After the election, Steel called for a full merger of the two parties.
Scholars like Frank Dobin have called for a "friendly merger" of the two approaches, proposing that the two theories should be combined in explanation.
And she said her party was yet to discuss the findings of the Williams Commission which last week called for a series of local authority mergers to cut the number of Welsh councils.
While the proposal does not call for a full merger, it is proving even more contentious as its political stakeholders represent different regions.
Local councils facing mergers have called for a "shared vision" with Welsh ministers on how to re-draw the map.
For more than a year, some analysts and pundits have called for a breakup of Citi, which was created in 1998 in the merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp.
If the tender offer does not succeed, the agreement calls for a one-step merger.
At the time, some consumer advocates called for the merger to be dissolved.
Until then the indie world, which in the past has called for the merger to be blocked outright, is apparently preparing for any outcome.
