Without being able to hide his pessimism about the future of Ciudadanos, Nacho MartÃn Blanco, until this Thursday a member of the party’s permanent executive and spokesman for the group in Parliament, has announced that he is leaving all his institutional and organic positions and is abandoning the formation, considering This political project was unfeasible after the last electoral debacle in the local and regional elections in May and the decision of the leadership, endorsed by himself, not to attend the general elections in July.
“I have lost hope in the viability of this party”, MartÃn Blanco began by saying this midday at a press conference called suddenly in the Parliament to justify his departure from Ciudadanos and the resignation of his organic positions and his seat, a decision in which he has recognized that “elevated and noble reasons and other more prosaic reasons” have weighed.
The politician, however, does not consider leaving public life and has said goodbye to journalists with a “see you very soon” that has left open the possibility of a jump to the PP with which there has been speculation for some time. Today, in any case, MartÃn Blanco has remained silent about his next steps when specifically asked if he would agree to lead the PP list for Barcelona for the July 23 elections. He hasn’t ruled out such a possibility, but he hasn’t confirmed it either.
“What you can’t talk about, you have to keep quiet,” Nacho MartÃn Blanco has limited himself to saying about his immediate future, although he has not hesitated to align himself with the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo by assuring that a change is necessary in the current situation of Spain and charging against the “will to power” of Pedro Sánchez, which leads him to agree, in his opinion, with parties that “break coexistence”, as one of the main problems of the country.
In this sense, he has affirmed that he is very clear about which party he will vote for on July 23, but he did not want to give more details until he can speak “consistently”. “I am not leaving public life. A party is an instrument at the service of society and my commitment is to the citizenry, it does not end here”, has defended MartÃn Blanco, who has had words of praise for all his fellow ranks, especially for Carlos Carrizosa, and recalled the “good service” provided by Ciudadanos in Catalonia in the face of the “omnimodous hegemony” of nationalism.
MartÃn Blanco’s announcement comes a week after Ciudadanos gave up running in the general elections on July 23, understanding that the “polarized” context of these elections was not favorable for the formation, which was practically swept off the Spanish political map in the regional and municipal elections on May 28.
After the departure of Inés Arrimadas, that of MartÃn Blanco is the first significant loss suffered by Ciudadanos in Catalonia after the poor results of the last municipal elections, in which he obtained ten councilors in the entire community and was left out of the Barcelona City Council .
Noemà de la Calle, who was already a deputy in the Parliament in the previous legislature, will replace the vacancy of MartÃn Blanco, while Anna Grau will be the new deputy spokesperson for the Ciudadanos group in the Catalan Chamber.
