The leading duo Oriol Junqueras-Marta Rovira announces that she will run for her third re-election
ERC will advance its national congress, initially scheduled for 2023, in the fall of this year, in a process that will start in November with a vote to “renew and strengthen” the Republican leadership, where Oriol Junqueras and Marta Rovira will present themselves together again to lead the party. Once the party’s national council formally approves it on September 17, a congressional process marked by two key moments will begin: on November 6, with the vote to renew the party leadership; and, in early 2023, a plenary session to update the strategic documents.
This was announced by the party leader, Oriol Junqueras, and the general secretary, Marta Rovira, in a joint letter to the militancy in which they show their commitment to present themselves again to continue leading the organization and in which they argue the progress of the congress to “strengthen” the party in the face of new challenges and “do it with a management that combines experience and consolidated leadership with the necessary renovation”.
In the letter, Junqueras and Rovira assure that the next political year “will be marked by many social, economic and national challenges” that the party wants to face “strengthened”. Among these challenges, the leaders point to the economic crisis stemming from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, but also municipal electionss and the negotiation with the central government to “resolve once and for all and democratically the political conflict.
Junqueras and Rovira communicate their desire to lead again an “integral” candidacy to “give continuity to the open, transformed and exciting project” and exhibit their commitment that this new management “combines experience and consolidated leadership” together with “the necessary updating in the face of current challenges”.
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And they also mark what the two axes of action should be: on the one hand, to reaffirm the party as “useful tool” from the institutions; but also the “strategic bet to build the Catalan republic, which goes through amnesty and self-determination”.
The process will take place during half-year and it will have territorial and sectoral debates so that the militancy contributes, the two leaders point out, to making the ERC “an organization as strong and prepared as possible to serve this society.