Eduard Pujol is emerging as number three on the Junts per Catalunya list for the Congress of Deputies in the general elections on July 23, according to what La Vanguardia has learned, in the candidacy headed by the leader of the formation in Madrid, Míriam Nogueras.
The journalist had already been a JxCat deputy in Parliament in the legislature after the 1-O referendum and had served as a spokesman in the Catalan Chamber.
He came to the post-convergent group as an independent, joined Junts when it was founded as a party in August 2020 and at the end of the legislature he was expelled and was not a candidate in the 2021 elections after the leadership decided to suspend him from militancy due to allegations of sexual harassment of two militants that were never formalized before the judge.
On October 26, 2020, he was removed and he himself submitted his resignation, forced by the party leadership. After that, Pujol decided to file a complaint against the two JxCat affiliates and was reinstated a few months later, in June 2021. The judge concluded that he was falsely accused of harassment.
Since then there had been speculation about the possibility of including him on the Junts list in the general elections to try to restore him, since returning his position in Parliament was impossible. During this last year, the 8TV program El Fax was presented.
“There are things that are difficult to restore. He has not been part of the lists, we cannot return those functions of deputy to him. That is already irreversible, but in conversations with him we will work so that he is restored to the maximum,” said Jordi Sànchez, then secretary general of JxCat, when it was restored to him.
Some media, such as El Nacional, had placed him as number five or six on the list, but consulted sources place him as number three, a position that, barring a debacle, will grant a seat to the also former director of RAC1.
On the other hand, professor Joan Queralt, socialite and collaborator of various media, will be the ERC candidate for the Senate. A news that adds to the incorporation of the journalist Francesc Marc Álvaro as number three of the republicans in the list of the Lower House.
