The announcement by Inés Arrimadas that she is leaving her home in Madrid to move to Jerez de la Frontera, which was announced last Wednesday, has opened up the question of her political future, at a time when the crisis she is facing Ciudadanos is causing a trail of membership losses and charges.
Although the former president of the liberal formation, who in January handed over the baton to a collegiate leadership headed by Patricia Guasp and Adrián Vázquez, assured that the decision was solely due to her desire to be closer to the family, she has not avoided suspicions about a possible approach to the PP to be the candidate for the general elections for the province of Cádiz.
The new leadership of Ciudadanos, which considers it a turncoat and a form of political corruption for a position elected by one party to transfer to another formation without renouncing its act, has closed ranks with Arrimadas, who is part of the “present” and not only of the “past”, said Guasp in a recent interview in Europa Press.
Mother of two young children, Arrimadas was born in Jerez de la Frontera in 1981 and most of her family resides there. Now, returning to her hometown after having lived for many years in Barcelona and more recently in Madrid, as she has argued, she will be able to better reconcile her professional and personal life.
“Being able to spend more and better time with the children is priceless. And, although you already know that I have never needed excuses to go to Jerez, we have made this decision thinking about the best from a personal point of view for the whole family”, he assured on Instagram to illustrate a photo with his family in the Plaza de Aladro in Jerez.
All in all, the delicate situation that his party is going through, with a constant trickle of leaks towards the PP -the last ones revealed, those of two councilors of the Madrid City Council and that of the Zaragoza municipal group en bloc-, has been able to weigh in some way in the decision of Arrimadas, who in this way could, according to some voices, be preparing his own rapprochement with the popular ranks.
To silence these conjectures, the spokesperson for Ciudadanos in Congress added to the announcement of her move a glowing praise for her party, “the only one that defends the Spain of free and equals for which it is worth fighting.” And in case there was any doubt about her faith in the project, she stressed: “You already know: I always with Ciudadanos.”
This being the case, the mystery that this move opens will not be completely cleared up until the electoral race for the next generals begins. When they are called, Ciudadanos will have to choose their candidate for the presidency of the Government in primaries and, today, with the parliamentary group mired in discouragement, no one has confirmed that they aspire to that responsibility.
