Charges of Citizens sign a manifesto asking for the resignation of Arrimadas and an extraordinary congress

"Arrimadas does not step on the street" and lives "far from reality", assure the deputy mayors and provincial deputies who signed

MADRID, 29 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A group of public officials from Ciudadanos, including deputy mayors and provincial deputies, have launched a manifesto in which they demand the immediate resignation of the party president, Inés Arrimadas, and her entire team and the immediate convening of a congress to elect a new address.

According to these militants, in Ciudadanos "two souls coexist", those who have "worn their skin" to make Albert Rivera's project grow and "those who joined in the heat of the polls, coming to a set table, demanding positions and positions , becoming the closest nucleus to Inés Arrimadas".

In her opinion, Arrimadas has become "a president detached from reality, who uses Ciudadanos as a shield to hide her own crisis, who does not step on the street and who does not visit the territories or the public and organic positions that they are close to members and citizens every day".

In addition, they accuse the current leadership of Ciudadanos of "constant pacts" with the government of Pedro Sánchez and Podemos, "both in Congress and to promote motions of censure in the Region of Murcia and the Community of Madrid and in other municipalities", and he believes that Arrimadas and his team have abandoned the recipes for Spain that Albert Rivera proposed when the party was founded.

They also complain about "strategic errors" that have led to a succession of electoral defeats and the loss of autonomous militants and deputies, all without any "self-criticism", for which they understand that "the time has come to give voice to the members and that they decide, in an extraordinary general assembly, what refoundation they want".

"The problem of Cs is not the logo, nor the color, nor the affiliates, nor those who resigned from their executive responsibilities almost three years ago. The problem of Cs is that of the people who run it in recent years, who they put their personal and economic interests before, entrenching themselves in office, the general interest of the party and of Spain", they maintain.

For this reason, they ask for the "immediate resignation" of the Executive Committee of the party and the convening of an extraordinary assembly so that the affiliates can choose a new direction and a new political strategy. "There are no longer excuses for not doing it urgently -they affirm-. With the municipal and regional elections just around the corner, the party's leadership wants, once again, to gain time to put the affiliates against the sword and the wall in January. Too late."

Among the signatories are Sara Fernández and Mari Carmen Sánchez, deputy mayors of Zaragoza and Alicante (where they share government with the PP); Susana Fernández, spokesperson for the party in Asturias; Susana Gaspar, deputy in Aragon; Javier Gutiérrez, spokesperson for the Alicante Provincial Council; Ilde Ruiz, spokesperson for the Jaén Provincial Council; and the former Andalusian senator Mar Hormigo.