Junts will join the alternative agreement in Ripoll with Esquerra Republicana, PSC and the CUP to prevent the local far-right independentist formation Aliança Catalana, led by SÃlvia Orriols, from governing the Girona town for the next four years.
The decision implies a full-fledged disavowal of the president of the formation, Laura Borrà s, who yesterday stated that she was not “in favor” of her party agreeing with the rest of the forces to prevent Orriols from becoming mayoress, statements that have fueled strong criticism from the ERC and other parties in the Catalan parliamentary arc. In the meeting of the leadership, the majority of the party has positioned itself against the opinion of the leader.
This morning, Borrà s’ successor in Parliament, Anna Erra, was not very clear when referring to the controversy and defended giving “municipal autonomy” to the Junts en Ripoll group to decide whether or not to allow the Catalan Alliance to govern in the municipality However, in the meeting of the executive, what was expressed by Borrà s this weekend has been corrected. “The position of Junts in this sense is unquestionable. It is what has come out of the party’s executive”, said MÃriam Nogueras, leader of the formation in Madrid and candidate of JxCat in the general elections of July 23.
The post-convergent leader has also stated that they have always been in favor of a “sanitary cordon against the extreme right”.
