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

  • Ciudadanos Arrimadas' candidacy doubles in endorsements for Edmundo Bal's list for the Ciudadanos primaries

The last great act of the battle for power in Ciudadanos, which will hold its primaries next Wednesday and Thursday and will meet in Madrid over the weekend at its announced refounding Congress.

This afternoon the candidates for the party's Political Spokesperson will measure their arguments in a debate: the deputy spokesperson in Congress, Edmundo Bal, leader of the opposition to Inés Arrimadas;

the coordinator of the Balearic Islands,

Patricia Guasp

, representative of the official list, and the young

Marcos Morales

, of a third candidacy of base affiliates.

And they appear in the midst of strong accusations as a result of Edmundo Bal's statements on Sunday in

EL MUNDO

.

"We have been enduring inadmissible attacks between colleagues for some time, but we are not going to put up with lies, insults or condescension, @BalEdmundo", Guasp launched yesterday from Twitter, which added an extract from the interview in this newspaper, where his rival accused: "What is going to answer Patricia Guasp about the issues that we have raised in a town hall, about what is the party's policy on a matter of Congress?

If she is not [in Congress], if in the end they are going to give her a written script, but she is not going to be able to react in an improvised way to any question, it is glaringly inappropriate ».

The orange

leader

in the Balearic Islands added: "I hope you discuss projects and with respect for everyone."

Not even that appreciation is a convention.

Well, Bal accuses Guasp's candidacy of being a cover for Inés Arrimadas and Begoña Villacís so, she says, "not to debate with me."

The deputy mayor of Madrid was alluded to, who along with a screenshot of the page -titled: «Arrimadas rules from behind and avoids debating ideas;

just like Villacís», he reproached him: «Dear Edmundo, if there is something I particularly like, it is debating ideas.

What I don't see is that a project is articulated simply around people, or rather, against people.

And for the first you have me whenever you want.

Not as opponents, but as partners.

Hours later, Villacís echoed Guasp's tweet, with the comment, also addressed to Bal: "I see that some do not know you.

Tomorrow [for today in the debate] is a good day for them to do it.

The

number two

in the Madrid City Council, the main asset of Ciudadanos today, also assumed, with a retweet, a comment by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, a PP deputy, who linked Bal's interview in EL MUNDO with a comment in support of the still leader of Ciudadanos: «To what so much hostility.

I would be delighted if @InesArrimadas was on my team or candidacy.

She made @CiudadanosCs the first party in Catalonia and her interventions in Congress are politically and morally exemplary ».

In this climate, today Guasp and Bal meet -yesterday he was in Valladolid with Francisco Igea, with whom he shares the rejection of the current leadership and also a supporter of turning towards progressive liberalism-.

On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be the turn of the 7,642 militants, with the official list doubling its opponents in endorsements (1,367 compared to 679).

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