The municipal elections of 2019 placed Esquerra as the leading force throughout Catalonia in terms of votes and councillors. 820,000 votes which translated into about 3,100 representatives who helped form 360 mayors, their record. With the bar so high, Republicans consider that a consolidation of these results would be enough to celebrate. But there are always nuances: similar numbers on May 28 without options for Ernest Maragall to lead the Barcelona City Council, without again being first in Lleida, or showing that Pau Ricomà ‘s mayoralty in Tarragona was the flower of ‘one day, it could be judged as a remarkable step back.
But the Republicans ended the campaign yesterday with ample doses of optimism, with frequent shouts of “independence” among those attending the La Paloma hall, in Barcelona. “They want to come and hammer the stake of victory, put the stake in Flanders, and there is a hidden candidate: Pedro Sánchez,” Pere Aragonès said of the Socialists very graphically yesterday. Maragall also expressed positivity: “Are you tired?, they ask me. I have no right to be tired! (…) I would do one more month of campaigning”.
ERC closed the campaign yesterday at the pace of rumba. He opened it with Oriol Junqueras making bits of the script, which said that the focus of the attacks should be the PSC. A raucous Rodalies had to favor the Republicans’ story to continue winning votes in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona with Gabriel Rufián’s face visible and stiletto. Point ways, in this area. But the president of ERC surprised even his colleagues in the party’s leadership and that day charged strongly against Junts through Xavier Trias: “He hides his name and his list is full of those who the summer of 2017 they abandoned the Government and the people of Catalonia”.
There is a reason for this. Criticizing a Junts leaning towards Convergència, with Trias as standard, is an indirect way of attracting the left-wing socialist voter who suffers from hives at the memory of CDC.
ERC has carried out one of its most intense campaigns. She is very proud of Door to Door. According to reports, they have knocked on 550,000 doors in 320 municipalities. Aragonès assessed it: “While we were discovering a vote-buying scandal (…), we brought the decisions to the people’s homes. It’s up to us to respond to them.”
