Citizens evidence their schism in Andalusia with part of the militancy asking for primaries

Everything seems to indicate that Ciudadanos en Andalucía will designate the candidacy for the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía after holding a primary process. And that, in all probability, there will be more than one application in that internal process. For now, of course, he already has a guaranteed candidate: Juan Marín, party spokesman and vice president of the Autonomous Administration.

It was at the end of this month of July when Marín made a change in the parliamentary group Andalusian who supposed to assume de facto all the control of its deputies to incorporate people “of their total confidence.” The Malaga MP Teresa Pardo replaced Sergio romero as spokesperson, who had asked to leave the post.

Romero, deputy related to the Minister of Equality, Rocio Ruiz, was appointed a member of the Bureau of Parliament, a position that had been held by the parliamentarian Julio Diaz, who became deputy spokesperson. This parliamentary movement was joined by the departure of Fran Carrillo as general secretary of the orange formation, who was relieved by Enrique Moreno, deputy for Jaén.

With these changes, the regional leader of Cs in Andalusia and member of the permanent committee of the orange formation consolidated a leadership who had already nominated in January of this year, when he argued that his intention was to be the orange candidate for the Andalusian elections.

Now, and with the prospect of regional elections that, although not anticipated, will be safe next year, Juan Marín has run again “when the internal process”. That is, the primaries. But all this coincides with the appearance of anonymous voices on social networks demanding an internal election with clear rivals to choose a candidate.

“I have always shown my face”, declared Marín, without hiding “behind any anonymous account”, in reference to the two open profiles on the social network Twitter that have been defending the primary process and nominating Rocío Ruiz and Fran Carrillo as candidates.

But this week there are already three leaders of the liberal formation who, publicly, have spoken on the matter. The first has been the Minister of Education and Sports, Javier Imbroda, defending that Cs in Andalusia should “close ranks” around a single candidacy, that of Juan Marín.

Imbroda stressed that he is not in favor of its celebration because “it is not smart to raise them at this time.” The situation of Ciudadanos in Andalusia, according to the latest polls, predicts that the liberal formation you will lose up to 14 seats parliamentarians.

In addition to Imbroda, the counselor -and possible rival of Marín in a possible internal process- has also spoken. Rocio Ruiz. She defended the primaries because they collect it statutes of the party, but clarified that “this is not the time to talk about them ”because“ there is more than a year left ”for the regional elections.

“I understand that everyone will have to respect the Statutes, and I also understand that the affiliates and militants of Ciudadanos want to be heard,” he added. However, it has not clarified his intentions to present or not to the internal process.

The last leader to speak on the matter has been the spokesman for Ciudadanos (Cs) in the Congress of Deputies, Edmundo bal. This past Thursday he was blunt about it: the primaries to choose a candidate “they have to be celebrated yes or yes, because they come in the Statutes “of the formation. The one who was an orange candidate in the Madrid elections last May was chosen as a candidate in an internal process in March in which he reached 89.43% of the votes of the militancy.

“I do not know what they do in other parties, but of course in my political party what the statutes provide is strictly adhered to,” he said. Bal added that “it cannot be otherwise, because we are people respectful of the rule of law and compliance with the law”, and “the statutes of a party are the law of that party “.

With these wickers, the orange formation in Andalusia has called a party act this Sunday in Seville, with the presence of the national president, Ines Arrimadas. Juan Marín and Javier Imbroda are expected to participate in the event, but not Rocío Ruiz.

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