Joaquin Calomarde - Resignation From The PP

Resignation From The PP

On 29 March 2007 Calomarde published an article in the newspaper El País. This contravened a PP directive which the party had issued days earlier advising its members to cease cooperation with the newspaper following statements by its owner Jesús de Polanco, which the party considered offensive. Consequently the PP parliamentary party removed Calomarde from all positions held in the parliament. Days later, Calomarde published another article in El País, criticising the leadership's positions on terrorism and accusing them of using the issue for purely electoral ends. On 14 April 2007 Calomarde published an open letter to the PP leadership announcing his resignation from the party. However he retained his parliamentary seat and subsequently sat in the mixed group of deputies which consists of parties unable to form a technical group of five deputies. He did not stand in the 2008 election.

At the moment he teaches philosophy at the IES Ramon Llull, Valencia.