• Background: Internal tension in Cs delays the government pact in Alicante

The tension that exists between the secretary of organization of Citizens in the Community, Emilio Argüeso , and the syndic of the party in the Cortes, Toni Cantó , threatens to blow the game through the air, with increasingly frequent internal clashes in the cast of the power structures that the oranges have achieved after the results of the last municipalities. A good example was what was experienced this Monday in Alicante, regarding the appointment of the nine advisors that Cs will have in the Diputación during the next four years.According to this newspaper, the two provincial deputies, Javier Gutiérrez and Julia Parra , presented a list that not only did not have the approval of Cantó, but corrected the proposal that the regional leader of Cs had made last Friday. And all this taking advantage of the fact that his boss in the Cortes is spending a few days on vacation in Prague.

More specifically, the list given yesterday to the president of the provincial institution, Carlos Mazón (PP), was made at the request of Argüeso, and withdrew three names ( José Ángel Guerrero , Noelia Pomare s and Carlota Woodward ) to place three others: David Ivars , Manuel Molina and Pilar Muñoz. The first is coordinator of the group of Benissa and the second coordinator of the beach area in Alicante; Muñoz, on the other hand, is the sister of the deputy of Cs in the Courts of Castilla-La Mancha, David Muñoz Zapata , and would have reserved a place of “eventual support and advice staff”.

It is not the only change introduced by Argüeso. The secretary of organization also promotes the entrepreneur and provincial institutional coordinator, César Martínez , to place him as "coordinator of the Infrastructure area" when in the list of Cantado was as "support attached to the regional offices"; The replacement is Rafa Vives , former PP and candidate in Daya Vieja, which goes from Infrastructure to regions with a salary reduction of about 20,000 euros per year. An advisor in the Diputación de Alicante has a salary of between 40 and 60,000 euros , according to his level of responsibility.

Party sources tried to close the crisis in the middle of the afternoon, claiming that it was "an agreed list" between the two sensibilities. However, EL MUNDO has been able to verify that Canto presented on Friday a definitive signed list of his handwriting and letter , and that the new relationship of names of Argüeso has caused discomfort among the supporters of the regional leader in the province. In both proposals, by the way, the Vicente Castillo Council, which is a member of the general council of the party and has been a candidate for Tarragona, appears as coordinator of the group in Cs.

A constant war

The tensions between the supporters of Argüeso and those of Cantó have been constant in recent months, with obvious plans such as the one that the five councilors of the party in Alicante, similar to the regional coordinator, made to their regional leader when he went to Elche to sign the pact to govern with the PP in the Diputación. The reality is that an underground war is being waged in Citizens in the Valencian Community, with Argüeso trying to consolidate its structure against the emerging figure of Cantó. Until now it seemed that the balance was on the side of the regional leader after the appointment of Argüeso as territorial senator, but yesterday's imposition of the party coordinator, backed by the number 3 of citizens at the national level, Fran Hervías , and by the apparatus institutional is a serious setback to the authority of Cantó and leaves his supporters in a very delicate position.

The initial agreement, according to the same sources, was that Argüeso would have free track in the Alicante City Council, where the vice mayor, Mari Carmen Sánchez , is from her rope, while the Provincial would be a land for Cantado to place the team that he considered appropriate , with some demands of the party such as former deputy José Cano as chief of staff. That pact was broken Monday with the presentation of an alternative list that not only signed the candidate of Cs related to Argüeso in the provincial institution, the deputy of Infrastructure Javier Gutiérrez, but also the one placed by Cantado, the vice president of the Diputación Julia Parra , due to the pressure.

Cs has obtained nine advisors in the Diputación de Alicante with only two deputies. Their votes have been essential for the PP to reissue the presidency of the institution , with Carlos Mazón as president against the most voted party in the province, the PSOE. The distribution of trust positions has raised a barrage of criticism since the opposition, which considers it "disproportionate."

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