Juanma Lamet Madrid

Madrid

Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-15:09

  • PP and Cs already see an agreement in Catalonia as "almost impossible" after Carrizosa's order

  • Politics The Cs leadership disavows its leader in Catalonia: "He has to stop looking at his navel"

Black smoker. And definitive. There will be no integration of Ciudadanos into the PP. Neither for the

Catalan elections

nor for the

European ones

. This is how

EL MUNDO

can advance it

after confirming it from official sources familiar with the end of the negotiations. The attempt to "widen" the

popular

candidacy with the entry of Cs has been frustrated by the refusal of the senior

orange

officials of

Catalonia

to dilute it with other acronyms.

Furthermore, the general secretary of Ciudadanos,

Adrián Vázquez

, presents his resignation as head of the party as he did not have the support of his own people for his proposal. "Having not been able to complete the objective for which we began this search for an agreement after the mandate of the Executive of my party, and given that I cannot offer my commitment to a cause in which I do not believe nor do I want to be an obstacle for my colleagues , I have decided to step aside and put my position as general secretary at the disposal of the party, immediately, so that others can take the reins from now on," he says. "I do it from the sadness of disappointment but also from the tranquility of someone who has tried until the end," he laments.

Vázquez affirms that "there has been good will and harmony on the part of those who have sat at the table to try to reach an agreement, but the media noise and everything that, in the midst of the negotiation process, has been published in the media "have not helped bring the negotiation to a successful conclusion."

"We have tried everything, and I can say for my part, with the utmost serenity and good conscience, that I have also tried everything to guarantee a future for this political project in which, like so many others, I have dedicated many years of my life. "he adds in his statement.

This newspaper already anticipated last night that the agreement was "almost impossible" for that reason. And on this Friday morning, the negotiators, Adrián Vázquez (general secretary of Cs) and Cuca Gamarra (general secretary of the PP), have completed the end of the talks, both for the regional elections of

May 12

and for the community elections. of

June 9

.

The closing of the negotiations has occurred by mutual agreement and with as much harmony as regret. The Cs leadership did not have support from some of the fundamental actors to be able to close it, and the PP could not take the "risk" that later the Catalan officials of the liberal formation would leave the parliamentary group and move to the

Mixed Group

.

Carrizosa opposition

What happened for the negotiations to fail after being quite on track? One of the keys is the resounding message from

Carlos Carrizosa

in an interview in this newspaper yesterday. For the Cs spokesperson in the

Parliament

, the agreement that Génova and the

orange

leadership sought to articulate "would mean asking our party to simply disappear, and to be integrated into the acronym of another party that has never had the possibility, nor the desire, to effectively combat nationalism". And "it is outside the statutes to propose integration and dissolution into another party," he added.

The only approach of the PP was the total incorporation of Cs in its lists, and for it to materialize now. But they recognize that the "difficulties" that have ruined this idea have come from the tension of Cs in Catalonia. The

popular ones

point out that the agreement would have occurred if Carrizosa had not opposed it.

But given that refusal, Genoa could not take "risks," sources insist. "How do you assure us that the parliamentary group would not break up?" Gamarra had told Vázquez on Thursday, according to sources.

"I am and have been in favor of joining efforts and putting aside differences and divisions that pale next to the gravity of the moment," Vázquez insists. "I have maintained it in private and in public. Within my party and outside. As general secretary and as an affiliate of Ciudadanos. With honesty and pride," he laments.

The national leadership of Cs is going to hold a

National Committee

this Friday , according to the same sources, at 6:30 p.m. But now to consummate the failure of the negotiations, and channel it organically.