The demobilization of the sovereignist voter was quite pronounced on May 28, especially for Esquerra Republicana. For this reason, her number two on the list of the Congress of Deputies, former Minister Teresa Jordà, tried yesterday to activate the independence movement, in an act in Vic (Osona), in the face of the “fascist threat”.
As Jordà warned, “branch parties” such as PSC or Sumar will not stop this threat that they detect, above all, say the Republicans, some socialists “without a project for Catalonia.”
Jordà recalled that “there are very few days left before the elections and it is an exceptional moment to continue calling for mobilization”, because, he said, “at stake” there are not only rights and freedoms. “We are risking our language and culture,” said the leader, who assured that her training has been self-critical after the May results.
In this way, he questioned the independentistas who did not vote in the last elections, in the municipal ones, because they are disappointed and angry, with the intention that they vote on July 23.
The ex-minister warned of the “threat of completely unapologetic neo-Francoism”, especially against a Catalonia that has “the risk of losing everything that characterizes it as a people”.
But there was also criticism of Sumar, whom ERC closely monitors in this campaign given the risk of losing votes to Yolanda Díaz. Jordà referred to the “supposedly progressive left” which in this campaign has veered “without a complex” to the right. In this sense, he accused Sumar of “questioning” “combative” feminism and, on the other hand, of “removing the referendum from his ideology.” Regarding the PSOE, he pointed out that “every time it wants to look more like the PP.” To the parties “called Catalan, but subsidiaries” such as PSC and common, he made ugly that “they are always on the wrong side of the table” when it comes to defending the Catalans. “It has been shown that the PSC has no project for Catalonia and that the only ones who can defend the Catalans are Esquerra.”
With all these ingredients, Jordà asked the Catalans to vote pro-independence in these elections, because PP and Vox “know perfectly well who their enemies are, the pro-independence left”.
The leader admitted that there are many “demobilized and disillusioned” pro-independence voters, but she demanded that they make an effort in these elections to “win at the polls”. “It is sad that the threat of neo-Francoism is what makes us mobilize. But that’s how it is. We must do it because we are risking everything ”, she confirmed. “ERC’s enemies are not the independentistas. We are very clear about the enemy: fascism and the regime of 78. We are not going to steal pro-independence votes, obviously we want all the pro-independence votes to be accumulated by the ERC, but any vote for Junts and CUP is welcome to confront fascism”, Jorda finished off.
