The internal crisis of Ciudadanos continues to decimate the party. The confrontation between the management and Francisco Igea has reached its highest level today with the announcement by the formation's disciplinary regime commission that it has processed his expulsion and that, consequently, it requires him to hand over his minutes as attorney in the Cortes of Castilla y León.
Both Igea and Edmundo Bal had been threatened with expulsion by the executive for their criticism of the decision not to go to the polls in the general elections, but the rebellion of the only regional deputy that Ciudadanos retained, with the exception of the six it has In Parliament, by promoting an alternative platform, Nexo, presented last Saturday in Madrid, it has precipitated events.
In a statement, Ciudadanos has explained the reasons for the sudden expulsion of Igea, which could ultimately present allegations before the guarantees committee, an independent body that supervises the files of affiliates, although, in an appearance before the media in Valladolid, The former vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León has already announced that he does not plan to do so.
"The proposed resolution proposes my definitive expulsion from Ciudadanos. I can only regret the final drift of the party, in which I always had the opportunity to defend my positions even when they did not coincide with those of the leadership," Igea told the departure from the meeting of the board of spokespersons. The attorney sees the decision as "incomprehensible" and denies having "vexed" or "insulted" the members of the executive.
Specifically, the disciplinary commission argues that its decision has come "after evaluating the serious accusations and attacks on the party and members of its leadership that occurred for weeks after the democratic decision of the national Citizens committee not to participate in the general elections." of last July 23".
"We want to remember that these attacks have nothing to do with the healthy and respectable political criticism that within a party can and should be carried out in the face of a disparity of opinions," continues the statement from Ciudadanos, which currently heads alone the secretary general, MEP Adrián Vázquez, waiting for a replacement for Patricia Guasp to be elected in primaries, who resigned from being the political spokesperson a few weeks ago.
The Ciudadanos leadership considers that the taunts against Vázquez and his executive launched by Igea, and supported by the former deputy in Congress Edmundo Bal, who has also been expelled, "crossed the line of what is acceptable" and that the accusations and "attacks personal" of these critics, who have already started a new journey on the Nexo platform, are "unacceptable" in any organization.
Finally, after Igea's announcement of not delivering the deputy's certificate to Ciudadanos, the formation "that gave him the opportunity to be a representative in Cortes, in an election in which the entire party worked to maintain representation in the institutions of Castilla y León", as the statement explains, the party demands that, "for ethics and coherence", Igea delivers its minutes, "even more so after having known its intentions to found a new political project."
"We would not understand in any way that after so many lessons on dignity, and so many statements when others did not resign their seats in the same context, in the end he ended up retaining the minutes of a political formation that he himself has renounced to represent" , concludes the Ciudadanos statement in a defiant tone.
"The candidate is still active and that program is still active," Igea has defended himself, whose intention is "not to deceive or defraud the voters" and to continue as attorney in the Cortes. "The second on the list already works for the PP and we are not going to give the PP the opposition after having given them the government at the time against my opinion," concluded the Castilian parliamentarian, who says he regrets that Ciudadanos "has taken the decision to cease to exist in the community".
