• Politics.PP and Citizens reach an agreement in the Basque Country with Alfonso Alonso as a candidate for 'lehendakari'

Citizens are "very satisfied" to have reached an agreement with the PP to stand for the Basque regional elections by the PP. The orange formation ensures that it will have two starting positions, the numbers two of the lists by Vizcaya and Álava (probably, Luis Gordillo ).

But the fact that Cs has announced it has relieved the Basque PP, which has tweeted: "The proposal announced by Citizens about the candidacies for a possible electoral coalition in the Basque Country is unassuming, it is not related to the reality of each party here and is not part of any agreement with the PP ". This is a torpedo from Alfonso Alonso to the waterline of the orange formation. This criticism has taken by surprise, in addition, to the direction of Genoa.

The negotiating teams of both formations should now be discussing what the coalition will be called, but instead they are gathered to save the situation. The PP wants to be called simply "PP-Cs", since the oranges have rejected " Basque Country Suma " or " Basques Suman ", while the popular discard " Better united ". But the Arrimadas team is interested in including leaders of UPyD and Basque civil society, and does not want the acronym to prevent it. Among the main contributions would be that of Maite Pagazaurtundua , which could close one of the ballots, according to Genoa sources.

They have until tomorrow to close the name of the confluence. In addition, a commission will be created that will elaborate the electoral program of the coalition and will delimit that both formations will be able to vote separately in the Basque Parliament and present different initiatives.

In this way, the team of Inés Arrimadas completely recycles, since until now it demanded that the pact be produced in all the autonomies, or in none. And now he has agreed to close the Basque coalition even though the same will not happen in Galicia . This is how José María Espejo , the secretary general of Cs in the Lower House, justified: "It cannot be that the constitutionalist Basques are deprived of this possibility by a 'no' of Mr. Feijóo to do the same."

Because the truth is that the coalition will not occur in Galicia in any case. And Ciudadanos argues that it will not be integrated into the lists of Alberto Núñez Feijóo - under the PP brand, dry - as proposed by the president of the Xunta . This has been assured today in the Mirror Congress.

In a press conference, Espejo, right hand of Inés Arrimadas, has argued that "if Feijóo remains in his 'no' to the coalition, Cs will be present in the Galician" with his own ballot. "Cs will not be diluted in the acronym of the PP, that can not happen," he insisted.

The spokeswoman for Citizens, Inés Arrimadas, has warned the PP that its refusal to participate in coalition to the Galician elections may have consequences in Catalonia, where the popular are very interested in running alongside the 'oranges'. In an interview on Antena 3, Arrimadas has threatened to close the door to the PP to a possible coalition in the Catalan elections, not yet called, although in Genoa they are convinced that there will be agreement. "It is evident that you cannot ask in one place what you do not give in another", insisted Mirror, in any case.

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