The Ciudadanos primaries intensify

Not even the most pessimistic predicted the drift into which Ciudadanos has ended up falling. The formation that tried to reinvent itself after more than six months working on the “refoundation” process, has ended up broken and fractured into two sides in just a few weeks. And its main leaders are immersed in a bitter exchange of accusations a few hours before the party’s few remaining members – some 7,600 – decide which of the two competing candidacies is going to manage the wreckage. The swords between the supporters of Inés Arrimadas and those of Edmundo Bal, with the state lawyer himself at the helm, remain high and sharper than ever just as the internal campaign led by the leaders of both lists is coming to an end. “We are not going to allow more lies, insults or condescension”, The Balearic leader Patricia Guasp, who leads the list of Arrimadas, warned her rivals.