and attached (for the purpose of the issuance of Member of the Assembly of Madrid
the degree) to the public Complutense University of In office
Madrid (UCM).[8] 13 June 2007 – 9 July 2009

Casado later falsely claimed to have earned a Personal details

postgraduate degree at Harvard University; he had in Born Pablo Casado Blanco
fact attended a four-day course in 2008 at IESE 1 February 1981
Business School's Madrid campus. No academic Palencia, Spain
requirements were needed to attend the course, and
Nationality Spanish
attendance was the only requirement for
completion.[13] Political party People's Party
Spouse(s) Isabel Torres Orts (m. 2009)

Start of political career Children 2

Education Douai School[1]
He entered politics and joined the People's Party (PP) ICADE
in 2003 when Casado was still a student.[14][15] CES Cardenal Cisneros
He presided over the regional branch of the PP's youth King Juan Carlos University
organization in the Community of Madrid, known as
the New Generations (NNGG), between 2005 and 2013.[16][17][18] He made an initiation journey
to Cuba in early 2007 (similar to the 2012 travel by his right-hand in the Madrilenian NNGG Ángel
Carromero),[n 2] where he met with Cuban dissidents such as Oswaldo Payá. He left written
testimony of it in pieces published in Libertad Digital and El Mundo.[20][6]

In 2007, he was included as candidate in the PP list for

the election to the Assembly of Madrid; he became a member
of the 8th term of the regional legislature (in June),[21] where
he held the functions of spokesman in the parliamentary
Commission of Justice and Public Administrations and
assistant spokesman in the Commission of Budget and
Finance.[22]

He finally obtained his degree in Law in the CES Cardenal

Casado (white shirt) and Ángel
Cisneros in September 2007 after having reportedly passed
Carromero (#2 numbered shirt) next
to Esperanza Aguirre during a
half of the credits of the 5-year licenciature in four months of
summer event of the Madrilenian that year.[8] He also claims to have a BA in Business
"New Generations" in 2010 Administration and Management and an MA in Administrative
Law from the King Juan Carlos University.[23] The latter
degree is a source of significant controversy, as Casado was
found to have obtained it from the now controverted School of Administrative Law of that
university without ever attending any class, taking any test, and turning in a final dissertation.[24]

He resigned as regional legislator in July 2009.[25] In June 2009 Casado married Isabel Torres
Orts;[26] the couple have a daughter Paloma and a son Pablo.[27] Isabel Torres is from a wealthy
industrial family in Elche, and works as a psychologist in a private clinic in Madrid.[28]

Between 2009 and 2012 he directed the office of former Prime Minister José María Aznar. During
this period, in 2010, he became one of the founders (along with Carlos Bustelo, Rafael Bardají and
Enrique Navarro Gil) of the Friends of Israel Initiative think tank.[29][30]

National MP
He was included as candidate in the PP list for the constituency
of Ávila in the November 2011 general election and became a
member of the Congress of Deputies. He was subsequently re-
elected in the 2015 and 2016 general elections.

He was designated spokesman of the Campaign Committee of

the PP for the local and regional elections of May
2015.[31][32] Later, in June 2015, he was appointed vice
secretary general of communication of the PP by the party
During a press conference as vice
president Mariano Rajoy.[33] secretary general of communication
in 2017
On 9 October 2017, Casado made a comment about the
former President of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, alluding
that should Puigdemont declare Catalan independence, he
could end up like Lluís Companys, who was imprisoned by the Spanish Second Republic. His words
were used by some Catalan nationalists to suggest that he referred to Companys' execution by
Franco's regime in 1940, although Casado stated he was referring to his imprisonment by the
democratic Second Republic.[n 3]

Ongoing investigations on his degrees

In April 2018, in the wider scope of the ongoing Cifuentes Case,

where the former President of the Community of
Madrid Cristina Cifuentes is being criminally investigated on
the basis of forged documents relating to her Master's
degree in Regional and Local Law at the King Juan Carlos
University (URJC), doubts about the academic qualifications of
Casado (who took the same post-graduate studies at the URJC)
started to appear.

Initially in relation of the presential Master's degree in

Regional and Local Law,[39][40] which Pablo Casado reportedly Cristina Cifuentes showing a
took and passed without ever attending classes, nor passing document allegedly proving her
any test,[41] as he publicly admitted[n 4] and, later, in May inscription on her MA studies, during
2018, in relation to alleged irregularities about the quick an extraordinary session of the
obtention of his degree in Law at the CES Cardenal Plenary of the Assembly of Madrid
Cisneros,[43][44][45] as consequence of alleged pressures by the in April 2018. The controversy on
then regional president, Esperanza Aguirre on the authorities her Master's degree led to the
of the CES Cardenal Cisneros, whose executive board was questioning of the academic
appointed by the regional government and was presided degrees of several politicians who
by Lucía Figar, colleague of Casado in the PP's parliamentary took the same studies, including
group in the Assembly of Madrid and regional minister of Casado's.
Education.[46][47] The centre issued a statement where they
denied such accusations, declaring there was not preferential
treatment on the student Casado.[48]

