Journalist and writer Francesc-Marc Álvaro will be number three on the ERC list in Barcelona for the Congress. Pending validation by the party executive, Álvaro will appear as an independent. With his signing, the party incorporates a profile from civil and independent society, as Esquerra has done so many other times since Oriol Junqueras took the baton. His name is added to that of Teresa Jordà, who will be number two once she has already left the Ministry of Climate Action, and with whom the republicans wanted to emphasize the pro-independence profile of the party. Gabriel Rufián was anointed as head of the list by Oriol Junqueras the day after the municipal elections.
Born in Vilanova i la Geltrú in 1967, Álvaro has an extensive career in the world of communication. He holds a degree in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Bellaterra. He has collaborated with La Vanguardia since 2000 and works as a professor of Journalism at the Blanquerna faculty of the Ramon Llull University. In addition, he is head of the editorial board of Serra d’Or magazine. Among other awards, he has obtained the National Journalism Award in 1994, the Recull Award, the Serra i Moret Award, and the Ibáñez Escofet Award. He is the author of Essay general d’una revolta (ed. Proa) or Ara sí que toca! , with the subtitle El pujolisme, the sovereign process and the Pujol case (ed. Pòrtic).
The journalist was polled by ERC a little before the municipal elections. He joins Esquerra at a time when the formation sees its future with some concern. The most immediate, in Madrid.
Being at the back of the post-convergent formation, this time in Congress, could represent a new blow for Junqueras. Especially after a reshuffle of the Government, with the change of three councillors, that what he is looking for is precisely to be disruptive, something that the “common, democratic and sovereignist front” proposed by the president of the Generalitat has not achieved. Now, in addition, this idea remains dead after the succession of pacts in the town halls between Junts and the PSC, and the agreements between republicans and socialists for ERC to preside over the deputations of Lleida and Tarragona.
ERC has already named its numbers one in Tarragona, Girona and Lleida. They will be Jordi Salvador, Montse Bassa and Inés Granollers, respectively.
