The electoral advancement in Castilla y León caught all the opposition parties and Ciudadanos off guard, who even being within the coalition government, could not imagine the announcement of Alfonso Fernández Manueco. Despite the state of shock in the orange ranks, Inés Arrimadas telematically brought the entire structure together of training – including attorneys, dismissed counselors, organic positions, and even Francisco Igea from the hospital to which he has immediately joined – to address the scenario of February 13.
There is a general conviction within the training that Igea must repeat as a candidate for the embody “The betrayal & rdquor; of the PP calling elections “without justification & rdquor; to “end politically & rdquor; with the orange party, according to leaders of the dome. It is the strategy on which Ciudadanos will base the electoral campaign as soon as it closes the list of units in which it is working. The leadership is still waiting to finalize the talks with the organic apparatus in Castilla y León, but the bet is to avoid the primaries Y speed up your appointment.
Training cannot be allowed, national sources acknowledge, an internal battle, even less with the deadlines set in an electoral call: in just a few weeks the candidates have to be registered. Not only that: the management considers that “There is no time to lose & rdquor; and the leaders closest to Arrimadas are in favor of launching the candidacy as soon as possible, even if they arrive on time, before Christmas Day.
The party statutes contemplate of exceptional way the appointment of a candidate by the management in very extraordinary circumstances. The only time that the party made use of this dispensation was in the summer of 2020 when they removed Lorena Roldán from the candidacy for the Generalitat of Catalonia (months after having won a primary) to place Carlos Carrizosa. Although the agreement supposedly came out with his approval, the affected party ended up going to the PP amid criticism.
In any case, all the actors involved (in the management and in the environment of Igea) recognize that the “emergency route & rdquor; could have the go-ahead of all because at this moment “yes, all the possible exceptional circumstances exist & rdquor ;, including the electoral advance that has a date set on the calendar. In addition, in the popular leadership they remember that Igea won the 2019 primaries that ended up taking him to the vice presidency.
Internal elections that are also part of the history of the party after it faced the former president of the Cortes of Castilla y León, Silvia Clemente, which went from the PP to Ciudadanos overnight, with the backing of the dome that then led Albert Rivera and José Manuel Villegas. Igea left the Congress of Deputies to attend the Castilian-Leon primaries and won a controversial process, with irregularities that benefited his rival.
She later faced Arrimadas herself in the national primaries after Rivera’s resignation. His objective, as he always defended, was not to lead the party, but to win support in his proposal for an open and transparent party.
Almost two years after that, Arrimadas and Igea they need each other for a common goal: to fight the PP. The national leadership is clear that Igea is the one who must lead the February electoral battle, which will inaugurate the cycle throughout Spain, and they trust that there can be an agreement throughout the community that includes Gemma Villarroel, leader of Citizens in this region and bet of the national direction. The elections they even altered the balance of supports, to the point that now it is the management who trusts Igea.
Crossing of messages and accusations
The rupture between PP and Ciudadanos experienced a new high point yesterday when the former vice president publicly shared messages with the Minister of Finance (of the PP) in which he commented on the progress of the conversations he had held with Por Ávila, the party on which the budget agreement depended . The counselor even thanked Igea for her work.
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The popular ones are against that these messages “prove something & rdquor ;, reaffirming that Ciudadanos and that party they were holding meetings and secret conversations, “Behind & rdquor; de Mañueco, which is why the president decided to advance the elections. “It was unsustainable and those conversations are unacceptable & rdquor ;, they keep in their closest circle.
The mayor of the walled city, Jesus Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (For Ávila), he reinforced Igea’s thesis by publishing his record of calls from the weekend in which it is seen that he had a conversation with the same counselor, responsible for Budgets, stating that the objective was to continue talking to reach a pact . Also deny any secret words with oranges.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com