“They are very nervous, but we resist the challenge”. Ciudadanos does not shrink in the final stretch of the campaign before the threats that the Popular Party makes to definitively absorb the orange voter. The Liberals cling to the calculations in territories such as Aragon, Murcia and Asturias, and to the Madrid City Council as a “key” piece, to assert that the heart of the party will continue to beat on Monday after passing through the polls and will have the ability to come back again. face to december

The information published this Thursday by this newspaper in which it was ensured that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has focused on the residual percentage that the vote of Ciudadanos can suppose to sentence the 28-M in favor of the right has generated deep discomfort in the dome of the liberal formation.

“He does not despise us; he despises our voter,” considers Adrián Vázquez, general secretary of Ciudadanos, in statements to EL MUNDO. “Despising the rest of the voters for not voting for him [Alberto Núñez Feijóo] shows a lack of absolute respect. It is not very democratic,” says the liberal leader.

But the reading that Vázquez makes goes even beyond contempt for the orange electorate: “It indicates that the PP has not succeeded, despite everything they have invested, and also in a corrupt and false way on many occasions, has not managed to get us down from 3 %, nor the possibility of deciding the mayoralty of Madrid, or deciding the governments in Murcia, Aragon or Asturias”.

In fact, in Ciudadanos they say they are convinced that the PP has been lowering expectations throughout the campaign when they realize that “the national map will not be dyed blue” as a step prior to the December elections. For this reason, Feijóo is forced, they say, to focus on Ciudadanos to try to get votes through a direct attack on the liberal electorate: “They have hit the stick”.

“They are selling the bear's skin before hunting it,” predicts the orange secretary general, who defends that Ciudadanos is the only option for the center that guarantees the breaking of blocks and that the extremes are left out of the regional and local governments that come this Sunday to the polls.

“It does not represent even a quarter of the Spanish”, criticizes the leader of Ciudadanos about Feijóo's attitude. A climate on the final day of the campaign that inevitably conditions the relationship between both forces facing the day after: “We take note, of course. We do not forget”, Vazquez ditches on this issue.

The efforts of Ciudadanos in this closing of campaign are precisely focused on the crucial points for the party this Sunday. After passing through Asturias yesterday, the party’s leadership will be in Zaragoza today and will close campaign in Madrid. “We know that we are going to decide the mayoralty”, insist in Ciudadanos about the options of Begoña Villacís this weekend. Her result at the polls is understood as the real litmus test for the party.

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