This later development led to the opening of an investigation by the Rectorate of the Complutense
University of Madrid (to which the CES Cardenal Cisneros is attached for the purpose of the
issuance of academic degrees) to clarify the procedures about how the Law degree was actually
granted while Casado was member of the regional legislature.[49][50][51] Similarly, the instructing
judge of the Cifuentes Case opened, in May 2018, a separated piece in order to investigate the MA
at the URJC, which Casado had allegedly taken during the 2008–2009 academic year.[40] The
judge asked for a report to the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA)
and asked the Congress of Deputies for the confirmation of the parliamentary immunity status
(aforamiento) of Casado, the later considered a routine procedure before moving the investigation
to the Supreme Court.[52]

In May 2018 the URJC opened an investigation about the title of BA in Business Administration
and Management of Casado seeking to "shed light on the situation of the degree studies of the
student Pablo Casado Blanco".[53]

On 6 August 2018, the instructing judge sent a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court
requesting the formal indictment of Pablo Casado for the crimes of prevarication and improper
bribery, after assessing "indications of criminal responsibility" in the obtention of his master's
degree.[54] The Supreme Court had evidence that Casado could have received a «favor treatment»,
but defended that this would not constitute a crime, arguing in the justment, issued in September
2018, that there was no indication that there was a previous or simultaneous concert between the
popular president and the director of the master's degree[55]

On September 21, 2018, the Inspection of services of the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) filed
the investigation that had been opened ex officio on the degree of Pablo Casado. He did it, as rector
Javier Ramos reported, because he did not detect irregularities. The University said it had analyzed
all the formal administrative procedures of the president of the PP - from his academic record until
his enrollment, payments, validations, etc. - without detecting "evidence of any error".[56]

19th PP National Congress

After the motion of no confidence, Mariano Rajoy resigned

from the leadership of the PP, Pablo Casado ran as pre-
candidate to the primary election to the presidency of the
party. He introduced himself as a (potential) leader intending
to "recover" voters from Citizens and Vox.[57]

He obtained the second most votes out of 6 candidates

after Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, former Deputy Prime
Minister of Spain, who received the most votes among the Casado between María Dolores de
Cospedal and Mariano Rajoy during
party members with a margin of 1,500 votes. On July 21, 2018,
the 19th National Congress of the
during the 19th Extraordinary National Congress of the PP, a
PP on 21 July 2018.
final vote among 3,082 party delegates was held in order to
decide the new leader of the PP between Sáenz de Santamaría
and Casado.[58][59]

He won the voting among the delegates with 1,701 votes (57,2%) versus 1,250 (42%) votes to Sáenz
de Santamaría out of 2,973 votes, being proclaimed as the new president, in what was considered a
party swing towards the right.[60][61][62][63]

2019 election

In response to a budget defeat, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dissolved the Cortes
Generales,[64]giving Casado an early test of his leadership, which was also in the aftermath of the
first right-of-centre government in Andalucia.[65] The election results proved disappointing for
Casado, his party losing over half of their seats in the Cortes Generales, with Albert Rivera's
Citizens, overtaking them as the foremost party of the centre-right in many regions of Spain, and
the new far-right Vox also taking a significant number of voters.[66][67] A major loss, was the
member for Álava, and the 2019 election campaign manager, Javier Maroto, who not only lost his
seat in the Basque country to EH Bildu, but was fired for his responsibility for PP's
defeat.[68] Casado refused to resign, but many members' worries of the "suicide" that was his
controversial leadership,[69] have been confirmed in light of the defeat, as he has now U-turned
back to the political centre,[70][71] placing much of the blame of the loss on Cs and Vox, for
splintering the vote.[72][73]

Casado adopted an active role during the COVID-19 lockdown, refraining from restricting public
activities, visiting disparate locations such as Mercamadrid, a hotel, a sheep farm and the
headquarters of the association of vehicle producers; he proceeded to criticise the Government of
Spain from those platforms.[74] In May 2020 he established the abstention on the extension of
the State of Alarm as party line.[75]

Political positions
He has been described as neoconservative, as well as close to José María Aznar and Esperanza
Aguirre.[76][77] He describes himself as liberal-conservative.[78] According to José Luis Villacañas,
Casado's discourse incorporates several of the core tenets of the Spanish right, including an
emphasis on Catholicism, the secondary role of women, a stress on the unity of the Spanish nation,
pro-life views, and Atlanticism.[79] According to Antonio Elorza, Casado's ascension represents the
comeback of the reactionary PP in the name of principles and fidelity to political lineage: the family
as a totem, a fiscal counterreform, a heavy hand in Catalonia, a preventively repressive legislation
and Franco's corpse remaining at Valle de los Caídos.[80]

In October 2017, he vouched (on a personal basis) for a

potential reform of the Organic Law of Political Parties which
would include the illegalization of political parties promoting
the independence (of a part of Spain).[82]

