Politics Casado affirms that he offered Ciudadanos a union "of the two directions" and Arrimadas replies that it is only "verbiage"
The leader of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has delved further into the offer that Pablo Casado made to her in the summer of 2020 to join the PP. She has confirmed that, in effect, there was a conversation between the two in which the president of the PP tempted her, but has acknowledged that the proposal did not materialize in a specific position because she rejected it and "did not give rise" to that.
"I could be doing right now what other defectors have done of being in the PP criticizing Ciudadanos, of course, but if I don't do it, it's because I don't want to," he said during an interview in
Más de Uno
de Onda Cero.
Arrimadas refers to an episode that Casado revealed last April, when the
popular
leader
after the Basque and Galician elections he sought the "merger" of PP and Ciudadanos through an agreement to unite "the two directions" under the same structure and the discipline of Genoa. With the promise of receiving them with "all the generosity". This is what Casado described with "We have offered Inés Arrimadas everything."
Asked about this, Arrimadas has avoided revealing "private conversations" but has affirmed that if he is not in the PP "being the worst in the world and criticizing Citizens" like other turncoats, it is because he did not want to take that step.
First, for ideological reasons, and second, because he believes in his party. "I am a liberal and regenerationist and you cannot be a liberal in the conservative party," he explained,saying that this is not going to keep the seat "at all costs".
Consequently, he has lashed out at those who "have taken a balcony" or "have fallen off the horse" to become "more peperos than the seagull", despite the fact that in the past they have said "atrocities" about the PP.
In his opinion, what PP and Citizens have to do is collaborate and add "each one from their space" to govern, as happens in Andalusia or Castilla y León.
Arrimadas has regretted that the PP does not see it that way and has wondered how Casado can try to build an alternative "attacking his first partner." "What are you going to build if all you are doing is destroying?" He reproached the liberal leader. "It is much better to collaborate and agree," he continued, asking for a "rectification"to the PP in its strategy of fusion to the bravas, through the transfer of positions of the
orange party
.
Arrimadas has defended that he will continue to defend "without complexes" the liberal space in Spain and has assured that they not only differ with the PP in that "ideological" aspect, but also in the "regeneration" of democracy.
As, in his opinion, it has been shown by the distribution of positions between the PP and the PSOE in the institutional bodies.
In this regard, he has denounced that Casado has helped to "charge" the Court of Auditors the members who were precisely persecuting the leaders of the
procés
more effusively
, touching their pockets, "where it hurts the most." "The PP, in order to put their own, it does not matter to them if the independence movement ends up winning," he said. "I don't know what they would say if I do this infamy with Sánchez."
For the rest, Arrimadas has announced that this Monday he will send a letter to Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Casado to, since "they have realized that they have that majority in Congress", urge them to sit down and negotiate an education reform, of the energy system and electoral law. In short, "good reforms for Spain"instead of agreeing exclusively to share the "carguitos".
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