In a campaign in which Pere Aragonès has criticized Junts day after day and left and right, this Thursday, at the Congress Palace in Barcelona, ??was the first time that Esquerra has clearly appealed to independence unity. It has come from the hand of Marta Rovira, general secretary of the Republicans, and on the first occasion that she has spoken live from Switzerland during the electoral race. The Catalan capital has also been the scene of the appeal to the Catalan vote, especially to those who, according to the president, had traditionally opted for the PSC.
“Let no Catalan vote go to the PSC,” claimed the ERC candidate. A PSC that has been judged “the most Spanishist in history.” He has not been satisfied with this vote pool. He has also requested the trust of the entire independence movement and the left-wing and progressive electorate, as Marta Vilalta, head of the Republican list for Lleida, had previously requested, in her speech alongside the numbers one of Girona and Tarragona, Laia Cañigueral and Raquel. Sans, respectively.
Shortly before, Rovira had launched another proclamation: “We want to rebuild trust” with the independence movement. The leader believes that the near approval of the Amnesty law has to help with this.
Aragonès has stuck to his script. He has once again compared Salvador Illa with Inés Arrimadas, and accused the PSC of having replaced the C for Catalunya in its acronym with the C for Ciudadanos. And he has attacked Junts for stating that the Government lacks leadership. The Republican leader has used the contradictions he perceives in the post-convergents when, for example, “in the morning Pugdemont says that Hard Rock is not his model and in the afternoon number three, Josep Rull, says that Hard Rock is family tourism.”
ERC held its most massive event this Thursday. It had a few ingredients: about 2,000 people who applauded almost everything incessantly, sometimes shouting “president”, “freedom” and “independence”, or the participation of the head of the EH Bildu list in the Basque elections, Pello Otxandiano. Aragonès showed muscle when he loudly extolled his Government work with all of his councilors on stage. On May 12 they will compare biceps with the other contenders.
It sounded like a tribute to the Government. Even more so when Tomàs Molina, the meteorologist who has signed up for the ERC list for the European elections, entrusted himself to Moreneta for the next electoral contests.
The Congress Palace was also testimony to the most exultant Oriol Junqueras. He appealed to self-love. He did so by confirming and saying that every time ERC has won an election “the polls swore and perjured” that they would not win.
