The National Committee of Ciudadanos decided on Tuesday not to submit lists for the early parliamentary elections of July 23 in Spaingiven that “the message of the local elections was very clear”, the party’s secretary-general, Adrián Vázquez, indicated.
According to Vázquez, the decision was taken at an emergency meeting of Ciudadanos, the only party body that has the authority to decide whether to contest the elections, and is also based on the idea that the party is “not seen as a transformative force”.
Since the electoral disaster of November 2019, which led to the resignation of Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos has accumulated failures in various elections in recent years.
Sunday’s regional and municipal elections were another major setback, as they failed to win representatives in any of the contested autonomous regions and lost almost all councilors elected four years ago.
According to the EuropaPress agency, even the party’s national spokeswoman, Patricia Guasp, failed to renew her seat in the Balearic Parliament, and Madrid’s deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, also lost her seat.
Overall, the PP was the party with more than 97% of the votes counted in Sunday’s municipal elections in Spain, with 31.5% of the vote, followed by the PSOE with 28.18%.
The results reflect a change from the previous municipal elections in 2019, in which the PSOE won 29.38% of the vote and the PP 22.62%.
This is also considered the PP’s first electoral victory in Spain since 2015.
The results also confirm the rise of the far right, with VOX taking 7.19% of the vote in Tuesday’s local elections, up from 3.56% in 2019.
Source: DN
