Edmundo Bal, current deputy spokesman for Ciudadanos in Congress, will leave politics at the end of this legislature and will rejoin the State Bar at the beginning of 2024. In this way, Bal rules out running for the primary process that will be determined in the coming months who will be the next candidate of the liberals to the general elections.
Bal was the candidate for the 2021 Madrid elections and led the alternative candidacy to succeed Inés Arrimadas at the command of Ciudadanos. In the first ones he was not represented and in the second he was defeated by the list of Patricia Guasp and Adrián Vázquez, despite having the support of the majority of the parliamentary group in Congress, which supported the State lawyer after breaking with Arrimadas to root of the affirmative vote of the party to the defective law of the only yes is yes.
The news of Bal’s resignation, announced by The Objective and confirmed by EL MUNDO through the deputy spokesperson, definitively closes the door to a new organic battle to lead the candidacy for the general elections next December, in which Ciudadanos will its survival is at stake, since the average polls predict that the oranges will not achieve representation in Congress.
In recent days, the debate about who will be the next candidate for the general elections in December had come back to life in Ciudadanos. The transfer of Inés Arrimadas from her home to Jerez de la Frontera raised rumors that the parliamentary spokesperson and former party leader was stepping aside. However, she herself confirmed that the movement responds to personal reasons and that this does not imply any decision regarding the future, something that she must still assess and weigh.
Bal (Huelva, 1967) arrived at Ciudadanos in March 2019 at the hands of Albert Rivera as one of the star signings of independents by the party ahead of the general elections in April of that year. His outstanding career as a State lawyer, his role during the Procés trial and his sudden dismissal earned him a prominent profile in the formation, especially after the resignation of Albert Rivera months later, after the thumping of the Liberals in electoral repetition.
It was then that Bal gained weight within the party, until he became the right hand of Inés Arrimadas. Last autumn, the relationship between the two broke and cracked the parliamentary group, made up of nine deputies, who decided to support the majority of Bal’s proposal to take control of the party and succeed Arrimadas, who delegated his organic functions to Guasp and Vázquez. and since the beginning of the year he has been exclusively in charge of the spokesperson in Congress.
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