Carrizosa (Cs) responds to Bal that there is no reason to "sacrifice" Arrimadas in the refoundation

Defends agreeing with PP and PSOE with "conditions" and rules out governing with Vox and Podemos

   BARCELONA, 6 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of Cs in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, has replied to the deputy spokesman for Cs in the Congress of Deputies, Edmundo Bal, that the refounding of the party does not have to go through "sacrificing" the current president of the formation, Inés tucked up

"A leader who has won regional elections in Spain, and who is a highly valued leader among our voters, does not have to be sacrificed on the altar of a supposed renewal," he defended in an interview with Europa Press, after that Bal affirmed that, if Arrimadas continues to have a visible role within Cs, the refoundation will not have credibility.

Bal is presented to the Cs primaries on a rival list led by the coordinator of Cs in the Balearic Islands, Patricia Guasp, and the MEP Adrián Vázquez, candidates for political spokesperson and secretary general, and in which Carrizosa and Arrimadas concur -- who closes the candidacy--.

Carrizosa has criticized that Bal defends that his candidacy is for renewal when he himself, as a member of the current executive, has been "co-responsible for all the management" of the party until now, and has assured that the renewal is Vázquez and Guasp.

Thus, he has highlighted that the list headed by Vázquez and Guasp proposes for the permanent executive people from Cs who have never been on it and that that is what renewing a party consists of, while Arrimadas has taken a "step aside" in his responsibilities of management and would only be in the national executive as a member.

A week after the General Assembly that will culminate the refoundation of Cs, Carrizosa has maintained that Bal "is wrong both in the intensity of the attacks on Arrimadas and in the moment of raising them": in his opinion, it is not now when it is necessary to debate if she continues as a Cs candidate, but after the municipal and regional ones, in other primaries.

Asked if he believes that, at that time, Arrimadas should continue to be the Cs candidate for the presidency of the Government, he replied: "I bet that the militants decide that in a primary, and that for the moment she continues, as we follow all the organic positions, in charge of our respective responsibilities".

Carrizosa has trusted that the re-foundation will serve to better identify the "political features" of Cs and clarify the formation's policy of pacts, which he maintains that it must go through opening up to government agreements with PSOE and PP as long as they accept the conditions programmatic that Cs raises.

Among these conditions, he has placed the fight against corruption, individual rights and liberties, respect for the LGTBI collective, support for SMEs and the self-employed and public health, and has warned: "Cs will never be part of a government in whoever Vox is in. Nor will we be part of a government with Podemos and we will not be part of pro-independence governments," he warned.

Regarding the name of the party, he has opted to maintain the 'Ciudadanos' brand "by doing the retouching or rebranding of the brand that has to be done", and he explained that from Catalonia they have presented an amendment that has gone to the presentation to keep it.

Asked if he believes that the renewal of Cs can turn the polls around, he has trusted that it can "help the brand and the electoral offer" after the successive bad electoral results, in his words, which led them to open a process of reflection in the framework of the refoundation.

As he explained, the party has identified two errors that harmed them electorally: the first, not having "staged enough" the will of Cs to agree on a coalition government with the PSOE in 2019 after the April generals -- which were repeated in December, and after those that went from 57 to 10 deputies--; and the second, not having imposed clearer conditions when they formed coalition governments with the PP in several autonomies.

"We must stop being subordinates of any party, of course of the PP and also of the PSOE. It is very necessary that a reformist center political force impose a series of conditions in its pacts with other parties," he stressed.

Regarding pacts with the PSOE, he has warned that if "there were a different leader to Pedro Sánchez in the next elections, without a doubt the pacts to form a government would be facilitated", asked if it would promote an approach that socialist barons critical of the strategy de Ferraz took a step forward.

"The problem that the PSOE is having, and that some of its leaders identify, is Mr. Pedro Sánchez and his lack of red lines to agree with those who want to destroy coexistence in Spain or torpedo our Constitution," he added.

Asked if they have offered him to go to the PP, after the signings of several former Cs charges, he has assured that no and has warned: "The name of Carlos Carrizosa will never be linked to another party that is not Cs. The day I do not continue In politics, I will leave and I will not be nor will I vote for any other party that is not Cs".