PP and Vox fight to keep the legacy of Ciudadanos in Catalonia and its few votes in Euskadi

Ciudadanos is preparing to disappear from the map and the PP and Vox know it. Both forces will fight in the next elections with the polls to keep the few remaining voters of the party that Albert Rivera founded in Catalonia, and that after denying its initials to call itself “liberal”, has just recovered them in a last attempt. to reclaim his past. In that autonomy, the leader of the party, Carlos Carrizosa, has decided to run again as a candidate for the Generalitat after the failure of negotiations with Feijóo to go together in a single candidacy. In Euskadi, although the three rights remain irrelevant, the decision of the dismembered Ciudadanos leadership not to attend the April 21 meeting also opens up possibilities for PP and Vox to divide up the tiny gap that the formation hypothetically leaves there, which will never He achieved representation by going solo.

However, the main focus of the dispute will be on the Catalan elections of May 12, which is where Ciudadanos was born in 2006 and grew under the leadership of Rivera until achieving a feat in 2017: being the first political force. They achieved it with Inés Arrimadas as a candidate, who obtained 36 seats, 11 more than in the previous elections held in 2015, in which the Jerez native had already reached another magical number, 25 deputies compared to the 9 left by the leader of the party before. to make the leap into national politics.