From the Eixamplefrom the district that can score a victory or a defeat due to its population weight, the ‘president’ of the Generalitat and also the national coordinator of ERC, Pere Aragoneshas brought out all the artillery to try to propel a Ernest Maragall that falters in the polls. And he has done it by focusing especially on Junts and his candidate, Xavier Trias. “The Barcelona government it can’t be another piece to try to revive one old convergence with name changes whose project from the past did not serve to move the country forward,” he blurted out.
If he speaks of “one more piece” it is because he considers that there are others, a veiled reference to the Barcelona Provincial Councilwhere the pact between socialists and post-convergents particularly stung the Republicans and which has been shown robust during this tenure. The Republican mayor Ernest Maragallhas rowed in the same direction waving the ghost of a “sociovergence” that seeks to break through to return to power “to the usual“and that, in the words of number two of the candidacy, Elisenda Alamanyall they want is “sell Barcelona to the highest bidder”. “Mr. Trias has already decided to surrender the city Spanish conservative socialism, Sánchez and the president of the Provincial Council, Nuria Marin“, has warned.
However, the catapult that ERC needs to aspire to the podium is so great that the game also turns into melee with the Comuns and with the PSC. Aragonès has warned that the government of Barcelona, like that of the Generalitat, cannot be “neither a Madrid branch nor a market branch”, but the objective has to be “to return sovereignty to the citizens”. Something that, in his opinion, is easier if in the two balconies of Sant Jaume square Republicans govern with an alliance and a “shared” project.
The ‘president’ has also dispatched against Comuns and socialists especially for two issues: the access to housing and Rodalies, which he has defined as the two main problems suffered by the people of Barcelona. On the first of the issues, he has puffed up his chest 10,000 social housing that the Government has promised to promote this year, having opened the path of expropriation of flats of large holders and of having drafted the rent regulation law that the Government of Pedro Sánchez “has copied”. For Aragones, the “good intentions” by Colau They have not resulted in changes in this matter.
“It is the risk when get to the mayor’s office betraying your own principles and denying what you had said in the campaign at the hands of those whose sole objective was to prevent a pro-independence mayor. Thus, things can only go wrong for you”, he reproached the leader of the Comuns, recalling how she took the mayor’s office from Maragall four years ago. And about Rodalies, a great ‘hit’ in this campaign for the Republicans after the breakdown of the R2 in Gavà, has defined the Generalitat as the administration “of the trains that run” while the socialists are “the party of Renfe and of the trains that are late and with incidents”. The responsibilities of the chaos in the Catalan railway network, he pointed out, have “names and surnames” in the ranks of the PSC.
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The Eixample is flagship for ERC and a territory where the sovereignist vote is disputed. The Republicans won here four years ago, and the Commons have worked hard to bring this term back to purple like they did in 2015. However, any party hoping to win is forced to be competitive in the district where the vote is at stake. of 270,000 residents. “We are the useful vote for independence, we do not hide the acronyms”, has claimed the ‘councillor’ of the Presidency, Laura Vilagraseeking to dissuade the vote for Junts in this enclave.
the councilor eva baro has recited the memorial of grievances that the district accumulates under the bipartisan of Comuns and the PSC: from the tourist apartment licenses, with the Tarragona street block as a paradigm, to the gentrification that causes “40%” of the residents to have to go to other areas of the city because they cannot afford the cost of housing. Also the seven years that the Escola Entença has been waiting for a definitive location, the “soap opera” of the slab of the Sant Antoni round or the noise and sleep problems of the neighbors on Enric Granados street. “This cycle is exhausted”concludes ERC.