Madrid (EFE) to welcome into its ranks politicians dissatisfied with both the PSOE and Vox.
Five days after Martín Blanco, who was a spokesman for Cs in Parliament and a member of the National Executive Committee of Citizens, announced that he was leaving the party, the PP has designated him as number one on its list for Barcelona to Congress.
“Everyone is welcome”, said the PP campaign spokesman, Borja Sémper, at the press conference after the meeting of the party’s Management Committee and the Electoral Committee that has ratified the candidates who will lead the lists for Congress of the Deputies and that will lead from Madrid, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
A list with the number one of each province in which 40% are women, highlighted the president of the Electoral Committee, Diego Calvo, after influencing that 39 of the 52 names are renewed, 75% of the previous list presented in 2019.
Charges from Citizens but also politicians from the PSOE and Vox, in their teams
Among the new additions is the exporter of Cs in the Parliament of Catalonia Nacho Martín Blanco and the former councilor of the orange formation in Salou Pere Lluís Huguet, although Sémper has added that there will be room “for new talent that arrives” especially from other formations and that they see in the PP “an alternative to design a better Spain”.
In this sense, he has not only referred to the Ciudadanos candidates but also to politicians dissatisfied with the PSOE and Vox and that “although some are not on the lists they are collaborating in the teams” with the popular ones.
“We are going to have the best… we are looking for the best everywhere. We did it with the lists for the municipal and regional elections and we are doing it now, because we are at stake and above that particular interest is the general interest”, Sémper said after adding that the PP wants to “draw a Spain” in which politicians are not so important and where the relationship between them is not relevant.
The PP campaign spokesman has indicated that in the coming days the party’s list heads will be known by the Senate while the lists with the rest of the names continue to be drawn up.
Semper’s position on the Madrid list
Faced with the question of whether he will be the number two candidate, after Feijóo, on the Madrid list for Congress, he has indicated that he has only been told that he is on that list but not the position and that it is reasonable for him to include himself on it because he is registered in Madrid, lives in Madrid and “I have no intention of leaving”.
“Nothing has been decided”, Sémper has had an impact while reiterating that the PP would be delighted that there are “many talented people who see in Feijóo the solutions he has for Spain”.
In this regard, he has pointed out that what is happening in Catalonia is that Feijóo’s political project has been able to reflect the Ciudadanos project and has appreciated that there are people from the PSOE or Vox who also trust him.
At the moment, PP sources indicate that this Tuesday there will be a meeting in Aranjuez with the heads of the list from all over Spain.
Cs accuses the PP of wanting to “confuse” the electorate
From Ciudadanos, its leader in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, has accused the PP of trying to “confuse” the electorate with the signing of Nacho Martín Blanco.
At a press conference, Carrizosa has denounced that the popular ones are trying to “confuse” their potential voters, whom he has warned that “they will not be voting for Cs or the speech” that Martín Blanco had up to now, but for someone who “has the PP sticker and that it belongs to the PP”.
“The people who vote for this person will not be voting for Cs or the speech that this person had in Cs, they will not be voting for the liberal center, for the work that we carry out unscathed against corruption, for the way in which we deal with nationalism in Catalonia” , has added.