Ciudadanos Euskadi has left the parliamentary group that it shared with the PP in the Basque Parliament and will join the Mixed Group that is made up of the only Vox parliamentarian, Amaia Martínez. PP and Cs concurred together in the 2020 regional elections and with this decision, the coalition is totally disintegrated. The president of Ciudadanos (CS) Euskadi and Basque parliamentarian, José Manuel Gil, registered this morning in the Basque Parliament his departure from the Basque Popular-Ciudadanos Group to join the Mixed Group for the remainder of the legislature. “We have endured more than necessary,” Gil acknowledged..
The parliamentarian acknowledges that, together with the PP, he has suffered “tensions” and blames the fact that the agreement with the popular “has been hard”, as well as defending the same position in the Basque parliament as the party “that has done the most to destroy Ciudadanos “. “I have endured everything and there is a moment when it no longer makes sense, adds Gil after being asked by El Confidencial. The decision to leave the popular group in the Basque Parliament has been “taken for a long time (…) Being in a coalition with the PP is not very coherent”, sentence.
I have communicated to Parliament's table my transfer to the mixed group. The union of Basque constitutionalism is necessary, but now it is not possible. At CS we work to rebuild, also in the Basque Country, a space for a progressive and liberal center that overcomes the current situation of blocks
– José Manuel Gil (@josem_gil3) July 26, 2023
José Manuel Gil has assured that he will continue to defend a “centre”, “liberal” and “progressive” position, even if he does not do so under the acronym of the Ciudadano parliamentary group, as well as betting on “linguistic freedom, educational quality, the mental health, youth employment or the modernization of the administration”. The Basque elections will be held during the year 2024 and Gil does not ensure that the party he represents will do so under the “Ciudadanos” brand. The formation, according to Gil, is in a new process that aims to rejuvenate the brand in view of holding a hypothetical general election.