With all the polls against and numerous affiliates and elected officials on the run, Ciudadanos (Cs) has formalized a coalition agreement this Thursday with the regionalist formation Tú Aragón to concur together in the Aragonese community in the next regional and municipal elections of 28 of May.
The union between the two, which aims to "widen and unify" the Aragonese center, was signed at noon at the Liberal headquarters in Zaragoza. According to the agreement reached, the orange formation will dominate the electoral lists in urban centers, while the recent split of the Aragonese Party (PAR) will do so in rural areas, where it is more deeply rooted. For the moment, the coalition has managed to close one hundred candidacies and they hope to reach 130
"We got together two forces to make a space for a powerful center and that the extremes are not going to decide the next government," Carlos Ortas, the regional leader of the oranges who is also running for the presidency of Aragon, said at the event.
Encouraging words that, however, collide head-on with electoral expectations, nothing rosy for the future of both formations. The polls even question the entry of Cs in the main Aragonese institutions, where he needs 3% of the votes to enter the Cortes and 5% to get a councilor in the Zaragoza City Council.
Negotiations between the two groups began after the appointment a few weeks ago of Ortas as the new autonomous leader of Cs in Aragon.
Since then, his group has polled various parties in search of an agreement with which to try to overcome the internal crisis and vote expectations that threaten to lead them to total political irrelevance.
The final partner chosen is Tú Aragón, another downward formation headed by Natalia Lascorz. This is the latest split resulting from the implosion of the PAR, the traditional Aragonese center party key in the development of the latest regional governments.
Currently, this formation is going through the lowest moments in its entire history, afflicted by its internal fights, judicial problems and with its last leader, the current vice president of the Community Arturo Aliaga, deposed after an internal motion of no confidence.
This situation has led to the disbandment of its members, and another of its splits, Aragoneses, announced a few days ago its integration into the PP lists for the next elections.
The presentation of the coalition comes a week after the block resignation from the party of the six orange councilors of the Zaragoza consistory, who are now listed as non-attached, and it is expected that at least three of them will become part of the electoral lists that the PP regional will announce this Friday.
His rout adds to that carried out in recent days by other positions of the liberal formation in the municipalities of Madrid, San Juan (Alicante) and other towns in Spain.
At the event in Zaragoza, its general secretary, Adrián Vázquez, did not mention these problems and limited himself to pointing out that the new coalition was created with the intention of creating a "united and strong" center that would be "decisive" when it came to decide the future of government in the region.
