In the middle of the re-establishment process, with the preliminary voting underway, Ruth Merino, trustee of Ciudadanos en las Corts, has one foot outside the party. A parliamentary spokesperson held a press conference at 11 am this Thursday morning in his office in the autonomous assembly to announce his departure from the formation.
Sources familiar with the party’s internal situation point out that it is most likely that Merino will leave Ciudadanos, where he will not step down from his trusteeship a year and a half ago when Toni Cantó left for PP in Madrid. but he would also relinquish his mandate
At the press conference he held after the board of trustees last Tuesday, Merinos has already shown his distance from the situation oranges are experiencing. In this sense, he acknowledged that the re-establishment process, the primaries and their results would not “serve” to “have a future” for Ciudadanos, in which he participated, and that this deterred him from running for the primaries.
Having already voiced these differences with the party’s end-of-year march, Merino said, “It logically discourages me,” and also admitted that none of the candidates urged him to include him. Lists despite running the main parliamentary group of C’s in Spain.
A press release late this Wednesday has further raised doubts about how Merinos’ departure, who did not join any of the lists that chose the party leadership, could lead to his definitive departure from the party. His media attention will coincide with the second day of voting for the formation’s internal primaries.
If Merino’s farewell is approved, the orange party would see four parliamentary spokespersons march in nearly two legislatures since the Liberals entered the Valencian parliament in 2015, after Carolina Punset, Alexis Marí and Toni Cantó left, and after Mari Carmen left. Sánchez was there until he was nominated in the Alicante City Council.