The national executive of Citizens managed to avoid an internal disaster that could have precipitated the total rupture. For five hours the main leaders discussed the new statutory document that will guide the formation and that must be endorsed at the general assembly in January. The organizational model was the main stumbling block. And in the end it was possible to draw up a consensus formula that bets on the bicephaly: there will be a general secretary who will have maximum organic responsibility and a national spokesperson with responsibilities for political action. It will be a ‘ticket’ that will be presented in the same candidacy and the national assembly in January must endorse it.
In addition, the party agrees that the general secretariat of the party is incompatible with a candidacy for the primaries (to be held later) for the general elections for the duration of its mandate. Thus, the organic part is totally differentiated from the political. This consensus, at a minimum, Postpone the real underground war: the new ones leaderships of the party and that will be addressed for the month of January.
There are other readings: Inés Arrimadas gain oxygen and time in front of a good number of leaders who insisted that this executive could be his end at the head of the formation. Throughout the week the internal tension grew thinking about the conclave this Friday.
And hours before it began, different members of the party assured that the discussion of the organizational model was the prelude to the real debate: the leadership of Arrimadas. In the hard core of the president they doubted that the blood would reach the river and lowered that questioning, but some of the attendees did not hide that “they were going to fight & rdquor; and that it was time to put the cards face up. In the end there were few interventions so ignited.
The former vice president of Castilla y León and current deputy in the Cortes, Francisco Igea, did open the leadership melon, insisting that this was what the affiliates expected and that a solution had to be given, regardless of what happened with the presentation. . Other historical leaders like the Catalan Jordi Canas They came out in defense of Arrimadas. The turn of Edmundo Bal, spokesman in Congress, was awaited with special interest due to his dissatisfaction with the model that bicephaly defended and given the doubts that it was an operation that only served to save the leader and leave her the door open as a candidate for the generals while giving up the organic part. Other deputies from the parliamentary group shared that mistrust. And the main discomfort was that this model was not the one agreed upon during the re-founding work and had been done with its back to the party.
Bal defended the model contrary to bicephaly, “in good tone & rdquor; according to some of those present, and avoided criticizing Arrimadas. After the media had made public their recent confrontation over the ‘only yes is yes’ law (the orange party supported it and after learning about the lowering of sentences for some aggressors due to a legal hole in the rule, the leader asked explanations to Bal as legal officer in a meeting that did not end well at all) both they staged a truce with a hug in front of the executive As this newspaper has learned, the orange president assured that the The differences between the two were fundamentally “ideological & rdquor; and sought that gesture to extinguish the controversy.
However, many attendees believe that the image was that of a truce. A set unit but necessary to move on. The mistrust between the two is a fact and the internal rupture is also, although it remains to be seen if this consensus in the statutory report serves to redirect some relationships.
The idea that the party seeks to convey is that they will arrive together until the general assembly in January. The next few weeks will be decisive because the next step is to talk about names. It was precisely Arrimadas who used her intervention to insist that the executive had to decide the “best model & rdquor; for the party without thinking of specific names, reproaching that some leaders They defended a formula based on who was going to occupy the positions. That, they say in their hard core, “was a turning point & rdquor; in the meeting for some leaders who doubted and to try to find an agreement.
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I could have been a breakout executive but stayed in a conclave of tension. The risks, recognize sectors of the two souls that faced each other, remain. And that is why the majority speaks of a truce without ruling out that the pressure will return with force when the primary process opens.
In addition, the agreed document includes that political decisions will be made in the national committee, made up of the permanent committee plus its ex officio members, of which it is also agreed to increase the number of people with respect to the initial statutory proposal. Territorial participation and that of the autonomous committees in decision-making in the territory will also be increased.