Pablo Casado Blanco (1 February 1981-) was Leader of the Spanish People's Party from 21 July 2018, succeeding Mariano Rajoy.
Biography[]
Pablo Casado Blanco was born in Palencia, Castile and Leon, Spain in 1981, and he served as leader of the People's Party of Spain's youth wing in the Community of Madrid during the early 2000s. He went on to serve in the Assembly of Madrid from 2007 to 2009 and then in the Chamber of Deputies from 2011, and he became leader of the People's Party and Leader of the Opposition in 2018 following the resignation of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy during a corruption scandal. Casado was a neoconservative who was friends with Jose Maria Aznar and Esperanza Aguirre, and he self-identified as a "liberal-conservative". He opposed abortion rights, euthanasia, gender studies, and the vilification of Francisco Franco, and he supported Hispanidad, family values, fiscal counterreform, a heavy hand against Catalan independence, and keeping Franco's corpse in the Valle de los Caidos.