Is there anyone left at Ciudadanos? Not even in August do the stories of party defections disappear from the newspapers and this Monday we learned that the former vice-president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, has abandoned the Cs ranks. As he himself said, he did so because of the total absence of strategy, which is a way of saying that Inés Arrimadas is leading the party to its end and that after next year's municipal elections, the party led by Albert Ribera that aspired to eat the world will no longer exist or will be so small that its role will be insignificant.
Ciudadanos was a party born with a few clear objectives: to destabilize Catalonia, provoke a linguistic war in the educational community and act as a warhorse for the repression of the independence movement. All three missions quickly found favour in Madrid's political and economic spheres but, above all, in its media and judicial worlds. Without these last two legs, everything would have been much more difficult, but the seeds sown after José María Aznar's absolute majority were ready to sprout: it was time to attack linguistic coexistence and feed the division between Catalans.
Cs did not arrive with the intention of constructing anything and that is why it has not sounded strange throughout all these years for it to have been defined as the party of hatred. Thus, it has carried out more politics in the courts (from the chambers of first instance to the National Audience, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court) and in the media (where it has never lacked a radio station, a newspaper or a television network as a loudspeaker to disseminate its anti-Catalanism) than in the parliaments, including the Parliament of Catalonia, where not even when it had more deputies than any other political formation were its numbers any use to it.
Arrimadas affirms that she has no shortage of political offers and that the easy thing would be to change the colour of her jacket. I suppose it's true, given that the absence of ideological principles allows her an easy landing in either the People's Party or Vox. She has her political CV all filled out and it won't be long before she closes the door and rolls the shutter down. Of course, the few who still remain in the party are not forcing her to resign, although many seem to be looking forward to it.