The Councilor for Climate Action, Teresa Jordà, will be number two in the candidacy that the Esquerra Republicana will present in Barcelona for the general elections on July 23. His incorporation to the list, along with Gabriel Rufián, points to a possible remodeling in the Government of Pere Aragonès. Waiting for what the president of the Generalitat decides, it would be the first since Junts left the boat in October last year.

It has been the leader of ERC Oriol Junqueras who has announced the incorporation of Jordà in the candidacy. “In this election we are at stake so much that we are practically risking almost everything as a country and the defense of Catalonia,” Junqueras assured during his open speech before the press, at the national council that the party held this morning in Barcelona.

In this sense, Government sources affirm that Jordà is a key piece in the Government and of the highest confidence of the president of the Generalitat and they remark that the minister will continue in charge of her department until Aragonès “considers making the relief effective”.

Be that as it may, Junqueras has justified the coalition with EH Bildu in the Senate. According to him, both formations share “the cause of the freedom of Catalonia and Euskal Herria”. From our country, with a candidacy that we want to be open, transversal and plural”, he stressed before highlighting that for this reason they wanted to advance the announcement of Jordà‘s candidacy.

The minister was the mayor of Ripoll and a deputy in Congress from 2011 to 2018, the year in which she became the head of agriculture in the Government led by Quim Torra. For Junqueras, Jordà represents all the values ​​that Esquerra defends and that he will go to Congress with the aim of “defending democracy”, social rights and economic progress that, together with the right to self-determination in his opinion, from the State, will be denies Catalonia,

Esquerra held a national council this morning to prepare for the 2023 general elections. Previously, on Friday of last week, he held another meeting that served to analyze the poor results in the municipal elections on May 28.