• Primaries Last round Guasp-Bal for the control of Citizens between "lies and insults"

  • Edmundo Bal "It cannot be that people turn on television and continue to see Arrimadas speaking as a spokesperson for Ciudadanos"

  • Adrián Vázquez "Citizens need an urgent change of faces and ways of doing things"

A muddy process until the last moment.

This Tuesday, Ciudadanos will put an end to a primary campaign marked by the crossfire between calls to revive the party.

The

Refoundation

, which will culminate this weekend with the

General Assembly

, has remained in the background and overshadowed after members of both lists, despite expressing the need to row in the same direction, have directly discredited their own fellow party members in recent days.

A war that this Monday experienced its final battle in the second and final debate between candidates for the Ciudadanos steering committee:

Edmundo Bal

,

Patricia Guasp

and

Marcos Morales

, representatives of the three lists, returned to face their models amid accusations of absence "of word", "lack of respect", turns for personal interests, "leaks to the press", "falsehoods" and a lack of transparency in an "opaque" relaunch process.

The tension has grown intensely in recent months, but it all broke out at the end of November.

Then, the disagreements between Inés Arrimadas and Edmundo Bal became public.

The control of the parliamentary group, the roadmap after the refoundation and the role of the party's still president detonated the relationship and broke "all trust" between the two main liberal leaders at the gates of the most important congress that the orange mark goes through .

All this came up again in the first debate between candidates, held last week in Barcelona, ​​and planned again this Monday on the Madrid headquarters of Sales to the point of structuring the dialectical confrontation.

At the same time that the various candidates demanded to reconnect with the orange militant to return the illusion, possible turncoats were thrown left and right if Ciudadanos was definitively shipwrecked in a few months.

"I will never be in the PP; it will be necessary to see if you will be in the PSOE or in another party", launched Guasp to Bal.

"In the party of the uncle who fired me?" replied the state lawyer, who reflected that "there is nothing more Sanchista than someone who wants to compete for the right."

“It is important not to disrespect each other.

On January 16 we all have to sit together.

That is why I am not entering into your provocations," the party's national spokesperson explained to the leader of Ciudadanos in the Balearic Islands, who accused Bal of "having shown not to have a word" after assuring this summer that he was the "faithful squire" of Inés tucked up

Everything, in an atmosphere of high dialectical tension up and down the stage in which the speakers accused each other on several occasions of being disrespectful or not being sincere in their statements.

At the beginning of the debate, Marcos Morales asked for "pardon" on behalf of the three candidacies for "the image and the show" given throughout the process.

"Perhaps we have not transmitted the best," admitted the young 19-year-old candidate, who repeatedly denounced the lack of information on the results of the refounding phase on behalf of the party's bases.

With less than a week to go before the Extraordinary General Assembly is held, the party models proposed by the different lists are vastly different.

During the debate, as has happened throughout the campaign, the candidates stressed their absolute respect for the outgoing paper on the refoundation process that will be taken to the congress this weekend, but the three lists are currently sailing in different directions as far as which refers to the ideological and political orientation of pacts from now on.

"Waging the cultural battle is to snatch the concept of progressivism from the left," insisted Bal, who said he was not willing to agree with the PSOE, but did want to "widen" Ciudadanos to try to win the votes from the disenchanted Socialists with the sanchismo

«The center must not be confused with being equidistant and in the middle, between the Popular Party and the PSOE.

We must confront an exhausted socialism and a conservative right that considers it pathological not to face reforms, "Guasp replied.

Marcos Morales, who defines himself as a "liberal without complexes", spoke along a similar line: "We have not come to moderate anyone."

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