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PSOE is that of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, president of the Lugo Provincial Council since 2007 : “He is one of the few leaders who continues to have the support of the voters and he kept his position in the elections, so he has possibilities.” On the other hand, Francisco Caamaño , former Minister of Justice, could also take the step and run as a candidate: “He has the advantage of being better known nationally than Besteiro, but the truth is that he only has the votes of his province, La Coruna. The sources consulted also do not rule out that Pachi Vázquez himself decides to run for re-election again: “He has not publicly said that he is not going to run, because if he sees that he has some minimal option, he will try again.”According to what leaders and members of the PP apparatus tell El Confidencial Digital , Luis Bárcenas always had detractors within the party, since “he never earned everyone's trust.” However, attempts by some leaders to remove him from money management were unsuccessful. “ He always managed to return, thanks to the authority of Manuel Fraga's closest circle ,” he explains. That influence "has meant that it has always been there, from the origins of the PP until the 'Gürtel case' was uncovered." His first position: manager Luis Bárcenas came to the party in 1982, the year in which he was appointed manager of the then Popular Alliance. The president of the formation, Manuel Fraga, gave him that position, of great importance, advised by his friend and trusted person Luis Sanchís , the treasurer.
The sources consulted by ECD assure that “even then Bárcenas raised many misgivings within the party: he was a difficult person to deal with , but also they did not know very well where he came from.” One of those who was most distrustful was the South Korea Phone Number general secretary of the party at that time, Arturo García-Tizón . The current PP deputy for the province of Toledo finally managed to get him to leave office in 1987: "García Tizón agreed with Bárcenas himself to leave him, thus managing to avoid an 'internal war' in the party ." The successor was Juan Ávila. Constant inputs and outputs The leaders who had distrusted him saw how Bárcenas returned to the party after the refoundation congress . The new treasurer, Rosendo Naseiro , who had succeeded Ángel Sanchís, managed to convince Fraga to count on him again. According to the sources consulted, the president and founder trusted Naseiro, “ whom he knew well from having been neighbors in Villalba ,” and he had no doubts despite the subsequent problems that the treasurer had with Justice: “Naseiro was arrested a few days after the congress and he was placed in preventive detention,” they recall. I
n 1993, with Bárcenas as manager, Álvaro de Lapuerta became the party's treasury , and he would remain in office until 2008 . In that period, according to information from the newspaper El País, is when the accounting in 'B' and the payment of bonuses to the party leadership was carried out . However, the sources consulted assure: “ We were never aware of that. Although it is true that there was still some misgivings about Bárcenas .” Rajoy appointed him treasurer to please Fraga Despite the distrust that Bárcenas caused in some of the PP leaders, Mariano Rajoy decided to appoint him treasurer to replace Lapuerta , leaving the management of the party to Cristóbal Páez. The leaders and members of the party apparatus consulted by ECD report that “ Rajoy made this decision as a gesture, a deference, towards Manuel Fraga , who always trusted him and brought him into the party supported by his most intimate collaborators.” “He used the position to favor Sanchís and Naseiro” The cited sources assure that “ Bárcenas did not forget those who had helped him from the beginning in the party, and he was always willing to use his influence, first as manager and then as treasurer of the PP, to help Ángel Sanchís and Rosendo Naseiro.