Ignacio Aguado withdraws from Cs as a member claiming that he does not believe in the refoundation or in the Executive

He criticizes "the total absence of strategy, the wear of the brand and the lack of leadership" and believes that it is a "flight forward"

MADRID, 22 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, has announced this Monday that he has requested his withdrawal as a member of Ciudadanos, arguing that he does not believe in the refoundation process launched after the last electoral debacles and criticizing the Executive that has initiated.

Aguado, who after the elections in Andalusia --when Ciudadanos disappeared from the regional Parliament-- has already publicly called for the resignation of the entire national Executive and the convening of an Extraordinary Congress, has explained that the poor electoral results in Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid and Castilla y León are "sufficient reason" for the 'orange' leadership to resign immediately to agree on a "new direction and leadership" in a Congress.

Thus, he has regretted that neither of the two things happened and, instead, he has reproached the direction of Ciudadanos for "undertaking a flight forward", which "he does not share", "disguised as a refoundation" in which "he does not believe ".

In the opinion of the former vice president of the Community of Madrid, the "problem" is neither the ideas nor the founding principles of the party, but "the total absence of strategy, the wear and tear of the brand and the lack of a leadership capable of returning to excite the voters. "To remedy this, or at least try to do so, a refoundation is not needed, but rather a Congress," he stressed.

In the event that the refoundation "was necessary", Aguado believes that "it would have to be promoted by a new Executive and not by the same one that has been chaining one electoral failure after another for three years." "Unfortunately, it does not seem that my request or my arguments have had any kind of effect on those who must make these decisions," he added, noting that it is something that he "really feels".

Along these lines, he has assured that he is withdrawing as a member with "enormous sorrow" but also "with his head held high", while at the same time thanking colleagues and voters who trusted him so that Ciudadanos would appear in the Parliament of Madrid and then in the Government of the Autonomous Community. "My time at Ciudadanos ends today, but my love for Spain and my determination to bequeath to my son a country of free and equal citizens will live on forever," he stressed.