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The current spokeswoman for Citizens in Galicia and member of the National Manager, Beatriz Pino, will be the candidate of this party for the Presidency of the Xunta de Galicia in the next autonomous elections of April 5 after having imposed as the most voted in a process of very close primary among six candidates.

Pino, former head of Autonomous Communication of Citizens and that in the general elections of 2019 was elected deputy in the Congress of Deputies for the province of Pontevedra, was considered the official candidate in the primary process and finally obtained the highest number of votes .

After knowing this result, this Friday will be officially presented at an event planned at the Cultural Center Marcos Valcárcel de Ourense in which it will be covered by the MEP of Citizens Adrián Vázquez and the president and spokesperson of the Parliamentary Group Cs, Inés Arrimadas.

The primary process allowed the vote to around 980 members of Cs in the community - after the last update of the census - between Wednesday and Thursday and exercised their right, according to official sources, 56.41%, a low participation that from within the party they interpret as a result of the internal division that is lived within the orange formation.

Ciudadanos Galicia opened this process of primaries, which this Friday has just been closed, after a failed attempt to promote an electoral alliance with the Galician PP to attend the elections together. The state and Galician management of the orange formation was in favor of a joint list, but this proposal met with the opposition of the leader of the Galician PP. Alberto Núñez Feijóo was willing to open the lists of his party for Cs charges, but at no time to renounce his acronym or his leadership.

Critical sector

These primaries highlighted an internal struggle between several critical sectors with the state and Galician leadership. In front of Pino as official candidate, David Álvarez, José Manuel Blanco, Juan Antonio Díaz, Jorge Marín and Manuel Jesús Morgade met. The number of applicants reached seven, but last week the voluntary resignation of his candidacy from Jorge Alberto García Iglesias, a member of A Coruña, was formalized.

The majority sector among critics is headed by the candidacy of Morgade, who received the support of the internal movement 'Citizens are you' and García Iglesias himself, who, according to sources close to this sector, decided to withdraw his candidacy to promote a "de unity "around the figure of Morgade.

Morgade, an affiliate of Vigo, was one of the candidates for compromisarios by the province of Pontevedra under the candidacy of 'Cs eres tú' and combines a critical voice against the current message of the orange formation at the national level of confluence with the PP. Faced with supporters, such as Beatriz Pino herself, of fostering a union of the center-right political space with the 'popular' of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this faction of Cs Galicia is committed to a formation of "center, reformist, fighting for policies Liberals in Galicia. "

In this current many councilors of Cs in Galicia are aligned as the two of Lugo, Olga Louzao and Juan Vidal; to mayor of A Coruña, Mónica Martínez; or the only representative of Pontevedra, Goyo Revenga, currently expedited for having given his favorable vote to municipal budgets of the bipartite government BNG-PSOE; as well as Montse Lama, provincial deputy of Ourense, and the former secretary of Programs and Sectorial Action of Cs Galicia, Ángeles Fernández Ramil.

Among the critics, José Manuel Blanco López, a former head of the Cs list by Lugo in the November general elections and who is part of the critical group promoted by the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Francisco Igea

Cs, weak party in Galicia

As a candidate elected by the militancy, Pino must lead a nomination for the regional ones that does not start from an easy position, since Cs does not currently have any deputy in the Parliament of Galicia. In the 2016 regional elections, her candidate, the journalist of Vigo Cristina Losada, who was not affiliated or part of the organization chart of the party, achieved only 48,103 votes, 3.38% of those cast in those elections.

After that electoral failure, Losada did not continue as leader of the party in Galicia and during the last three and a half years the party barely achieved a few months of stability under the baton of Laureano Bermejo, organization secretary related to the former state leader, Albert Rivera.

Several spokesmen passed through the group, such as Olga Louzao, who resigned along with the then head of Programs. Shortly afterwards, the Institutional Action Manager, María José García Hildalgo, would also leave the training, and after the municipal elections last May 2019, there were also resignations in Pontevedra - six members of the group and its former leader, María Rey, they were at the same time - or Vigo - with the resignation of half of the local board of directors, including its coordinator, Gregorio García.

A grassroots militant will dispute the leadership of Arrimadas and Igea

The citizen of Ximo Aparici Citizens will compete for the presidency of Citizens against Inés Arrimadas and Francisco Igea after presenting their candidacy for the fifth assembly of the party that will ratify the new board.

Aparici is a militant of Tavernes de la Valldigna, a town in Valencia, according to the Las Provincias newspaper and confirmed party sources. This third candidate was positioned against the pacts with the PP "to present joint candidacies in the Basque Country, Catalonia or Galicia".

In this way, the militants of the Orange Party will have to choose, on the weekend of March 7 and 8, between the current spokesperson in Congress, Inés Arrimadas; the vice president of Castilla y León, Francisco Igea, and the militant Aparici. According to the statutes of the training, it is not necessary to present guarantees to formalize the candidacy. | SERVIMEDIA

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