The journalist and writer Francesc-Marc Álvaro will be number three on the ERC list in Barcelona for the Congress. Pending his 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 times since Oriol Junqueras took the lead. Her name is added to that of Teresa Jordà, who will be number two once she has already left the Department of Climate Action, and with which the Republicans have wanted to highlight the party’s pro-independence profile. 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 de una revuelta (ed. Galaxia Gutenberg) or Ara si que toca! , with the subtitle El pujolisme, the sovereignist process and the Pujol case (ed. Pórtic)
The journalist was polled by ERC a little before the municipal elections. He joins Esquerra at a time when the formation views his future with some concern. The most immediate, in Madrid.
Falling behind the post-convergent formation, this time in Congress, could mean a new blow for those from Junqueras. Especially after a remodeling in the Government, with the change of three ministers, which is precisely what he is looking for to act as a revulsion, something that the “common, democratic and sovereign front” proposed by the president of the Generalitat has not achieved. Now, in addition, this idea is dead after the succession of pacts in town halls between the Junts and the PSC, and the agreements between Republicans and Socialists so that ERC presides over the Lleida and Tarragona councils.
ERC has also named its number one in Tarragona, Girona and Lleida. They will be Jordi Salvador, Montse Bassa and Inés Granollers, respectively.
