The relationship between Inés Arrimadas and Albert Rivera has become very cold and distant.

The leader of Ciudadanos has revealed that her last conversation was "at Christmas" and that since then they have not even crossed a WhatsApp message.

And that despite the fact that in this time the party has gone through the most delicate moments in its history.

From the electoral blow in his fiefdom of Catalonia, to the current escalation of desertions in his ranks,

This lack of communication is an example of the political gap that is also tearing Citizens from the inside and that explains that more than 40 leaders and public officials aligned with Rivera have made the decision to leave, many of them to the PP.

As a more media paradigm, Toni Cantó is pointed out because of his popularity, but due to the political repercussions, Fran Hervías should be mentioned, because he was secretary of the Organization of Cs during Rivera's stage.

Now he has an office in Genoa and is piloting the recruitment of leaders of Citizens for the PP.

In his goal is to tempt a hundred.

This context, in which Ciudadanos is fighting for its political survival, with the great challenge of the Community of Madrid in one month as a litmus test, has not even been enough to bring Arrimadas and Rivera closer together, who do not cross calls no messages from a conversation they had at Christmas.

From which it can also be deduced that it is not helping him either.

"Nothing happened, we'll talk," the leader of Ciudadanos has played down in an interview in Al Rojo Vivo, in La Sexta.

"We are not fighting," he said, insisting that he has "no problem" with anyone and that he gets along with everyone.

In this time of bad news, there has been information published about an alleged rapprochement by Rivera with the PP.

Asked expressly if he thinks that the former president of Ciudadanos is behind the PP's operation to engulf the orange party, Arrimadas has said: "I want to believe that not."

An open answer that clearly does not clear the suspicions.

Arrimadas has explained the desertions due to possible changes of opinion but has stressed that she has not moved at this time because she thought yesterday "the same as today."

"Maybe in this party there were people who were in Ciudadanos but they weren't from Ciudadanos," he reproached.

"I wish you all the best, that you are very happy and that you help in your new positions in whatever way you can."

The leader of Ciudadanos has reproached that there are PP leaders whose priority is to "attack Ciudadanos" to try to maintain their status and has countered that they would have to "focus" on what "unites" them.

Despite this threat of absorption, Arrimadas has declared the usefulness of Ciudadanos because "it represents the third Spain" and has predicted that there is room for a political party of "center, liberal, clean and free" that offers Spaniards what they want. like "one of these and another of these."

And that exemplifies with low taxes and social policies.

In Madrid's electoral key, Arrimadas has reaffirmed the position that Ciudadanos has been expressing for 10 days: he wants to reissue the government agreement with Ayuso.

However, it has added nuances.

He wants the government program to be the same that was signed with Ciudadanos in 2019 and that it "continue to run until the end of the royal legislature."

As if nothing had happened.

Thus, he has warned that an investiture of Ayuso "will not be at zero cost and accepting anything from the PP", because the priority they have for the Community of Madrid is to continue developing what he considers to be a "good agreement "and it was working.

In fact, Arrimadas has claimed that part of the success that Ayuso boasts is also the merit of Ciudadanos, recalling, for example, that the Ministry of Economy or the Ministry of Transport was headed by councilors from his party.

Arrimadas has also insisted on ruling out a possible pact with a PSOE government under Ángel Gabilondo.

Because the socialist candidate "goes in a pack with Iglesias" and Más Madrid, "like yogurts when you go to a supermarket, you have to bring both."

Well, in this he has been blunt: "With Iglesias of course not."

Moreover, the leader of Ciudadanos has warned that the risk of not having representation in the Madrid Assembly may mean that Ayuso will run out of partners with whom to govern.

"If we do not enter, Mr. Iglesias will enter the Government," he has warned.

With this policy of pacts, Arrimadas offers itself as the only force capable of driving away the "extremes", both Podemos and Vox, and as a guarantee of being able to apply "moderate policies", "lowering taxes but reinforcing policies social".

In line with this, he regretted that they have not been able to explain his good management in governments.

"We explain it fatally," he said.

A self-criticism that he also makes regarding the motion of censure in Murcia, which he considers justified by the cases of corruption but which acknowledges that it was "not understood" among his voters because they did not know how to explain it.

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