In the middle of the week in which the PP plans to finally announce who will lead its European candidacy in the June 9 elections, this Wednesday it was revealed that Adrián Vázquez, as expected, will join the list and continue as an MEP, changing Yes, the orange of Ciudadanos for the blue of the popular ones. Unknown mystery.
Vázquez himself, who resigned as general secretary of Ciudadanos last March after seeing his intention to integrate the party into the PP frustrated, which was opposed from Catalonia by Carlos Carrizosa and fellow MEP Jordi Cañas, who wanted to keep the acronym, which has confirmed in a message from X, in which he thanks the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for the trust placed in him and the recognition for the work carried out in the European Parliament.
"At a critical moment in our democracy, we must be on the side of defending the rule of law and the founding values of the Union," says the MEP, who is president of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and has a long career in Brussels, where he worked as an advisor before becoming a parliamentarian.
"The PP is the only political alternative capable of rebuilding our civic and constitutional coexistence, and I proudly announce that I will attend the European Parliament on its lists to contribute to that objective," Adrián Vázquez, who will be accompanied by two others, wrote on his social networks. Ciudadanos MEPs, Susana Solís, who was a member of the Madrid Assembly (2015-19) and the Catalan Eva Poptcheva.
The departure of Adrián Vázquez, who led the attempt to re-found Ciudadanos after the convulsive congress of January 2023, when Inés Arrimadas handed over the baton and the party was divided between its followers and its detractors, leaves the liberal formation in a situation of extreme weakness. Also in Catalonia, where it obtained 36 deputies in 2017 and this May 12, seven years later, it may be left without representation in the Parliament, as the polls predict.
Shortly after the step taken by Vázquez became known, Feijóo himself announced in democratic", has been praised by the popular leader, who has called for mobilization in the streets and at the polls "for equality and freedoms".
Thus, whatever happens in the Catalan elections on May 12 and having given up running in the general elections on July 23 last year, the European elections on June 9 will decide the fate of Ciudadanos, which will be marked by the confrontation between Vázquez - followed by Solís and Poptcheva - and Cañas, until now teammates in Brussels.
