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Inés Arrimadas has assured that Ciudadanos does not change its criteria, but rather those who have resigned do so. José Manuel Villegas has invited anyone who does not share the management's opinion on the investiture to leave the formation. This Monday, the party's Executive voted overwhelmingly to continue with the strategy of refusing to facilitate the socialist leader's revalidation of the Presidency of the Government. These are the public figures who ask PP and Cs not to block the investiture of Pedro Sánchez . After the wave of resignations in Ciudadanos , where several officials have resigned from militancy due to disagreements with the Management over the investiture strategy, this Tuesday the party's spokesperson in Congress, Inés Arrimadas, once again emphasized that the course of Ciudadanos continues being to prevent Sánchez from becoming president of the Government again.
In an interview on Antena 3 , Arrimadas stated that his party had "an agreement not to make Pedro Sánchez president that must be fulfilled" , adding that it is those who have left the party, and not Ciudadanos, who have modified their criteria. . The parliamentary spokesperson for Albert Rivera's party has also recalled that this veto to make Sánchez SW Business Directory president came forward in its day precisely with the support of Toni Roldán or Javier Nart - who yesterday presented their resignation - and other critical voices such as those of the MEP. Luis Garicano or that of the party leader in Castilla y León, Francisco Igea. Invited to "step aside" Along the same lines that Arrimadas defends, the general secretary of Ciudadanos, José Manuel Villegas, spoke out this Tuesday, justifying the organic decision to veto Sánchez by referring to the decision that the party's Executive took by majority this Monday.
Therefore, Villegas has insisted, the Ciudadanos leaders must abide by the decision made yesterday, although if they do not share it it has opened the door for them to take "a step aside . " "Those who lose have two positions: assume the vote as their own, because it is the position that is decided by the majority, or take a step aside. What is not valid is not assuming the democratic decisions of the party bodies." Both Arrimadas and Villegas have stressed that, according to them, Pedro Sánchez has already closed the investiture agreement and that, therefore, the PSOE would not need the abstention of Ciudadanos. Cs remains 'in the center' The leader of Ciudadanos in Andalusia and vice president of the Board of that autonomy, Juan Marín, has also closed ranks around the Directorate, ensuring that the party has not turned to the right , but rather that "it is where it needs to be, in the center political".