• Refundación Arrimadas will not resign and organizes a tour of Spain in the fall and an internal referendum after Christmas

  • Politics Arrimadas promotes the "refoundation" of Ciudadanos: change of electoral brand and a renewed program

The announcements of "refoundation" have not calmed the internal storm within Ciudadanos, where there are positions and militants who continue to demand resignations or the convening of an extraordinary congress to try to get out of the crisis.

The determination of these critical sectors will be settled on Monday when the Executive Committee

meets in the morning

and, in the afternoon, the

General Council

, the highest body between assemblies.

There Inés Arrimadas will give explanations, will sell the proposal for its refoundation and will listen to any criticism that may arise.

Then it will be seen if these also translate into a real pulse to separate her from the leadership of Cs.

The double appointment that Monday will also measure whether Arrimadas offers any gesture in return.

He already did it after the failed motion of censure in Murcia, when he introduced relevant changes within the national leadership.

That crisis was settled then with changes in the hard core with the entry of

Begoña Villacís

and

Juan Marín

and the loss of power of

Carlos Cuadrado

and

José María Espejo

.

In this waiting period, Arrimadas made a move this Wednesday and tried to seek the complicity of some depressed militants with a letter, to which EL MUNDO had access, in which he wanted to face the harsh defeat in Andalusia and the "errors » committed in their mandate.

In it he outlines an explanation of his future plan and promises to give them a voice in this process to choose above all that is important: electoral brand, program and, also, "teams and leadership."

In his presentation, Arrimadas points out that "the easy thing" would be to leave but that he considers that a resignation would be "a new mistake for the viability of the liberal project."

"The temptation of the easy is permanent, from past and present political offers [by the PP] that promise comfort and tranquility, to the return to the private sector and the family [he has two children and one of only three months]", he says the president of the

orange

party .

However, her "absolute conviction" is that this would be very detrimental to Ciudadanos.

"The solution I believe in is to set the course of the rudder, keeping it, no matter how strong the storm, until reaching a safe port," she says.

Faced with the calls for a reaction, Arrimadas affirms that there will be a "radical change" and that the situation "deserves a refoundation, a profound renewal."

Next, he guarantees that the bases will be the "true protagonists" of these changes, since he promises an "open, ambitious and participatory" process in which the militants will be the ones in charge of deciding.

"You and all your colleagues will be", he points out, "those in charge, once again, of endorsing the priority programmatic and political lines, the brand, the teams and the leadership."

He has not yet revealed exactly how it will be, but he does call on affiliates to sign up for this mission.

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