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Four of the seven deputies of Citizens in the Extremadura Assembly have rebelled against the national leadership of their formation for imposing on them the new appointments last week from Madrid after the resignation of the previous regional coordinator and spokesperson in the regional parliament,

.

In a letter registered this Wednesday, the deputies most closely related to Polo (Fernando Rodríguez, Marta Pérez Guillén, Joaquín Vicente Prieto and José María Casares) thus transferred to the Table of the Extremadura Assembly the constitution in which finally - in their opinion - The leadership of the Parliamentary Group remains.

This composition

, with positions different from those approved by the party's national leadership, which appointed David Salazar as the new president and spokesperson of Cs in the Assembly on the same afternoon as Polo's departure. as well as regional coordinator of training.

The official registration of the document by the 'discolos' deputies is, therefore, a full-blown rebellion against what was dictated by the national leadership.

Thus, in said document they state that the president becomes

(who enters Parliament after Polo's departure, although he has not yet taken possession of his act as deputy);

the spokesperson,

;

the deputy spokesperson,

and the general secretary,

.

In other words,

is excluded

from any responsibility, leaving him as a grassroots deputy.

The other three orange deputies who do not sign the document are David Salazar himself, Fernando Baselga and Encarnación Martín.

With this movement, the parliamentary group of Ciudadanos

in the face of the rest of the legislature and the internal crisis unleashed after the departure of Cayetano Polo, who resigned alleging internal disagreements with the national leadership, opens even more.

At the institutional level, this division will not affect voting in the Extremadura Assembly as the PSOE governs with an absolute majority.

On the other hand,

, whose legislative pact includes the first two years for the Popular Party and the next two (from May 2021) for the orange formation.

The PSOE, which won the number of votes in the elections, has threatened on several occasions to present a motion of censure.

Possible expulsion

As EL MUNDO has learned, the four deputies close to the resigned former coordinator held a meeting this past Monday with the president of the Extremadura Assembly,

, to precisely evaluate the Extremadura Chamber's regulations and learn about the possibility, even, to be able to expel from the Parliamentary Group of the orange formation the three deputies who did not sign the document with the new appointments.

However, the national leadership could also take the initiative in the next few hours and initiate

that would end up expelling these four deputies from the party, who in that case could end up forming a mixed group in the Extremadura parliament.

Cayetano Polo wielded last week to justify his resignation as the head of Ciudadanos en Extremadura that he maintained internal differences with the national leadership, both when it came to internal appointments and because of the election pacts that the party carried out in the May elections However, his departure is also part of the

in most of the autonomous communities to place people related to Inés Arrimada, among whom was not Cayetano Polo, at who wanted to be replaced for months by David Salazar.

In his farewell to the media, the former regional coordinator praised and thanked the figure of Albert Rivera - and that of Fran Hervías, former secretary of organization - but at no time did he mention the new leader of the orange party.

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