Arrimadas reinforces his role in the parliamentary group to the detriment of Bal

• Politics Ciudadanos keeps Bal in Congress but appoints Guillermo Díaz coordinator to control the parliamentary group

• Ciudadanos The parliamentary group, the first 'powder keg' for the new leadership

Same structure, different power.

Ciudadanos plans to establish from today a period of peace in its parliamentary group, with the resumption of the session after the completion of the

of the party.

A resurgence that has ended without major changes in the great powder keg of the party, but which allows Inés Arrimadas to regain control of a delegation that just two months ago put her leadership in check when seven of the nine deputies turned against her.

Little has changed since then in the situation within the parliamentary group, but outside of it everything is new in Ciudadanos.

The new liberal leadership, made up of Patricia Guasp and

, trusts Arrimadas to continue leading the team.

Also that Bal continues as deputy spokesman despite having lost the confidence of what was his right hand.

A structure without changes that the leadership plans to maintain "for the moment", according to Vázquez remarked yesterday, and that will have to be combined with the new position of coordinator of the group that falls from now on

, deputy "of the highest confidence" of Arrimadas in the current parliamentary group, count in the formation, and new "link" of the Executive with the team in the Lower House.

Now, as the former president of Ciudadanos, Arrimadas will have "more time" for the parliamentary agenda and, without organic obligations, she will become the spokesperson for the

group in Congress, according to sources from the liberal formation.

A scenario that will cut, in focus and action, the day to day of Edmundo Bal in Congress from the first minute.

It can be corroborated, in fact, now: it will be Arrimadas, and not Bal, who will attend the media in the usual press conferences on Tuesdays.

Her presence in committees and meetings within parliament will be more common and, ultimately, she or other members of the orange party apparatus will recover powers ceded to Bal in recent times.

It is the spokesperson who decides how much power his deputy will have, reflect voices from the new liberal apparatus in reference to the roles that Arrimadas, Bal and Díaz now play in the organization chart of the parliamentary group.

General candidate

However, this is the calm that could precede a new storm in the heart of the liberal formation.

Edmundo Bal, after losing the Ciudadanos primaries, aspires to be the future candidate for the

and assumes that both he and Arrimadas will appear in the internal process to designate the candidate, which will be held not before the May elections.

The new configuration in the Lower House and the counterweight that the appointment of Díaz supposes could limit the road map of the State lawyer in his parliamentary routine in the coming months, undoubtedly marked by the different electoral appointments.

Yesterday, in fact, the resumption of parliamentary activity gave away one of the stamps of the day: Inés Arrimadas and Edmundo Bal meeting in the

, both with a serious gesture despite the fact that the party highlights the "harmony" that reigns in Ciudadanos after the Assembly.

It is expected that today, in the extraordinary appearance of the President of the Government before the Plenary of the Lower House, Arrimadas will intervene.

However, from the formation it is remembered that in the big appointments in Congress "always" she has taken the floor as a leader, either organic, or parliamentary.

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