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Debate without palliative.

Orange

tear

where it hurts the most to bleed: at home, in Catalonia.

The formation went from being the first force in 2017 to the penultimate, losing 30 seats [from 36 to six] and 955,613 votes [from 1,109,732 to 154,119].

The formation that managed to defeat the independence movement in votes and seats goes back more than a decade - its 2012 results worsened: nine seats and 275,007 votes - and, what is even worse, loses its role as a constitutionalist reference in the community, when it is surpassed clearly by Vox [11 deputies].

The disaster is such that even the CUP (nine) far outstrips the

oranges

.

Inés Arrimadas's project is the protagonist of a cataclysm, precisely in the post-Arrimadas era in Catalonia, which threatens to cause earthquakes in the party, since there are already positions and members of the formation that demand to purge responsibilities for the hit, and not only target the candidate Carlos Carrizosa or the Catalan leadership, but instead put the focus on the national leadership.

They point out that training has shown a greater hierarchy or verticalization in this last stage, and members of various territories consulted by this newspaper ask that responsibilities be clarified in the national direction.

An "urgent" meeting

Orange

positions

already pointed this Sunday to

Carlos Cuadrado

, first deputy secretary, and director of the campaign.

The name of

José María Espejo

, assistant deputy secretary,

was also noted

.

They believe that the result is so overwhelming that it does not allow any exoneration.

There are other voices who believe that opening the party on the channel so soon is counterproductive.

They ask for coldness and analysis.

The seriousness of the moment is evidenced by the fact that as soon as the count began, Arrimadas called for an "urgent" meeting of the National Executive for this Monday, in which, despite the epidemiological situation of the coronavirus, presence is requested as far as possible.

Of course, the sources consulted point out that the wound would not call into question the leadership of Arrimadas, but it would put into question those who have made political and strategy decisions.

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However, the firmness and depth of self-criticism and the decisions that are made will be decisive to know how far a tension rises that this Sunday was already throbbing in the game.

Members of the party consulted by this newspaper recall that the formation decided to skip its primaries and change its candidate, Lorena Roldán, to Carrizosa.

Then, the polls, even with Roldán, gave them about 20 deputies.

The maneuver, which caused the resignation of two of the five members of the Guarantee Commission, including the president, sought to give a boost, plug leaks to other parties and win back voters.

A campaign "disaster"

The Ciudadanos campaign also started erratically.

Internally, it caused disbelief and rejection of the "Vote hug" poster, with photos that caused all kinds of jokes and that the party withdrew, or the one that sported the slogan "Get independent. Independence is that no one forces you to choose which flags you carry in your heart. For the true independence of the good ".

"The campaign has been a disaster", agree several members of the party.

Internally they believe that the trajectory managed to correct itself somewhat with the videos released especially on networks, with the role of Carrizosa in the debates and the solvency of Arrimadas in the interviews in the media.

Still, the great nightmare at the top was low turnout.

They knew that this was a condemnation of their aspirations.

Demobilization, if it was massive, would be more pronounced in the cities, its main fishing ground.

They clung to this in Ciudadanos from the first moment, by way of justification, on a night where they played the role of great loser.

Hecatomb the one of 14-F only comparable to the one they suffered in November 2019, in the electoral repetition of the general elections, where 47 congressional deputies were left.

Arrimadas: "We have not been able"

"We have not been able to mobilize the moderate and constitutional vote that Ciudadanos represents," was Arrimadas' reflection, whose self-criticism did not go further.

"Hard years are coming because separatism has seen its parliamentary majority strengthened because we have had the worst turnout in the history of democracy in Catalonia."

Throughout the campaign, the members of Ciudadanos have always looked in the rear-view mirror.

Knowing that their fight was not in victory, they raised all the alarms at the possibility of being overwhelmed by Vox.

They took for granted the

surprise

of Santiago Abascal's party to the PP, but they trusted that it would not swallow them up.

Ciudadanos is immersed in a repositioning that supposes a re-dimensioning of its status and its influence, after all or nothing that Albert Rivera played and lost.

The last electoral appointments have been followed by loss of electoral muscle, with debates about a possible alliance with the PP -which has already been consummated in the Basque Country and Navarra- and with leaks from positions such as Lorena Roldán herself, who attended the elections Catalan as

number two

of the Popular Party.

The goal to keep the pulse is in Congress.

The turn taken by Arrimadas, bordering on Rivera's strategy and opening up to dialogue and consensus on some points with the PSOE, they believe in the party, is the way to try to maintain vital signs and convey the image that they can continue to be influential .

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