Annoyed by the decision of a German court to grant the

extradition of Puigdemont to Spain solely for the charge of
embezzlement in July 2018 (which he branded as
"humiliation"), he raised the possibility of abolishing
Casado in front of the Walls of
the Schengen Area.[83] In September 2018 he directly ordered
Ávilain September 2018 during a
the PP members of the European Parliament to abstain in the
ceremony for the opening of the
voting of the Sargentini report report calling for political year, in which he inveighed
triggering Article 7 proceedings against the Hungarian against the Historical Memory
government of Viktor Orbán.[84] Law.[81]

Also in July 2018, he inveighed against "gender ideology",

which he described as a form of "social collectivism the centre-right must fight against".[85] He is
also critical of the right of abortion as well as euthanasia.[86]

On 21 July 2018, in the National Congress of the PP, he vowed to "reconquer the Catalan people",
by "turning the hypothetical Tabarnia into a real Tabarnia".[87][88]

He has declared the "Hispanidad" to be the mankind's greatest feat, only comparable
to romanization.[89] According to Elorza, in his message, void of any criticism, Casado recovers the
formulation of the concept of Hispanidad of the 1930s and reaffirms a particular idea of Spain, in
which history, turned into a mechanism of exaltation, is used to propel a nationalist
mobilization.[90]

The use by Casado of terminology such as accusing NGOs of being "human traffickers" while also
criticizing a perceived "do-goodism" in the Sánchez Government regarding its migration policy has
drawn comparisons to Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini by Steven Forti.[91][n 5]
He also voiced that he would like to neutralise movements calling for the historical memory
of Francisco Franco's crimes.[93]

A monarchist,[94] he vocally defended the institution and proclaimed "I will always defend the King
of Spain" in 2018 while he announced his opposition to opening a parliamentary commission
aiming to investigate the irregularities allegedly committed by King emeritus Juan Carlos
I that Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein revealed.[95] He has also considered as good move forward
getting used to include praises to the King of Spain in everyday conversations[n 6] and deemed acts
such as paying the pensions as a figurated way of saying Viva el Rey ("Long live the King").[97][96]

Electoral history
Electoral history of Pablo Casado
Election List Constituency List position Result

2007 Madrilenian regional election PP - 40th (out of 120)[98] Elected

2011 Spanish general election PP Ávila 2nd (out of 3)[99] Elected

Las Navas del Marqués local election, 2015 PP - 13th (out of 13)[100] Unelected

2015 Spanish general election PP Ávila 1st (out of 3)[101] Elected

2016 Spanish general election PP Ávila 1st (out of 3)[102] Elected

2019 Spanish general election PP Madrid 1st (out of 37) Elected

Explanatory notes
1. In 2000, at age 19, Casado authored "Lupus Ahujus", a piece in El búho, the journal of
the residential college he was enrolled in, the Colegio Mayor Elías Ahúja,[9] purposely
describing in an humouristic way the pattern of behaviour of the (male) contingent of residents
of the Colegio Mayor Elías Ahúja that he was part of. Through the metaphorical identification of
the members of the Colegio Mayor Elías Ahúja with a fictional species of wolf, the Lupus
Ahujus, Casado boasts about the Lupus Ahujus being a "rather evolved" species with superior
craneal mass compared to other species, and encouraged to go out in pack preying (female)
"wolves" (the most cherished prey) or, in a situation of shortage also (female) pigs, foxes or
hens.[10] This has been identified with elements of the rape culture.[11] The text also labelled
Romanian and Polish wolf subspecies as a "marginal chaste".[11][12]
2. Casado, who was the first member of the PP (along Esperanza Aguirre) to visit Carromero in
prison after the car crash in which Payá died, was accused by the Cuban media of allegedly
instigating the 2012 journey of Carromero and of being in the service of the Cuban opposition
in Miami.[19]
3. Companys declared the Catalan state within the Spanish Republic in 1934 and was sentenced
by the Court of Constitutional Guarantees of the Spanish Republic to 30 years of prison for
rebellion;[34][35] later, in 1936, he was amnestied by the government of the Popular Front and
returned to the Generalitat. After the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), in 1940, Companys, while
in exile, was captured in France by the Nazi police and sent back to Spain where he was
tortured and later executed by Franco's authorities. Casado later stated that his remarks were
referring to only the 1934 imprisonment of Companys, not to his execution in 1940.[36][37][38]
4. In words of Casado: «no se me exigió ni ir a clase ni hacer exámenes, así me informé al
principio del máster y ése fue mi caso.»[42]
5. In July 2018 Consuelo Rumí, the Spanish Secretary of State for Migrations, also compared
Casado to Salvini for he is also been critical of Spain's immigration policy.[92]
6. Be in the "street", in the "pub", in the "marketplace", in the "office" or in the "university".[96]
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 Party political offices
President of the New Generations
Preceded by Succeeded by
of the People's Party of Madrid
Eva Pavo Ana Isabel Pérez Baos
2005–2013
Vice Secretary General of
Preceded by Communication Succeeded by
Carlos Floriano of the People's Party Marta González Vázquez
2015–2018
Preceded by President of the People's Party
Incumbent
Mariano Rajoy 2018–present

Political offices
Vacant Leader of the Opposition
Title last held by Incumbent
2018–present
Pedro Sánchez