(Politics) Francisco Igea: "This is not Madrid nor is it about sanchismo or freedom"

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The vice president of Castilla y León is the candidate, without primaries, of Ciudadanos to preside over the Board

Laziness gives me ”, he ironizes before the formidable challenge that he now faces. Pepito Grillo of the orange dome after contesting the leadership of Inés Arrimadas, Francisco Igea (Valladolid, 1964) is the candidate, without primaries, of Ciudadanos to preside over the Junta de Castilla y León, of which he has been vice president until the unexpected electoral advance .

Francisco Igea: "This is not Madrid nor is it about sanchismo or freedom"
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The vice president of Castilla y León is the candidate, without primaries, of Ciudadanos to preside over the Board
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Francisco Igea: "This is not Madrid nor is it about sanchismo or freedom"
JULIO HURTADO

BARCELONA

03/01/2022 00: 05Updated to 03/01/2022 07:00
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Laziness gives me ”, he ironizes before the formidable challenge that he now faces. Pepito Grillo of the orange dome after contesting the leadership of Inés Arrimadas, Francisco Igea (Valladolid, 1964) is the candidate, without primaries, of Ciudadanos to preside over the Junta de Castilla y León, of which he has been vice president until the unexpected electoral advance .

The shadow of Genoa
"Mañueco doesn't do anything without asking, it wouldn't have occurred to him to do this"
What do you think that Arrimadas makes the mistake of having given the PP four regional presidencies in 2019?

I already made that assessment then. We believed a lot in Borgen (the Danish series in which a minority party reached the presidency by surprise) and we practiced little Borgen.

What does it mean?

Don't give a loaded gun to a guy until you're sure he's a legit man.
Are you referring to Alfonso Fernández Mañueco?

We should have obtained at least one of the presidencies. I am a mus player, the cards of 2019 were better than they are now. But we have to play them. You have to learn from mistakes.

Are you afraid that it will happen like in Madrid, where almost all the votes of Citizens went to the hands of Isabel Díaz Ayuso?

This has nothing to do with Madrid. And Mañueco is not Ayuso. He does nothing without asking. He would not have thought to do this. When he disguises himself as her, it seems like a laugh. One cannot become a daring aerialist overnight.

What do you plan to do so that the same does not happen?

We are going to focus the campaign on Castilla y León. In Madrid it was "sanchismo or freedom." Don't tell me jokes! Here Sánchez does not appear, and as an anti-sanchista I take three heads out of Mañueco.

But it is difficult that this call is not read as a preview of what may happen in the generals ...

I am not going to answer on national political questions. They are regional elections. The citizens are already very tired. It is humiliating what is being done. It is an insult. Then they are surprised that emptied Spain emerges. It is Mañueco who encourages the emergence of this type of party.

What is he referring to?

He summons the service of an interest that is not that of his community. You cannot use Castilla y León as a doormat for a man to pass by. This is not a stepping stone. It is a community with many problems.

What are those problems?

Here there are chronic problems of spatial planning, depo[CENSORED]tion, and the industrial model. Or of clientelism, after thirty years ruling them, that we were beginning to dismantle. We are going to talk about the problems of the community from the experience of having been in office for two years. We introduce ourselves from the government.

Now they are out, how are they going to vindicate their management in the coalition government?

Let's say what we have done: we lead the rankings of all the autonomous communities in transparency. We have managed the health crisis well from the Ministry of Health, facing the reform of primary care. Employment: our unemployment rates have fallen much more than the average. There is a community on the other side of Guadarrama that boasts economic data in the pandemic because "we are the land of freedom and we put more reeds than anyone else." But if one goes to the numbers, it turns out that Madrid's GDP has fallen much more than Castilla y León. That is what we are going to talk about.

But these achievements can be capitalized by the PP, how are they going to make them their own?

Making visible that we have led political action, despite having been a minority party, and that we have done so successfully. We have served as spokesperson throughout the crisis, we have managed Healthcare in the hardest part of the pandemic and we have carried out the regeneration and political agenda.

I insist ...

We start from a complicated place. We are not delusional about the situation. I am not naive in this business. I know where we are. But I also know what our strength is. There is one thing that is very difficult to win, and that is credibility, which in politics is the intangible good with the highest price. We are going to play our cards and we have a chance of having a good result. And a good result is to decide.

What if you had to decide again between the socialist candidate, Luis Tudanca, or the po[CENSORED]r Mañueco?

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