The former spokesperson for Ciudadanos in Congress Juan Carlos Girauta has decided to return to politics with Vox four years after leaving the orange party after the formation then led by Inés Arriamdas supported the Government in the extension of the declaration of the state alarm for the covid pandemic. He will be number three in the elections to the European Parliament on June 9, as El Confidencial announced this Thursday and La Vanguardia has been able to confirm.
According to the digital, ahead, Girauta will have on the list of Santiago Abascal’s party the vice president of political action and current MEP Jorge Buxadé and the journalist and also MEP Hermann Tertsch. It was precisely Tertsch who confirmed to La Vanguardia the presence of the Catalan on the Vox list.
The integration of Girauta is, for the moment, a proposal that the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, will have to convey to his National Executive Committee (CEN) in a meeting scheduled for this Sunday in Vitoria. Once received, the Vox Executive will have to approve it.
Girauta has declared himself “delighted” with the Vox leader’s proposal. “It’s an honor,” he told Europa Press. Regarding his colleagues on the list, the lawyer and journalist also highlights the “admiration” that he feels for his “friends of many years.”
Vox has good expectations for the European elections. In this sense, a recent survey carried out by Ipsos for Euronews to which La Vanguardia has had access places it as the third Spanish force in Brussels after the PP and the PSOE with 6 seats and 10.4% support when in 2019 it won only three deputies with 6.28% of the votes.
Girauta’s political life in Cs was completely linked to that of the former leader of the party Albert Rivera. After the elections of November 9, 2019, when the party lost 47 deputies in one fell swoop, going from 57 to 10 in just six months, Rivera left politics and Girauta left the front line, considering that “a good man has been crushed.” and I don’t want to be there after that.”
But the last straw was the support that Arriamadas gave to Pedro Sánchez’s executive in the extension of the state of alarm in May 2020. The former Orange deputy then announced his resignation as a member. “We don’t work that hard to build a hinge. I have just formally communicated my withdrawal as a member of Ciudadanos,” Girauta said in a message on his Twitter account.
