Esquerra believes that it has found a weak point in Junts where to soak bread. The post-convergents have practically mortgaged their national project to a municipal candidacy such as that of Xavier Trias, their mayor for Barcelona, ​​who, in addition to relegating the name of the party, according to the republicans, avoids the goal of independence. So yesterday, at the central ERC campaign event, in Cornellà de Llobregat, Oriol Junqueras kicked this Achilles tendon several times. Who knows if the most painful was the following: “Only we preserve the idea of ​​independence (…), only we force them to move [to Junts and formerly CDC] and say that they are also independenceists, although their head of list in Barcelona say that Convergència is back”.
Or this one: “Any pro-independence vote that does not go to ERC in the metropolitan area is a wasted vote and endorses the regime most contrary to the hopes of the people of this country.” Another: “Everyone knows that we will be the ones who will put ballot boxes again for independence”.
The fact is that the national axis, in this campaign for the municipal elections of May 28, had almost not raised its head at all. At least as a guiding thread. That independence has little market share is demonstrated by a very concrete fact: the ANC is in the midst of a general assembly to renew its roadmap and the media coverage is minimal compared to previous years.
There are no stars in the main ERC campaign events. But yesterday, in Cornellà , the first cries of independence were heard and in the formation they consider that if the weakness of the PSC lies in the management of Rodalies by its minister, in Junts it lies in the theoretical abandonment of the goal of independence by the candidacy of Trias, in whom JxCat seems to have mortgaged its project.
Yesterday, Trias, at a campaign event in the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​made some statements that ERC saw as tangible proof of Junts’ “return” to CDC. “They say this is Convergència, so fuck you if it is Convergència!” said the mayor regarding those who criticize him for seeking the pact with the PSC.
Faced with this attitude, Oriol Junqueras maintained yesterday that Ernest Maragall, mayor of ERC in Barcelona, ​​”wants to save the capital of this country from those who are only showing up to save their party, their regime “.
“A referendum and independence are easier if we have the big cities in the country in favor. That’s why we want to win in Barcelona, ​​l’Hospitalet, Sabadell, Terrassa, Badalona”, the leader of the republicans made it clear.
Precisely yesterday, Maragall made his most intense and poignant speech. He criticized Trias and urged him to “not be an accomplice of sociovergence, with the support of the PP included”, while calling on pro-independence voters to concentrate their vote on ERC to “liberate” the city.
“Mr. Trias will not win the election; the only result it has had is to take Mrs. Colau out of rejection and loneliness and bring her back to life,” argued the Republican candidate, upset by the role of the post-convergent.
However, the target of Maragall’s attacks was more the PSC. From Cornellà , from “the capital of socialist Catalonia, the wolf’s den” – the PSC governs there with an absolute majority -, he denounced “the branchist and conservative drift” of his previous party.
He went further, Maragall. He explained that Catalan socialism “is Spanishized” and accused him of wanting “the mayorship of Barcelona in order to add it to total submission and obedience to the State and submit it to the PSOE”. “Today the risk is called [Jaume] Collboni”, he said of the candidate in Barcelona of the PSC.
Also present at the event was Pere Aragonès, who along with Oriol Junqueras made ERC the recipient of the pro-independence “useful vote”. The president of the Generalitat had both for the socialists and for JxCat. He accused them of immobilizers and of forging conservative alliances to prevent Republican governments.
The same was done by Gabriel Rufián, mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. He added more fuel to the fire when he asked the socialist voter to vote for ERC this time because “he is more Catalanist than anyone else”, and to Junts, to do it for the republicans “because they are more pro-independence than anyone else”.
Marta Rovira, secretary general of Esquerra, intervened from Geneva to touch the shell of the PSC. Of Salvador Illa’s party, he said that “they are beginning to tremble” because of the possible gain of votes for the Republicans in the metropolitan area. “Until today, the socialists of the red belt were sleeping quite peacefully, they mismanaged and began to prepare their political career to end up in a ministry”, he said especially in relation to Raquel Sánchez, Minister of Transport.
“Balmón, Parlón: Tic-tac, tic-tac”, finished Rufián referring to the socialist mayors of Cornellà and Santa Coloma” while outside the premises the Ustec demanded the resignation of the Minister of Education, Josep Gonzà lez-Cambray.
