Inés became interested in
Citizens in 2010 and the following year she became the party's youth spokesperson.
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Arrimadas was elected a member of the
Parliament of Catalonia in the
2012 Catalan regional election. She became the Leader of
Citizens in Catalonia and
Leader of the Opposition in the Catalan Parliament in 2015 at the age of 34.
She led the party into the
2015 Catalan regional election. It won 17.9% of the vote and went from 9 to 25 seats, becoming the largest
unionist party in the Parliament.
The party under Arrimadas secured the most seats in the
2017 election, however
pro-independence parties retained a narrow majority of seats in the
Parliament of Catalonia.
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