Deputy Mayor of Alicante, Mari Carmen Sanchez; Provincial deputy for Valencia Juan Córdoba and provincial deputy for Alicante Javier Gutierrez These are three public officials linked to Ciudadanos who signed a manifesto promoted by party critics to demand the “immediate” resignation of the formation’s executive committee led by Inés Arrimadas. Critics who have risen against the party leadership grouped in the “Somos Cs” movement are demanding that an extraordinary assembly be called so that members can choose a new direction and a new political strategy, because, Arrimadas said, he “does not step on the street” and lives “far from the truth”.
Sánchez and Gutiérrez’s support for the manifesto is another example of how large the organization is during its lowest hours. Alicante City Council and Provincial Council are the two most important places where C’s manage in both institutions in coalition with the PP throughout the Valencian Community. In the case of the Alicante municipal group, in addition to the vice mayor, councilors María Conejero and Antonio Joaquín Manresa also signed the manifesto. In total, three of the five councilors that make up the group on the City Council.
There is such a war in the party that in June the leadership dismissed the provincial coordinator, César Martínez and Chechu Herrerro, state secretaries of Institutional Action and Organization, as well as Javier Gutiérrez, respectively. A short time later it was decided to suspend Precautionary militancy to Gutiérrez, responsible for Infrastructure and Aid to Municipalities, and councilor for Urban Planning in Xixona. The dissolution of the party also led to the resignation of the main Community-wide positions of the youth branch of the party, including Natalia Sanchiz of Alicante.
We are the Cs, a movement born of “party loyalty”, supported by Citizen members, public officials and organics, to convene an extraordinary General Assembly for all members to freely decide on a new strategy and a new address. . Sergio García, current deputy spokesperson of the parliamentary group in Asturias; Javier Gutiérrez, deputy state of Alicante; Ilde Ruiz, Jaén’s deputy state; Mar Hormigo, former Andalusian senator and former organizational secretary; Mari Carmen Sánchez, deputy mayor of Alicante; Susana Fernández, spokesperson for the Asturias Parliamentary Group; or Juan Córdoba, deputy state of Valencia, among others.
The creation of the Somos C’s is accompanied by a manifesto highlighting the history, principles, and values that characterize the C’s. It also examines the last years of the party led by Inés Arrimadas and his team and the reasons that forced them to come forward. According to its organizers, more positions and affiliates will be added from all over Spain, and they are encouraging anyone “who wants to step up to save the project, participate and sign the manifesto”.
Evident
The manifesto describes how Cs were born out of society in 2006 to defend the constitutional values they are most at risk of: Catalonia. From then on, with Albert Rivera at the helm, the party grew and consolidated in Catalonia while many voices from the rest of Spain called for a “leap” into national politics.
In 2013, through the Movimiento Ciudadano platform, Ciudadanos made the “leap” into national politics. “An initiative that excites thousands of Spaniards with its desire to change us, to give citizens a voice; a civic movement that advocates moving from anger to illusion and action.”
“Spain was warned that it was facing an economic, institutional and regional crisis – text is added – and in the face of it a commitment was made to strengthen civic values such as freedom, equality, unity or solidarity and to launch various necessary initiatives. We were many who saw a glimmer of hope and he From the moment we joined Ciudadanos”.
Almost 9 years after this call for hope and change, the problems facing Spain remain “the same or worse”. But the solutions that had to be implemented and encouraged by Ciudadanos were “abandoned by our current leadership.”
“And they – they argued – ever since Inés Arrimadas and his team took responsibility for the party, leaving the defense of the principles and values that characterize Ciudadanos. Persistent agreements with Pedro Sánchez and the Podemos Government, both in Congress, in the Region of Murcia and in the Community of Madrid and other municipalities to pass motions of no confidence. It is a clear example of the drift in which the current leadership is leading the party, as well as promoting it. It was not the Ciudadanos that got us excited.
For the Somos Cs, “stray forward strategic mistakes and lack of self-criticism” were placed in the “whole” leadership of the party. Neither the continued loss of electoral support, nor the continued flight of members and positions resulted in “minimal change” on the leadership side.
In this regard, they provided data indicating that the orange formation has risen from 166 district deputies to 43, from about 30,000 to 6,000, and the polls are also not optimistic, indicating that Ciudadanos will “disappear” by falling below 2 percent. vote.
two souls
Two spirits live together in Ciudadanos today, figuratively expressed. Those who joined the group were impressed by their ideas and values and “sacrificially worked their butts to build and grow this project”, led by Albert Rivera.
On the other hand, there are those who take to the heat of the polls, those who “come to a certain table and demand positions and positions, becoming the closest core to Inés Arrimadas, making him a president disconnected from reality, using the Citizens as a shield to hide his own crisis, who do not step on the street and visit lands or public and organic positions that are close to affiliates and citizens every day,” the document criticizes.
Therefore, they felt it was time to give the subsidiaries a voice and decide what kind of reorganization they wanted at an extraordinary general meeting.
CS’s problem is not the logo, the color, the affiliates, or the people who left management positions nearly three years ago. “The problem with the C’s is that of the people who have run it in recent years, who put their personal and economic interests before the general interest of the party and Spain, who put themselves in office.”
The signatories of this manifesto demand the “immediate resignation” of the Executive Committee and the convening of an extraordinary assembly so that the members can choose a new direction and a new political strategy. No more excuses for not doing this urgently, they observed.
As municipal and district elections approached, the party leadership “once again wants to buy time to get the subsidiaries in a difficult and difficult situation in January”, they complained, predicting it was “too late” for that. .
“There’s more—they defended it—we who love Ciudadanos. There are those among us who advocate the values and principles that got us off the couch and contributed our grain of sand to build this project. We are the ones who believe in this project more than we advocate freedom, equality, unity and solidarity. Ciudadanos among us “There are those who believe that it is necessary and is necessary now,” he said.
Source: Informacion
