Logroño, Feb 22 (EFE).- Por La Rioja is the new political party that has been presented this Wednesday in Logroño, promoted by discontents of the regional PP and the Rioja Party (PR+) and that offers itself, before the elections of 28 February May, as a “responsible, coherent, hopeful and vocation of government” alternative.
Currently, the new formation, which is open to all who want to join, includes people linked to the La Rioja PP, some already ex-affiliated, dissatisfied with the appointment of Gonzalo Capellán as candidate for the Presidency of the Government of La Rioja next May 28 without holding a congress.
They are joined by members and former members of the PR+, contrary to the pact with España Vaciada to contest the next regional and municipal elections.
“We are united by our passion for La Rioja and our concern for its future,” stressed one of its promoters, Alberto Bretón, who was general secretary of the popular Riojans and who, last January, resigned from the PP after 21 years of militancy and resigned from his act of regional deputy because that congress had not been held.
Bretón, who was also a government delegate in La Rioja and adviser to the regional Executive, added that this project wants to be “an option for good government in this community, where not all parties are the same and not all politicians are the same.”
He has said that this party, which will hold a congress in March to choose its candidates, arises from “weariness, weariness and disappointment in the national parties, those that tell us they believe in democracy and that we have seen that they are not capable of practicing that democracy in its internal structures”.
“We are also tired – he continued – of this tension and degeneration in the political debate on a national scale, in which insults and disqualification predominate, and that is not the policy we want”.
For La Rioja, he stressed, “it will think, fundamentally, of people” and will defend “autonomy, self-government and the greatest capacity to manage the greatest number of powers”.
“We understand politics from public service and closeness,” said Bretón, who described this project as “democratic, social, Riojan, autonomist, vindictive, participatory and proud of the Riojan identity that gives it character.”
Another of the promoters of this new political formation, Borja Jiménez, former president of the Youth of PR+, has opted for young people, sports and the people and, shouting “For La Rioja”, has appealed to “fill the ballot boxes with illusion” on May 28.
