The next ERC candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya will once again be Pere Aragonès. This will be endorsed by the ordinary national council that will hold the republican formation this Saturday. With this announcement, this Saturday, all the speculation about an alleged dispute between Pere Aragonès and Oriol Junqueras to be the number on the next list that the Republicans will make up for the next Catalan elections will end.
The information, reported by El Periódico and confirmed by La Vanguardia, confirms the public statements of the president himself, who has always expressed his willingness to run again in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia.
The future approval of the amnesty law in Congress had caused continuous speculation about an alleged fight in the party between Aragonès and Junqueras for the candidacy. However, the probable suspension of the application of the amnesty through appeals or consultations to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) already left little chance for the president of the party to attend elections that Aragonès intends, today, to call for February. Be that as it may, his candidacy is endorsed by the party leadership, and therefore, by Oriol Junqueras and Marta Rovira.
However, this Saturday’s endorsement by the national council does not imply the officialization of Aragonès’ candidacy. The party will open a primary process when the Catalan elections approach. With Junqueras out of the race, Aragonès is a candidate with every chance of winning.
“I have all the energy and all the strength to continue,” the president had proclaimed in a recent interview in La Vanguardia. In it, Aragonès expressed his repeated desire to exhaust the legislature: “I have always said that the elections will be on February 25.”
In Esquerra they have always pointed out in this sense, especially if the Parliament approves the budgets of the Generalitat for 2024. The Government is currently negotiating with the PSC, Junts, the CUP and the commons. If he managed to tie the accounts, it would be for the third consecutive time, something that has not happened since 2010, when José Montilla got the budgets approved, and 2011 and 2012, with Artur Mas.
