The ERC candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, along with other aspirants to the command staff from different locations in the Barcelona metropolitan region. He has presented a text that, signed by all the Republican candidates for the May 28 elections, will mean the creation of a anti-fascist commitment. The ultimate goal is to transfer the manifesto to the rest of the democratic forces so that they can sign it.
three are the reasons that move ERC to propose the compromise. You are your own identity. Born in 1931 and a leading actor in both the republic and the civil war, the anti-fascist struggle is one of those values in ERC’s DNA that they boast so much about. But, logically, there are more powerful reasons, which are practical.
On the one hand, they try to promote a kind of application of the Political VAR to the election of Ada Colau as mayor in 2019. The reason is, obviously, to prevent the favor that Manuel Valls did the mayoress from falling into oblivion. A Valls who, as French Interior Minister, once launched xenophobic speeches.
The third reason is to prevent it from happening again. Given the entry of Vox in, for example, the Barcelona consistory itself, without going any further, ERC tries to preventively cauterize that the play Valls can happen again, in this case with Jaume Collboni.
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But it’s not just Vox. Maragall denounced the tone and content of some of the proclamations of Valents, the force that was born from the ashes of the electoral list created by Valls and the spokesperson for the force, Marta Vilalta, recalled that “Xavier Albiol”, a regular in the controversies about alleged xenophobia. “There’s no need to say anything else,” she declared, paraphrasing what was said one day by the then Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster.
For all these reasons, the commitment requires “not accepting the votes of force that promote fascist speeches to win the mayoralty.” Not even negotiate. Accepting that is what, in practice, Colau did.