ERC is certainly going through the municipal elections subsequent Sunday, the twenty eighth, as a duel with the PSC to change into essentially the most voted occasion in Catalonia, with Junts because the third actor.
This Saturday, the occasion that presides over the Generalitat held its central marketing campaign occasion for the native elections in Cornellà de Llobregat, one of many everlasting socialist fiefdoms within the metropolitan space of Barcelona, and criticism of an “motionless” PSC was the widespread component in all of the speeches.
Esquerra, instantly, has been conjured as much as “break with the regimes” of the PSC within the giant metropolitan cities and forestall its return to the mayor’s workplace within the capital.
“For a few years the identical individuals have all the time ruled Cornellà with very giant majorities they usually act as if town have been theirs”, denounced the republican mayoral candidate within the metropolis, Raquel Albiol.
“There is no such thing as a proper that the PSOE has turned our cities into different farmhouses”, Rufián.
For his half, the deputy in Congress and candidate in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Gabriel Rufián, has gone additional and proclaimed: “There is no such thing as a proper for the PSOE to have turned our cities into different farmhouses, sufficient of the masters, whoever is bored with farmhouses and masters, vote republican”.
Criticism of the socialists for the appalling administration of the Rodalies Renfe service and their mannequin of improvement within the purple belt of Barcelona – principally based mostly on bricks – was additionally fixed on the occasion, which was additionally attended by the occasion’s president, Oriol Junqueras; the secretary common, Marta Rovira; the president of the Authorities, Pere Aragonès, and the mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, amongst others.
In reality, there was a big presence of ministers of the Generalitat, in a transparent signal of the ultimate dash that ERC intends to make to beat polls that, to this point, will not be significantly beneficial to it, particularly within the capital.
A selection between “immobility” and “transformation
Aragonès has positioned 28-M as a call between two choices: “the immobility that the PSC represents or the republican transformation that we symbolize” or, in different phrases, “that the identical previous issues proceed to occur, as a result of the identical previous persons are in cost or that new issues occur”.
“For 40 years these immobilists have thought that the nation is theirs”, Pere Aragonès
The President of the Authorities has additionally inspired the concern of a doable socio-vergence that would happen in Barcelona – the PSC and Junts candidates, Jaume Collboni and Xavier Trias, respectively, don’t deny it -, additionally branding the occasion of Laura Borràs, Jordi Turull and Carles Puigdemont as “motionless”: “For 40 years these motionless individuals have thought that the nation is theirs”.
The occasion’s chief, Oriol Junqueras, has boasted in regards to the administration of the federal government – which Aragonès had additionally completed – and proclaimed that ERC is the one one which all the time stands as much as “this formidable conservative coalition that has so many sources and so many means”, in reference to PSC and Junts.
He additionally appealed to the nationwide query, assuring that “everybody is aware of that when the poll bins are put up once more for independence, we’ll put them up”.
“Any pro-independence vote within the metropolitan space that doesn’t go to ERC is a wasted vote”, Junqueras mentioned.
On this sense, he added that they know that “to carry a referendum and to make the republic is way simpler” if they’ve the city councils in favour. “That’s the reason it is necessary that Ernest Maragall has the mayor’s workplace in Barcelona and we wish to win in l’Hospitalet, Badalona and Terrassa,” he added.
Junqueras concluded by saying that “any pro-independence vote within the metropolitan space that doesn’t go to ERC is a wasted vote”, because it endorses “the regime”.
Rufián: “We’re liable for the PSOE’s rectifications”.
Rufián, who acknowledged the problem of his assault on the mayoralty of Santa Coloma de Gramanet, recalled that, in the mean time, Núria Parlon’s PSC has 17 councillors, whereas ERC solely has three.
He additionally identified that the mayoress of town and the mayor of Cornellà, Antonio Balmón, have in widespread “that they’ve received a lot that they imagine that Cornellà and Santa Coloma are theirs and they don’t have in mind the individuals, their day-to-day life and their lives”.
Other than calling for a “break with the regimes” that the PSC has inbuilt a big a part of the metropolitan space for many years, Rufián additionally made a plea for negotiation with the PSOE authorities, as a result of this has allowed legal guidelines to be handed that enhance individuals’s lives: “we’re not liable for the PSOE’s selections, we’re liable for their rectifications”, he concluded.
The ERC candidate for Mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall throughout a marketing campaign occasion on the Fira de Cornellà, 20 Might 2023, in Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona. – Kike Rincón / Europa Press
Lastly, the mayoral candidate of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, has additionally centered his criticism above all on the PSC, which he has attacked for the administration of Rodalies and for eager to change into mayor of Barcelona “by any means vital”.
Maragall appealed to Trias “to not give in” and to not make a mayoralty with Collboni doable.
“On 28 March it’s at stake whether or not Barcelona is an impartial political topic, whether or not it could actually and desires to have a robust and free public management”, he careworn, to attraction on to the Junts candidate, Xavier Trias, in order that “he doesn’t give in” and doesn’t make a mayoralty with Collboni doable, which might make him the “vital confederate of a state operation”.
“In Barcelona the chance known as Collboni, with the crutch of Trias, or the zero sum of Colau and Collboni, whereas the hope known as ERC”, Maragall proclaimed.