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Alfonso Alonso's decision not to accept, for now, the agreement for the coalition with Citizens in the Basque elections on April 5 has completely divided the Basque Country PP.
On the one hand, the faithful to the regional president point out that the confluence subtracts votes and that their organization is not being respected. On the other, a group of popular leaders of Euskadi stands against the "ordago" of Alonso and, in declarations to THE WORLD, they ask him to accept the pact with the orange formation because it is the first stone to achieve a more important objective : the "recast" of the center right.
Among the members who rebel against the rebellion of Alonso are Raquel González , president of the PP in Vizcaya and spokesman of the party in the City of Bilbao; Beatriz Fanjul , the only Basque national deputy; Carlos Urquijo , former Government delegate in the Basque Country; Íñigo Arcauz , candidate for the general elections for Guipúzcoa; Carlos García , deputy spokesman for the party in Bilbao. In addition to some former offices of Guipúzcoa, a province in which the PP no longer has strength.
"You have to defend the coalition to death," says Raquel González . "It is a positive pact for the Basques in which the PP may have lost out on something, but that will serve to achieve something much bigger: the national confluence of the center-right," adds the leader of the PP in Biscay.
"If someone thinks it is more important than the game, there comes the problem. Things are discussed in the offices, never in public," he says. "Alonso has put at risk the future of the center-right by some misunderstandings. I do not say that he has done it consciously, but we cannot let everyone be aware of our internal chapter," he insists.
Fanjul: "This noise does us no favor"
Vizcaya deputy in Congress Beatriz Fanjul goes directly to Alonso: "The logical thing is that you are present at the meeting, if you want to be part of the agreement." "If the pre-agreement seemed excessive, he would have defended otherwise," he said. "This noise is not doing us any favor, and it is uncomfortable for affiliates. All the noise creates a disaffection in people," he laments.
Carlos Urquijo . Former Government delegate in the Basque Country, he defends the coalition agreement with Citizens together to attend the Basque elections. Current president of the Esteban de Garibay Association , believes that we must stop "looking at the navel" and that what matters right now "is not the people", but "the project."
The coalition "is the only way to raise a right-wing center that does not spend its best moments in Euskadi." "And, as far as I know, a sum is never subtracted," he says.
Carlos García thinks the same. "For me it is exciting to join forces," said the deputy spokesman of the PP in the City of Bilbao. "That spirit that united us to fight against ETA must also unite us to stop this toxic nationalism that, already without guns, pushes towards the rupture." "Alonso is in time to redirect the situation," he adds.
Íñigo Arcauz , PP candidate for the general elections for Guipúzcoa, affirms that "practically since María San Gil left , the center-right has been weakening in the Basque Country". "And to strengthen it, we should join PP and Citizens, and even the moderate part of Vox," he adds.
"With Citizens we take the first step towards reconstruction and it is totally necessary," he says. "I understand Alonso, because the PP has been very generous with Citizens, but this is a small sacrifice for a greater good, that future agreement with Citizens so that Casado is the president of Spain," he says.
However, there are also many who in the party consider that "giving away" positions to citizens placing them in preferential places on the lists will reduce electoral support.
Damborenea: "The image we give will take its toll"
The division is also seen in the territorial distribution .: Vizcaya is more prone to Casado, while Álava mostly closes ranks around Alonso, and Guipúzcoa remains beheaded after the departure of Borja Sémper .
"The coalition with Citizens will not only not add, but will subtract, and much," says popular parliamentarian Antón Damborenea . "No one understands anything, neither in the game nor in the street," he says, convinced that from now on, whatever happens, "it doesn't matter."
"The image we are giving will pass us a huge bill at the polls, and ally with a party that makes a flag against the concert and that in Euskadi has no representation, much more," he adds.
"It will be a disaster." Damborenea recalls that Citizens have no representation in the Basque Country. "It's a game that was dead and we have resurrected it by giving them places."
Javier de Andrés , former deputy general of Álava, former delegate of the Government and who was also general secretary of the party in Álava, believes that Genoa's affront is not directed at Alfonso Alonso, "but rather at the entire Basque PP".
"The party in Euskadi is going to defend mostly Alonso and his attitude towards Genoa because we must defend having relevance in the decisions taken." "The voter must perceive that we have relevance, but will think that their vote to the Basque PP is useless."
"You cannot make a coalition without having a party," says former deputy Leopoldo Barreda , very critical of the coalition with Citizens. "One plus zero is one, and if the one is distributed, you will tell me how we are going to stay. It will ballast our project," he says.
Other prominent leaders of the party in the Basque Country, who prefer to remain anonymous, are very hurt with Genoa for how they are "nouning" the Basque PP making a coalition that is "an infinite clumsiness."
"This party, which has resisted for years with sweat and tears, does not deserve this." "It's very painful what's happening."
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