Patricia Guasp leaves the leadership of Cs and leads the party founded by Albert Ribera to primaries to resolve who will be its new leader. Guasp returns to private business and will be responsible for a consulting, auditing and tax advisory firm in the Balearic Islands. The leader of the formation has sent a letter to the militancy in which she details that she leaves office on September 1 due to labor incompatibility.
Guasp has been the leader of Cs since December 2023, when she replaced Inés Arrimadas after a convulsive primary process that confronted her with the formation's parliamentary spokesman, Edmundo Bal. Guasp won by a majority, with 53% of the votes, but the formation split with various denunciations by Bal.
Cs decided not to attend the last general elections on July 23 and Guasp announced that he had abstained. This decision caused a new clash between the two sectors of the formation, since Bal's wing considered it a mistake not to attend and accused the leadership of having the party kidnapped and bunkered.
In his letter, Guasp assures that it is a "difficult" decision and points out that Spain is experiencing "moments of democratic collapse." "I am firmly convinced that bipartisanship, supported by extremists and exclusive nationalists, will never be the solution," she says. She insists that Spain needs a transformative, liberal reformist and progressive project "that is defended from the political center, so that our democratic system stops continuing to divide and collectivize the Spanish people."
"They will never be able to buy our principles and they will never be sold," he adds. Guasp assures that, sooner rather than later, "from the liberal center we will once again be decisive for the future of our country." The Cs leader assures that she leaves with "coherence, honesty and the commitment that have always guided me in political life."
Guasp's imminent resignation aggravates the situation of a party that lost the little power it still had in the last regional elections. His decision not to stand in the July 23 elections has also left him without a presence in Congress. Cs will have to call new primaries to resolve this training crisis and elect a new leader.
The Cs leader has already informed the Secretary General of Ciudadanos, Adrián López, of her decision. She will leave the group's political spokesperson and will also stop being coordinator in the Balearic Islands. Guasp has been the leader of the formation on the islands and was a Cs candidate for the Balearic Parliament, but the party was left without the five deputies it had achieved in the 2019 elections. Before Guasp, the party was led by the writer Xavier Pericay , one of the founders of Cs, with an interim leadership between the two of Marc Pérez Ribas,
