The movements in the Catalan parties have not been long in coming after Pedro Sánchez’s change of script due to the punishment the PSOE received at the polls. Some have not even had time to analyze the electoral results and are already faced with having to choose a list leader for the general elections on July 23.
They will have to do it before June 21, less than a month in which they will have to take stock of the results obtained, look for new strategies for those who have suffered an electoral defeat in the municipal elections and elect a candidate, either through ‘a primary process or so to speak. They are officially back on the electoral campaign. Displaced, but campaigning.
The most satisfied with yesterday’s progress were the socialists. The results have accompanied them. They are the party with the most votes and have regained victory in municipal elections such as that of 2007, while they have managed to maintain the hegemony in the metropolitan environment that Esquerra contested against them. They are in unbeatable conditions for the new appointment with the ballot boxes, perhaps with their eyes on another electoral advance for next year, that of the Catalan elections. However, Illa ruled out a possible motion of censure against the Government of Pere Aragonès.
The Socialists are maintaining the difficult negotiations to form a government in Barcelona, ​​which have complicated Jaume Collboni’s aspirations for the imminent election date. It is the only Catalan capital that the PSC lacks to complete Catalonia.
Salvador Illa yesterday praised Sánchez’s decision and described it as “courageous and deeply democratic”. Meritxell Batet is being studied as head of the list, as he already did in 2019. They consider that there is no time to hold primaries with guarantees.
Yesterday Oriol Junqueras placed Gabriel Rufián as the best candidate, despite the meager results obtained in Sant Coloma de Gramenet, where Núria Parlón has once again won the absolute majority. “The best possible candidate for the defense of Catalonia and its interests is Gabriel Rufián”, he said.
After falling to third place in the municipal elections – they lost 300,000 votes, compared to 2019 -, the Republicans had time to take stock of the electoral stumble. Junqueras, in this sense, promised to “listen” to those who have voted for them other times and this time they have abstained. The demobilization of the pro-independence vote has penalized the republicans, although yesterday, at the beginning, they ruled out that the agreements with the socialists were the reason for the chestnut at the polls.
In Junts the victory of Trias has given wings to the more moderate sector of the formation. They are the second force in Catalonia and plan to hold primaries to choose the head of the general list. Nevertheless, the tranquility of the results of the former Barcelona mayor may be an ephemeral balm and bring the different sectors of Junts back against each other, in a week when the JEC will make a final decision for the future of Laura Borrà s.
In a tweet, former president Carles Puigdemont opened the box of thrones and showed before anyone else his clear preference and trust for the current spokesperson in Congress, MÃriam Nogueras, a person of his trust. An attempt to dismantle any other candidacy that arose to contest his seat in Congress. However, it did not get the expected result. A few hours later, ex-councilor Jaume Giró announced to the party executive that he would run in the primaries to contest the position in Nogueras.
This will not be the only battle Junts will have to fight. In the Congress of Deputies, the PDECat keeps four deputies after the split with the post-convergents. At the moment, they maintain the intention to run in the general elections. They consider that, despite the bid launched by Junts in the municipalities, the results have not been entirely bad, since they have won almost 200 councilors and twelve mayors.
For the commons, the advance can be a shock to unite the confluences of the left that have collapsed in the elections. They have tied their future to that of Yolanda DÃaz and need the encouragement of unity to recover lost ground. They also don’t have a candidate, it will have to be decided in the next few days and after what ended up happening in Barcelona, ​​where they lost the mayorship, the figure of Ada Colau, who at the beginning already aspired to be deputy in Madrid
