After months of storms, the weather in Ciudadanos seems to have calmed down. The leadership of the liberal formation considers the various sources of the fire that have conditioned the relaunch of the liberals to have been extinguished and prepares the timer for a campaign, that of the municipal and regional ones, crucial for the survival of the party.
They have not been easy months in Sales: barely 100 days ago, the cracks caused by the affirmative vote on the law of only yes is yes broke the trust between Inés Arrimadas and Edmundo Bal. The then number two of the party challenged, as a consequence, the leadership by launching an alternative candidacy that led to an internal war for organic control of the new Ciudadanos.
The battle eroded the final stretch of the refounding process and deepened the party’s internal divide. In fact, the candidacy of Patricia Guasp and Adrián Vázquez barely won with 53% of the votes. A week after he took office, in mid-January, Begoña Villacís opened a new front by threatening to go to the PP and proposing that Ciudadanos study going to the polls under other acronyms.
To this it was necessary to add the complicated situation that the parliamentary group is experiencing in Congress since the fight in the primaries divided the support among the nine deputies. In February, in fact, the fear grew that there would be resignations in the delegation in the short term.
However, the new leadership of Ciudadanos considers all these wounds healed just six weeks after taking the helm of the orange ship. A time in which the party has settled on the new bases, the set of electoral lists has been designed and the axes of the regional and municipal campaign have been outlined, whose passage through the polls, in 85 days, forces the Liberals to fight against surveys expressly.
The first step on that path, in fact, is imminent: Ciudadanos will celebrate next Sunday, March 12, a great event in which it will present its program lines, which it is already known will focus on families and the middle classes , “the great squeezed” of the current legislature.
The challenge of Citizens, in any case, will not be minuscule. The polls and the continuous onslaught of the PP will condition the campaign of the oranges, who this week were supported by the European liberal leaders and point to municipalism as the basis for survival.
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