Toni Comín will be the Junts per Catalunya candidate in the European elections next June. The former Health Minister, MEP in the legislature that is now expiring, will head the list of the post-convergent formation after Carles Puigdemont resigned from running in the European elections on June 9 to focus on the Catalan electoral contest.
The initial forecast at Junts was that the former Catalan president would once again lead the post-convergent candidacy, as he did in 2019. However, the Catalan electoral advance precipitated a change of plans and the leader of JxCat has put all his effort into the elections. elections to the Parliament on May 12.
In the primary process, for which the former councilor and MEP has had the support of the former Catalan president, Comín has won with 77% of the votes over Joan Josep Florensa, president of the local group of Junts in Gandesa (Terra Alta ), who has added 9% of the support.
In statements to RAC1, Puigdemont said yesterday that he would “love” for Comín to repeat as an MEP because “he has done an exceptional job” in this legislature and because he already knows the mechanics of community politics.
In the 2019 European elections, Junts was the most voted force in Catalonia and obtained two seats, which in the end, after Brexit, were three. Puigdemont and Comín were joined by former councilor Clara Ponsatí, who now heads another political project, Alhora, together with the philosopher Jordi Graupera and the writer Anna Punsoda.
Comín, who had been in the PSC and in the current Ciutadans pel Canvi with Pasqual Maragall, was head of Salut in the Catalan executive chaired by Puigdemont, although as councilor of Esquerra. In 2019 he was a JxCat candidate alongside the former president, with whom he had resided in Belgium since 2017.
