Ciudadanos opens headquarters in Barcelona

From Calle Balmes, above Diagonal, to Ronda de Sant Pau, next to the Sant Antoni market and Ciutat Vella.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
25 September 2022 Sunday 19:43
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Ciudadanos opens headquarters in Barcelona

From Calle Balmes, above Diagonal, to Ronda de Sant Pau, next to the Sant Antoni market and Ciutat Vella. From the upper area of ​​Barcelona to the motley multicultural center of the metropolis. Ciudadanos opened its new headquarters this morning in the Catalan capital in an act in which its president in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, highlighted that in this new stage and in this new headquarters, located in a "popular and busy" neighborhood like the Sant Antoni, the party wants to open its doors to welcome its members and sympathizers and get closer to the rest of society, taking advantage of the new phase that Ciudadanos, in the process of refounding, is inaugurating.

The new headquarters will serve to hold press conferences again on Mondays after the meeting of the party's executive committee, something that had been stopped for some time due to the lack of adequate space to hold them. In addition, Carrizosa has highlighted that the new facilities will allow better use of information technologies to reach members and supporters directly, with podcasts and streaming events that will be published on social networks.

The change of venue has been delayed for more than a year, explained Carrizosa, due to the bureaucratic problems that the party has encountered in the Barcelona City Council to reform the premises, which measure 300 square meters and are located in a listed building in the Eixample in its limit with Ciutat Vella.

The new space, spacious and diaphanous and painted white, has a press room and a meeting room, as well as offices and a warehouse. The minimalist decoration is made up of a series of photographs in which the different party leaders appear, with the prominent presence of Inés Arrimadas and Carrizosa. The founder and former national leader, Albert Rivera, appears in a single image, which is placed in the meeting room, the most private room and least exposed to the gaze of visitors.

From now on, the party, which is closing most of its offices throughout Spain due to the economic crisis in which it is immersed as a result of the constant loss of public positions, will have in Catalonia the premises that are inaugurated today in Barcelona, ​​the Girona headquarters, which will remain, and another in Cornellà, whose future is up in the air. In the new facilities, sources from Citizens assure, all territorial groups will have a place when they need a space to meet or develop their activities.

"The state of the party in Catalonia is good. We have a solid militancy in which there are no variations. There are no longer famous exits as there could have been on other occasions," Carrizosa celebrated, praising "the good treasury" of Ciudadanos and its territorial representativeness, thanks to its councilors, despite the loss of thirty seats in Parliament.