There is only one week left for the big test of Ciudadanos. The new leadership of the party is examined at the polls next Sunday for the first time since it took the reins of the formation last January, with an "upward" but insufficient trend, for now. Seven days before the election of 28-M, the leadership of CS has concentrated its forces this Sunday in Palma, where it has held one of the most important events of the campaign, in which Patricia Guasp, national spokesperson of the party, has played a double role.
As national leader of Ciudadanos, Guasp has disdained the polls that, for now, give them at most entry into the Parliament of Asturias and some municipalities of provincial capitals such as Palencia, Albacete, Alicante and Ciudad Real. "Ciudadanos is here because we are going to break the politics of blocs of the left and the right. To leave behind failed policies, make avant-garde politics, "said Guasp during his speech. "That is the only way to guarantee a future of progress," he said.
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The party has brought together a few dozen people in the Mar de Palma park, in front of the cathedral. During these last days, the campaign team has adopted a model of acts "away from the rally format", "open" and "at street level", in the style of the tents that distribute electoral propaganda but with the addition of attention to the media.
On possible pacts, the national spokeswoman for Citizens has assured that, if they become "decisive", there will be no "preferred partners" between PP and PSOE – as happened in the 2019 elections, when CS formed four regional governments and numerous local executives in coalition with the popular ones. The only condition is to leave "nationalists" and "extremists" out of the equation. "The PSOE and the PP will have to choose between our reformism or the immobility that their pacts of the setback suppose," Guasp said in reference to possible agreements of the Socialists with Podemos and the popular with Vox. The party also claims to be the only formation defending the "squeezed families" and accuses the PP of "copying" its proposals.
The act of Citizens, in Palma, this Sunday. Tomàs Moyà (Europa Press)
Guasp has in turn censured Pedro Sánchez for the announcement of the 580 million euros for primary care that the President of the Government advanced this Saturday in Valencia, and that will be approved in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday. "It's an electioneering auction. Where have these millions been so far? The Socialist Party does the same as always, promise, promise and promise," he criticized.
In addition to promoting, as leader of CS, the 808 candidacies of Citizens presented throughout Spain – half of the lists registered in 2019 and close to those ratified in 2015 – Guasp is also the candidate of Citizens to the Balearic Government, where she has served as parliamentary spokesperson during the last years in a group composed of five seats. And in that sense it has also been vindicated this Sunday. "It is a shame that Armengol wants to reissue the pact of the ruins of the Balearic Islands, that the PSOE looks to the extremes to govern, instead of the center. These elections are not about the lesser evil, but about real change."
Management sources are "optimistic" and hope to achieve representation in Asturias, the Region of Murcia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands itself, where Guasp is a candidate. Although most polls indicate otherwise. Hence, the most relevant appointments during the campaign have been located precisely in the squares where permanence, in his opinion, is still possible. "Both PSOE and PP are conservatives of everything that does not work in our country. They are the gangrene of our democracy, "said Guasp on Saturday, in Murcia.
The weight of what happens next Sunday in the elections will fall on the shoulders of Guasp, both nationally and in the Balearic Islands. However, from the spokeswoman's environment they assure that she is "calm" and "without pressure" beyond the "confidence" of having arrived with the duties done. The question is whether it will be enough battering ram to survive. In any case, his legitimacy to continue leading CS will undoubtedly be conditioned to his own result obtained in the Balearic Islands.
He receives every afternoon the bulletin Diario de elecciones, written by the deputy director of EL PAÍS Claudi Pérez. And here, the x-ray of all the communities that go to the polls.
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