Spain: Conservative party rift grows into all-out battle

Published February 18, 2022 5:08 AM

By ARITZ PARRA
Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Months of simmering tensions within Spain’s main opposition party has come to a head with an exchange of ‘friendly fire’ between the conservatives’ national leadership and the regional chief of Madrid, a rising star in the Popular Party. The internal rift deepened Friday with fresh allegations that party members tried to hire detectives to investigate a facemask-supplying contract brokered during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic by a relative of Madrid’s regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Díaz Ayuso has denied any wrongdoing and painted the investigation as a political vendetta. The crisis comes as the PP is struggling to hold back the rise of a far-right party.

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