The regional coordinator remains faithful to the project and believes that it can be “returned” but being “critical and constructive”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The autonomous coordinator of Ciudadanos (Cs), Enrique Arriaga, supports the process of refounding the orange formation but understands that the deadline open until February is “late” and demands that the changes begin to be seen “as soon as possible”.
In statements to Europa Press, he pointed out that some “intermediate milestone” is needed to excite militants and potential voters at a time that “is not easy” after the continuous loss of votes in the last regional elections.
Arriaga, also vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, has pointed out that “the big mistake of Ciudadanos was that it grew from top to bottom” and Congress was “more important” than the communities and municipalities “and it has to be the other way around, the base It is municipalism.
For this reason, he pointed out, all municipal projects are going to be “reinforced” and later “the brand, the message and the positioning” will be analyzed to “develop an ideology and some core issues” with which to “excite” the society.
Arriaga met this Tuesday afternoon with the Canarian affiliates in an assembly, who asked for some “sign of change” to start seeing results, while specifying that this is not the time for “internal fights” but for “all together” to get the job done.
He has indicated that “everything is going to change”, including a possible “change of leadership” of Inés Arrimadas although “now it is not time” because it would imply holding an extraordinary congress and all municipal structures would decline when local elections are already being prepared and regional governments in 2023. “Facing the elections, it is unfeasible,” he pointed out.
Arriaga has insisted that now “it is time to be united” until the work of the refoundation commission is completed and its agreements are voted by the militancy, a previous step to later discuss the leadership in the formation.
In the case of the Canary Islands, it has indicated that they will present themselves to the elections “where there are candidates”, without forgetting that in those of 2019 they were already absent in some municipalities and the party had more presence.
“We will go where there are guarantees, not to present ourselves in any way because in the last elections some candidates were taken with tweezers and the people elected were not the right ones,” he indicated.
Despite the poor electoral results, Arriaga confesses himself ‘faithful’ to the project.
“If not, I wouldn’t be where I am and more so being critical, if it were destructive I would have already gone to another political project, I still believe in this project, it can be refounded and rebuilt, but yes, being critical and constructive”, has commented.
