The national council of Units per Avançar, the formation led by former Minister of the Interior Ramon Espadaler, has endorsed renewing the alliance with Salvador Illa’s PSC to compete in the Catalan elections on May 12. This is, therefore, the third consecutive time that both parties have run jointly in elections for the Catalan Chamber, since Miquel Iceta, the previous first secretary of the Catalan socialists, signed this alliance for the first time in November 2017.
The decision of the Units management body has unanimously decided to reissue this agreement unanimously in an extraordinary meeting, after positively assessing the work carried out in Parliament during the current legislature and confirming the need to close ranks with the candidacy led by Illa , “the only option capable of overcoming the process and opening a new stage in Catalonia”, according to Espadaler.
The leader of the heir party of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya has highlighted “the need to work for an integrative Catalanism”, which “understands the nation as an area of ??coexistence, which guides politics towards the search for well-being and which takes care of the essential policies of the welfare state, respecting the free initiative of individuals and families,” he indicated.
For Espadaler, the 12-M elections represent an opportunity to “overcome the fracture that the process has represented and return concrete things to politics, making it useful to the interests and needs of the people.” In his opinion, what What is at stake in these elections is “returning to the beginning of the process or looking to the future, opening a new stage presided over by social cohesion.”
In this sense, the general secretary of Units has highlighted the “failures” of the independence governments in matters of education, health, housing or security which, in line with what the PSC preaches before this electoral event, “constitute the main challenges of the next legislature.”
