The president of Ciudadanos (Cs) Cantabria, Félix Ãlvarez, has resigned this Wednesday from his position after the “unappealably bad” results in the elections on Sunday, which left his party out of the regional Parliament and the majority of city councils in which He had representation, to which he has added “personal exhaustion” and the need to rest.
In a press conference in which he was going to talk about the situation of his party, which only obtained 17 councilors -15 of them in Astillero-, Ãlvarez has emotionally and tearfully announced this decision that he has communicated to the national leadership in the morning of Citizens. “One has to take responsibility when things go well but, above all, if he is honest, when they go wrong. For this reason, to which must be added personal exhaustion, the need to stop, to reinvent myself”, he explained Ãlvarez who leaves his position after seven years in the party and of which, he has announced, he will continue to be a member.
Ãlvarez has pointed out that there is no name that sounds like to occupy his position, although for now it will be the organization secretary of Ciudadanos Cantabria, José Luis MartÃnez, who will assume it. In addition, he has defended the decision taken by Ciudadanos not to attend the call for general elections on July 23 as an “intelligent” decision, because now he is “off the game board” and because they have become a “Sánchez yes, Sánchez no”, from which his party “must depart”.
“The best thing was to stop, try to rearm. I believe that the party began to suffer when the citizens saw us as useless to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves and I believe that one of the facts that can get us out of that is to return to being useful, I believe that what happened yesterday is an act of utility for Spain”, Ãlvarez opined.
Known as ‘Felisuco’ in the media, his life changed radically when he won a joke contest on an Antena 3 television program. In the late 1990s he rose to fame for being part of the cast of the successful Telecinco program El Informal -together with Florentino Fernández, Javier Capitán, Inma del Moral, Miki Nadal or Patricia Conde-.
He moved from humor to the heart in 2002, when he co-presented the program A tu lado with Emma GarcÃa. He was a regular on different television shows during the first decade of the century. He even changed registration again at the beginning of 2014, when he was appointed vice president of Racing Club de Santander, his hometown team, in a stage that would last less than a month.
Already without a presence on the small screen for a long time, in 2016 it would be when he would enter the world of politics at the hands of Ciudadanos. He was proposed as number one on the list to the Congress of Deputies for Cantabria in the 2016 general elections. Seven years later he put an end to this political stage.
