Ara in English - Carlos Carrizosa

Ciudadanos returns, but to the courts: it rears its ugly head in Spain's two biggest scandals

Roger Palós — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:00:42 +0000

Outside the institutions after a free fall that has liquidated the formationCiudadanos is once again making its appearance outside the parliamentary system. The party has made a bid for the courts and has appeared as a private prosecutor in the two main cases surrounding Spanish politics: the Cerdán case of alleged corruption by the PSOE and the Spanish government, and the case regarding the management of the DANA (National Anti-Terrorist Project) in the Valencian Community. These are carefully calculated moves that have catapulted it back into the spotlight. the former leader in Catalonia Carlos CarrizosaNow as a lawyer, although only to bring charges against the Koldo plot. national", on "serious issues". They also see that they have "more freedom to do and undo" than the rest of the parties and accusations because they do not have "the burden of political pacts", since they are not in the institutions.

Arrimadas, Rivera, or Carrizosa... where are the former glories of Ciudadanos now?

Martina Alcobendas — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:00:19 +0000

In 2017, Ciutadans rubbed the sky in Catalonia: with 36 deputies, it became the first force in the Parliament and was gaining momentum for the definitive assault on Congress in the 2019 elections. It would be the blow to the repeat election seven months later: the formation went from 57 seats to 10. The party would then fall into a spiral of internal fights and a loss of leadership (with a hostile takeover bid by the PP (including) that have led to the practical disappearance of the institutions. But what has become of the former glories of the orange party?

14-F gives Aragonès the presidency despite PSC victory

Laura Serra — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:08:16 +0000

The PSC has won the elections to the Catalan Parliament with more than 625,000 votes, but has tied at 33 seats with ERC, which collects more than 580,000 votes. The socialists' result is well above the 17 seats they had in 2017. The Salvador Illa operation has worked and has capitalised on the non-independence vote under the PSC umbrella, because the socialists have recovered 16 seats, especially in the metropolitan area, cities where Ciudadanos had won in the last elections. The latter, who were victorious in the 2017 elections, are shrunken on the map: they get only 6 seats, 30 less than in 2017. The setback is unprecedented: Cs has gone from first to seventh force in the hemicycle.