The ‘casting’ opened by Citizens to choose their candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía becomes entangled. The vice president of the autonomous government and regional coordinator of the party, Juan Marín, will fight for the position with eight other applicants. Among them will not be the Andalusian deputy Fran Carrillo, who was excluded by the Guarantees Commission of the liberal party for not being aware of his contribution as a public position to the orange formation, which is around 8% of the salary charged by institutional representatives.
Cs sources specified that Carrillo Yes you have paid your monthly fee of 10 euros as an affiliate, but not the contribution to the party as public office. As stated in the resolution
of last Thursday in which the candidates are provisionally proclaimed, has been discarded by «not being up to date with their obligations as an affiliate and, in particular, with regard to the contribution economic ”that all its institutional representatives and organic positions must carry out to the party.
The party estimates that he owes around 4,000 euros and urges him to pay them before 22:00 this Friday to be able to present himself. However, the deputy will challenge this resolution because he considers that such a donation, which he qualifies as “Revolutionary tax”, is voluntary and it cannot be a cause of exclusion in an organic electoral process.
For this reason, this wayward deputy with the management of Juan Marín has been provisionally ruled out of the primary race. You have a period of 24 hours to correct the cause of exclusion or settle this debt that expires at 10:00 p.m. today, Friday, as detailed in the resolution signed by the president of the Guarantee Commission. Along with him, another militant, José Antonio Pérez Alías, has been excluded because he is responsible for social networks in a municipal group with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
Those who have passed the court to dispute the candidacy for Marín are eight candidates, most of them anonymous affiliates. One of them is the spokesperson for the critical platform ‘Renovadores Cs’, Carmen Almagro, and the other is the jienense Elena New. The latter, an industrial engineer and professor at the University of Huelva, already contested the position of the regional leader in July 2018. Without having organic positions, this affiliate from Huelva capital gathered 23% of the votes, mostly dissatisfied with the party apparatus, which closed ranks around Marín, who won with 67% support in a remote-controlled primaries from Madrid.
Both Carrillo and Almagro had criticized the surprise convocation of the primaries in the past bridge of the Immaculate Conception. «The affiliate is being robbed of his right to hear alternatives and different ideas. Only three days of campaign for eight provinces. The militancy does not deserve that lack of respect “, lamented the deputy Fran Carrillo, who was removed in July from the deputy spokesman in the Andalusian Parliament, like the spokesman Sergio Romero. The regional leadership relieved both of them in their positions to promote parliamentarians related to the vice president.
Marín rejected this Thursday the verbal darts that his rivals have directed him after the call for the process, ensuring that it complies with all the “guarantees” in accordance with the party’s statutes. «Stale, dirty and slum politics I leave it to those who want to do it“Said the vice president in an interview on Canal Sur Radio, where he claimed not to know the number of affiliates of the formation he directs and justified that the census is not provided to aspiring candidates, claiming that it is” prevented “by the Law of Protection of Data.
“I am not on these issues, I have to lead a government, I dedicate myself to work,” he replied. To those who accuse him of wanting to go to the PP, suspicions that increased after his participation in a talk with the spokesperson of the Board, Elijah BendodoIn the last regional congress of the popular, Marín also sent them a message: “I am not going to go on a list other than Citizens.” He also said it in an interview on ABC, before Arrimadas opened the door to go on joint lists with the PP in the regional elections of 2022.
Members of the Andalusian Government have already provided their support to Marín, as are the councilors Rogelio Velasco, Rocío Blanco and Javier Imbroda, all from Cs, as well as the president of the Andalusian Parliament, Marta Bosquet.
The fourth competitor to make her candidacy public before the deadline expired last Thursday at 9:00 p.m. was Elena Bago. She is an industrial engineer, was born in Jaén and lives in Huelva. Bago assures that he will fight with Marín and Carrillo because both “are only fighting to merge with the PP.” Affiliate of Citizens in Huelva capital since February 2, 2015, this Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Huelva, yesterday sent a message to the affiliates in which he regrets that the project of the liberal party “has been dying in the midst of the clamorous silence of those who today are asking again” for the vote in the primaries.
Message to affiliates
In his writing he attacks erratic decisions that the training has made, such as allowing himself to be “fooled” by the PSOE by Susana Díaz supporting his inauguration in 2015. As of 2018, with the entry of Cs into a government shared with the popular ones, «Comrade Marín, instead of doing a differentiated management with the PP, has mimicked the party of Juanma Moreno». “If a sociologist studied Ciudadanos de Andalucía, he would give us a choice between these two options: either you have been led by Saint Teresa of Calcutta, or by the most clumsy politician in your history,” Bago said ironically.
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