“I come from a 50 meter floor with aluminosis and walking between syringes filled with heroin and blood in the background neighborhoodfrom being cold in my grandmother’s apartment in singuelínto wear clothes borrowed by my cousins, to see friends sniff glue and my mother sew for 10 hours in a clandestine workshop for the rich of Barcelona”. With this speech about its origins, Gabriel Rufian has claimed as mayor of the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet at the launch of his new challenge. Knowing that there are those who have hung the label of parachutist in a city under the unwavering baton of the PSC, ERC has thus given the starting signal to the Republicans’ strategy of focusing the 2023 municipal elections in a melee with the match Salvador Island.
The choice by Oriol Junqueras of his referent in Congress to stand up to one of the great bastions of the PSC is quite a declaration of intent: it makes visible how the goal is to get all his artillery to win more support in Comanche territories and consolidate itself as, at least, the second party in large cities in the metropolitan area, where it already experienced growth in the 2019 elections. Not in vain, the common thread of the Republicans this Sunday has been invite independence supporters and non-independence supporters to vote for them. “The time has come for CKD. We are running to be the host place of those who love justice, freedom, democracy and republicanism”, Junqueras proclaimed.
Rufián is a leader known by the general public and with insight into the Spanish-speaking electorate and the two ERC victories in the 2019 generals weigh on his record. Junqueras has made it clear that he will not leave Congress, Rufián’s condition to accept a role that was entrusted to him by the party leadership. What they are looking for is grow left and transcending the merely pro-independence debate with the flag of republicanism and take advantage of the vein of what Rufián represents to try erode the great nursery of votes socialist. “It doesn’t matter what your language or your flag is, if you share values such as freedom and republicanism, you are one of us“, Said the leader, resurrecting one of his great slogans from his last campaigns.
Tardà and the “broad road”
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The former ERC leader in Congress Joan Tardafrom Cornellà de Llobregat, who has sponsored the candidacy, has summed up that the objective of the party is to be ‘pal de paller’ of the “construction of the republic” from the left and republicanism “in the same way that Pujolism” was in its day of nationalism. The way to achieve it, he has insisted, is to trace a “broad road”, without “dogmatism or sectarianism” in order to attract the vote of the popular classes. On the contrary, Tardà has dropped, which is what the “founders of the Bourbon regime, who are now trying to besiege the Government” are looking for to bring down to Pere Aragonès. A message addressed to Junts and the PSC.
in Santa Coloma, Nuria Parlon It has held the mayor’s office for 13 years and governs with an absolute majority – it has 17 of the 27 councillors. ERC, which in the last municipal councils won 3 councilors without previously having representation, admits how difficult it will be to obtain a good result in places like this one and in others such as Hospitalet or Cornellà de Llobregat, where Nuria Marin Y Antonio Balmon They also govern with an absolute majority, but they assure that their aspiration is to gain a foothold in order to be influential in those municipalities. “Let them depend on us”, maintain the strategists of the Calabria street headquarters.