Beyond the parties with parliamentary representation, two relatively new formations, both pro-independence, closed their electoral campaign yesterday with opposite expectations, according to the polls published until last Monday: the far-right Aliança Catalana, led by the mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, and Alhora, with the former councilor and current MEP for Junts, Clara Ponsatí, and the philosopher Jordi Graupera, at the helm. They are unique cases due to the repercussion that 12-M will have, whether or not they enter the Catalan Chamber, due to the electoral support that they may take away from the rest of the pro-independence formations.
Aliança Catalana closed the campaign yesterday in Ripoll in the middle of the festival – today is the day of the patron saint of Sant Eudald – of the Girona municipality, the cradle of the formation in 2020 when Orriols created it when he was councilor of the Front Nacional.
With an openly xenophobic and Islamophobic speech, linking immigration with crime and the loss of social aid for non-migrants, Orriols came to preside over the council and now, according to surveys, he has real options of entering the Parliament with up to four deputies.
If it finally obtains them, these will be seats that should not serve to form majorities, since PSC, ERC, Junts, Comuns Sumar and the CUP signed a manifesto this week in which they committed not to agree with the extreme right, in which included both the Orriols party and Vox.
On the other hand, no survey predicts the entry into the Parliament of Alhora, the independence party that emerged days before the electoral call. And time has revealed itself as the main enemy of a candidacy that, with a microphone in the hands of its two main candidates, has traveled to different parts of the Catalan geography trying to convince, in small street events, the independence electorate disillusioned with the process. that independence is possible. As? Taking control of public order and mobilizing 10% of the Catalan population for a few months, in the words of Graupera.
Its program is based on six main axes: a shock plan for Catalan, a change in the economic model, an energy and environmental revolution, a new electoral law, new leadership and good government, and the revolt for independence.
Two opposite expectations but with the same victim: an unlikely pro-independence majority.
