Politics.The 'barons' of Cs demand that Arrimadas limit criticism of the PP
Politics.The Government asks Arrimadas "not to be afraid" and "take risks" to distance himself from the PP
Castilla y León: The future of the Government, in the hands of three attorneys of the Mixed Group
He started the week with a stroke in his eye.
A proof, perhaps, of the tension experienced by Inés Arrimadas since last March 10, when Ciudadanos allied with the PSOE to promote a motion of censure against the PP government in Murcia.
A decision that caused an entire political earthquake in Spain and that has plunged Ciudadanos into a major crisis. In recent days there have been leaks and dismissals of positions for what they consider a "sanchista turn."
Exits that erode and wear away
stan to the formation, something that they assume and take for granted in the dome, but that does not stop the decision to distance themselves from the PP to try to position themselves again in the political center.
To show itself again as a hinge party or "bridge between PP and PSOE". The current leadership of Ciudadanos is very aware of the
debacle
in the general elections of November 10, where the strategy imposed by
Albert rivera
to compete to lead the center-right and short-circuit all understanding with the PSOE of
Pedro Sanchez
he left the party with 10 deputies - in April he had drawn 57 - "Ciudadanos was a useful party because it could support both," says a member of the Executive.
"That strategy was shown not to work."
Distance from PP
Since his arrival to the presidency of Cs, Arrimadas has opted to retrace the path and turn towards that vocation of center that was in the DNA
Orange
in its leap to the national sphere at the end of 2014, positioning itself as a "bridge between PP and PSOE." Hence, before the pandemic of the
coronavirus
In March 2020, Arrimadas opened a communication channel with La Moncloa - with Rivera there was no dialogue whatsoever - and now intensifies a strategy of distancing himself from the PP, in its purpose of turning towards that alleged center. the
failed
motion of censure in Murcia that, however, has left the party bruised, with internal criticism and a constant trickle of exits. "Cs is not the PP, it was a useful party. We bet on the right to win over Sánchez and what happened to us that happened to us between April and November 2019, "they point out from the top, alluding to the fall from 57 to 10 seats.
"We were always a center party that could steal votes from the Socialists."
Speak the 'hard core'
That spirit that was fading until it disappeared for Rivera's purpose of trying to give the
sorpasso
to
Pablo Casado
As the leader of the center-right, it is the one that Arrimadas clings to to recover the vital signs of a party in extreme weakness. Leaders of the formation remember that among the first decisions of Arrimadas, when she led the party without yet being elected president, in December 2019, was to bet on an understanding of Citizens, PP and PSOE - what he baptized as "
way 221
"- To avoid
United we can
and the nationalists will determine the government.
A sample from the beginning, they wield in the party, of the purpose of their centrist strategy that, therefore, they believe, should not surprise those who militate in the formation
Orange
.At
hard core
of the party consider that the PP's approaches to
Vox
-how it can happen after the next elections in Madrid or as it happened this Thursday in Murcia with the former deputies of the party of
Santiago Abascal
- They leave a political space in the center, which is the one they bet on. "Appeal to those people who possibly chose to stay at home in the face of extremes," they reflect.
A space that in the case of elections in the
Madrid's community
It is also the objective of the PSOE with
Angel Gabilondo
. "We are the bridge between the PSOE and the PP. One hand stretched out to one side and the other to the other. We have been demonstrating it with our actions since 10-N," he said this Thursday
Edmundo bal
, spokesman for Cs and already a candidate in the Madrid elections.
"In the correct way"
"After the last general elections it was clear that we were the Spanish political center that can agree on both sides. I wish that those of us who stay [in Cs] believe what the center is," he deepened, after meeting the
last Exit
of the party, that of the deputy
Marta Martin
, spokesperson on Education issues. "We are and continue on the right path and from here we will not move. Whoever does not believe this is not in the correct party and leave as soon as possible." Arrimadas' strategy of marking distances with the PP to try to place Cs in a scenario of pacts with
popular
and socialists is, moreover, well seen in the Government, since they consider that it can place the
oranges
as a new possible partner in the face of doubts generated by the degree of belligerence that it may adopt
ERC
at
Congress
after agreeing with
Junts
and the
CUP
the Catalan government. "I was confident that Arrimadas would do a complicated job such as getting rid of Rivera's hindrance. They have to have a more own voice, more capacity to break and have less fear," the Government maintains pressure, speaking of
Maria Jesus Montero
, spokesman for the Executive.
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