Quarrel between Comuns Sumar and Aliança Catalana regarding a visit by the Comuns to Ripoll, where the far-right party headed by Sílvia Orriols holds the mayor’s office. “A group of individuals linked to the Comuns party have been identified and reported for covering up Aliança Catalana posters,” the mayor posted this Tuesday on the social network get away with it? In Ripoll we look after the electoral rights of all,” Orriols added.
“Yes, today we were in Ripoll to denounce the extreme right neither in Catalan nor in Spanish,” responded the head of the common list in Girona, Eloi Badia. “Ílvia Orriols has sent the local Ripoll police to identify us for hanging posters against the extreme right and holding a press conference,” added the number 3 of Comuns Sumar in Barcelona, ??Andrés García Berrio.
Badia, García Berrio, the deputy in Congress Júlia Boada, the number two for Girona Anna Portillo and the migration coordinator of Sumar, Viviane Ogou, have visited Ripoll. Accompanied by sympathizers and party activists, they have hung posters under the slogan ‘Extreme right: neither in Catalan, nor in Spanish’, the community members have reported in a press release.
According to Comuns Sumar, in this electoral campaign for the Catalan elections they are playing for a seat in Girona precisely with Aliança Catalana, which could be important in their electoral future. In fact, for days they have been polarizing with this formation and VOX, emphasizing that we must “go on the offensive” against the extreme right.
In a press conference from Ripoll, Badia said that “it is not necessary to look outside the house to look for the extreme right because we have it here, it speaks Catalan and behind an image of a sheep a snake hides.” “Preventing the right to register is hate, preventing access to health is hate and depriving access to housing is hate,” said the former councilor at Barcelona City Council.
According to García Berrio, “the best response to the reactionary offensive is to respond with more rights.” “All people residing in Catalonia have the right to register and we will work from the Generalitat to detect and sanction possible discriminatory actions,” he added.
Ogou has said that Comuns Sumar defends a “Catalonia of inclusion.” “Aliança Catalana and VOX are two sides of the same coin, Orriols and Garriga are first cousins,” he concluded.
