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The turn that Inés Arrimadas pursues in Ciudadanos, to turn the formation back into a party that can agree on the right and the left indistinctly, opened a perspective in the Government of having a new partner with whom to agree.

The problems that the oranges have encountered, the leaks, the relationship with the PP ... have frozen that perspective that allowed Moncloa to loosen his ties with the nationalists in Congress.

Hence, the Executive encourages Arrimadas to "not be afraid" to break with the inheritance received from Albert Rivera and mark distances with the PP.

Albert Rivera, in his last stage at the head of Ciudadanos, bet everything to compete with the PP to become the reference of the center-right.

Pacts with the popular ones were prioritized and all understanding with Pedro Sánchez's PSOE was short-circuited.

The bet went wrong.

Rivera left and Arrimadas arrived, who seeks to recover that essence of the 'hinge' party of understanding to the left and right.

Thus, in February-March of last year, before the state of alarm, Ciudadanos opened a permanent communication channel with Moncloa, which is still in force.

A bet that the Government perceived as an opportunity to add a new partner in the variable geometry of Congress.

"I was confident that Arrimadas would do a complicated job such as getting rid of Mr. Rivera's hindrance, who is still there. They have to have a more own voice, more ability to break and have less fear," said María Jesús Montero, minister Treasury and spokesman for the Executive, in an interview in the Ser. "In politics you have to take risks", he added, expressing that, for example, the 'oranges' lived a situation of "humiliation" in Murcia.

The Government still trusts in a possible understanding with Citizens in Congress, despite the fact that the orange parliamentary group is broken and has already lost a deputy, who has gone to the mixed, remaining at nine members, and more exits such as the one are not ruled out. of the deputy Marta Martín.

All in all, Moncloa's message is clear: they ask Arrimadas to try "to fulfill the vocation that the voters had placed in the party, which could be a hinge formation that depending on the circumstances of support for left or right governments."

This change of course is clear and the bet in which Arrimadas is still committed.

This was broadcast in the national Executive that held the training last Monday to try to close the crises opened by the failed motion of censure in Murcia.

"Cs is not the PP, it was a useful party. We bet on the right to beat Sánchez and what happened to us between April and November 2019 happened to us," they point out from the orange dome, alluding to the fall from 57 to 10 seats in the electoral repetition of the general elections.

"We were always a center party that could steal votes from the Socialists."

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