Madrid, (EFE) of the State, as confirmed to EFE by sources close to him.
Bal, one of Albert Rivera’s star signings for the April 2019 elections, rules out running for the Cs primaries for the general elections scheduled for December, because he is not willing, the sources have indicated, to once again face the disqualifications that they were poured against him during his confrontation with Inés Arrimadas -she was part of the official candidacy- for the leadership of the party.
In addition, he is aware that Ciudadanos has almost all the cards to avoid entering Congress, according to most of the surveys, and he does not see it as useful to be the only orange deputy, which would be what they would achieve in the best of scenarios, according to They point from their core.
Return to his job as a state attorney
Edmundo Bal will return to his job as a State lawyer, which he has practiced since he was 25 years old and in which he achieved notoriety with the trials of the Gürtel plot and the process.
He made the leap into politics after being relieved as head of the criminal department of the State Attorney’s Office in November 2018 due to his discrepancies in the 1-O case.
Faithful squire of Arrimadas
Bal survived the Cs debacle in the November 2019 elections and after Rivera’s departure, he became Arrimadas’ faithful squire. He sacrificed himself for her in the regional elections that Isabel Díaz Ayuso advanced in Madrid in May 2021, which left the oranges to zero in the Assembly, adding the umpteenth defeat.
Then came the re-founding of the party to try to revive it for this electoral year and that was where a traumatic break with Arrimadas precipitated.