The leader of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, announced this Monday that "her personal commitment" to the party will last six months, until its refoundation, and has said that she wants it to be "deep and brave" to reconnect this liberal party with the Spanish.
In an intervention before the National Executive Committee, Arrimadas has assured that "there are no excuses" for his "painful electoral nights", especially that of Andalusia, and has added that in difficult moments, very difficult decisions have to be made.
Arrimadas has indicated that both she and her team had two options: resign en bloc to make way for a congress or promote a process of profound renewal that reconnects with the Spanish. "Despite the fact that the first is simpler, easier and more comfortable, it is not clear that it is the most correct", she indicated, before adding that finally the Executive Committee has asked both her and her team to continue leading .
The president of Ciudadanos has recognized that they had planned to refound the party a long time ago and that it was not as a result of the last elections, but she has admitted that the result of Andalusia has accelerated the deadlines: from one year to six months.
The objective, he continued, is for the militancy to redefine the key ideas of the party, the program and the solutions that Ciudadanos wants to give to the problems of Spain, with the purpose of reaching the next elections "as best as possible".
He has advanced that the new team will have "new blood" and committed people, such as the mayor of Ciudad Real, Eva Macías; the councilman of Santa Coloma, Dimas Gragera; MEP Adrián Vázquez; the coordinator in the Balearic Islands, Patricia Guasp, the deputy María Muñoz and the councilor of the Madrid City Council Mariano Fuentes. The deputy Guillermo Díaz will be the spokesperson for this team that will lead the refoundation, and the deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, will be the coordinator.
He has anticipated that five working groups will be formed that will be open to the different renewal proposals presented by the militancy in order to have an initial conclusion in mid-September. He has also announced that he will have an external advisory body, made up of people not attached to the party, professionals and intellectuals, who want to collaborate to achieve that liberal space.
"My personal commitment and that of my team lasts until the refoundation that we have the obligation to pilot is made and then the militants will have to decide everything. We are not going to be a problem neither by leaving, which is the easy thing, nor by staying, if there is people who are better than us", he underlined.
Arrimadas, who has assured that he assumes the "mistakes" of this stage, has been convinced that despite the results, they are a good game and essential for Spain and that the Spaniards will be able to forgive them if they are able to return to the essence with which was founded citizens.
