The Shakespearean drama that Ciudadanos stars before its agonizing refoundation, with Inés Arrimadas and Edmundo Bal fiercely disputing power, has experienced an intermission today in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo has put his finger on the bleeding orange sore. The popular leader has addressed the Liberals to tell them that his ideological project "has a place in the PP" and has suggested a "dignified" farewell to the political scene. Of course, opening the door to "talk to talented people and see if it is possible to coincide".
But this new siren song to attract figures like Begoña Villacís, the deputy mayor of Madrid, whose political future is still not entirely clear, did not sit well with the liberal ranks. "What is worthy of agreeing with the populism of Vox, surrendering to Santiago Abascal or keeping mayors accused of embezzlement like Olmedo's?" Francisco Igea, Numantino's attorney for Citizens in the Courts of Catalonia, answered Feijóo in a vehement video Castile and Leon.
"What is Feijóo's concept of dignity?", Igea has questioned, who has asked the popular leader what is worth giving up a "sensible" political project for Spain to "get into the trenches" of bipartisanship and the blocs and "agree with populism". In this way, Igea has defended the dignity of Ciudadanos, a party that "does not renounce independence, transparency and flee from patronage".
"What is worth joining a party with wordless people like Alfonso Fernández Mañueco?" asked the former vice president of Castilla y León, who has assured that he will not give up "a European and integrating political project" to "join with the populists of Vox", who "want to break the European dream" and "treat immigrants from other parts of the world as inferiors".
For this reason, the spokesman for Ciudadanos in the Castilla y León Parliament, where he is the only Liberal deputy who retained the seat in the early elections in February, has guaranteed that he will not surrender to the "politics of insults and bad manners" that, in his opinion, "tolerates" the PP through its pact with Vox in the community. "I have respect for him, but I ask him to have respect for us," concludes Igea, who maintains that Ciudadanos will continue to do "politics in a different way." "Even if we are fewer, leave us with our dignity," he concludes.
