Esquerra has been the first to denounce Pedro Sánchez before the Central Electoral Board (JEC) (later Citizens and the PP have added to the reproach) for allegedly making electoral use of his five days of reflection and the decision made. this Monday morning to continue leading the Government. The same accusation applies to the CIS survey and the interview on RTVE at night, in prime time, with Sánchez.
But ERC has also taken advantage of the situation and has seen the perfect opportunity to push forward in the campaign. They see in the text of the denunciation, in itself, a good support point to get started in the campaign. Specifically, those of Pere Aragonès consider that the outcome has not helped Salvador Illa and the PSC, but quite the opposite, in the race towards the May 12 elections. ERC has breathed optimism this Monday. Who knows if it’s enough to compensate for the polls, which for weeks have placed the party third.
The complaint is still the translation of everything that Pere Aragonès has verbalized today. In the morning in Barcelona and in the afternoon in Girona, where ERC has stopped for its campaign event. In this last city, the Republican candidate in the Catalan elections of May 12 has stated that “Sánchez has served a circus on a plate to the extreme right.” “It has been a comedy, a pantomime, that has used the feeling of solidarity and empathy in the face of any attack from the extreme right to put them at the service of a political spectacle that is very far from our way of doing things,” he lamented.
For the Republican, Sánchez has sought to “strengthen his ego” and cover up, as he said, “the corruption of the Koldo case and the lack of proposals from Salvador Illa.” “Not everything goes in politics,” the president of the Generalitat has claimed.
It was in Girona where ERC’s optimism shone through. The act was of a small format, but there was effusiveness among the attendees. More than usual. Almost everything has been applauded. The interventions have also overflowed with effusiveness, especially those of the deputy in Congress Teresa Jordà and that of the president of the Generalitat himself. They were accompanied by councilor Quim Nadal, the number one in Girona, Laia Cañigueral, from Geneva the deputy general secretary, Marta Rovira, and the deputy of EH Bildu Jon Iñarritu.
The push came from the outcome of Sánchez’s non-resignation and Aragonès’s midday press conference. No reproaches were left in the pipeline. Or almost. He accused the socialist leader of making a “comedy”, of “overacting”, of spreading a “smokescreen” and of designing an “electoral act” with the entire five-day journey and his decision.
There has also been time to talk about Junts. Girona is favorable territory for post-convergents. Jordà has disgraced Carles Puigdemont for not signing the anti-fascist pact promoted by ERC, the Commons and the CUP. “In the face of the extreme right there are those who take a profile,” Nadal rebuked. And Cañigueral has called for putting an end to “personal egos.” An ambivalent message, since it was also addressed to Sánchez.
