Miriam Nogueras. This is the visible head of Junts in Congress and she will be, except for surprise, the party’s candidate in the general elections, and the ‘ex-president’ has already blessed him in a tweet Carlos Puigdemont In a maneuver that seemed to anticipate the afternoon news in the party: the ‘ex-minister’ Jaume Giró, visible head of the moderate sector, has announced to the executive that he will stand in the primary elections to lead the candidacy for the generals.
But Nogueras is undoubtedly preferred not only by Puigdemont but by the general secretary, Jordi Turull. With it, the internal debates about the strategy to follow will not make much sense, because nogueras He has shown that his style is clear: dialectical combat with the PSOE, equating it to the PP, and not an ounce of compromise in Congress, to mark distances with ERC.
In fact, Nogueras’ management in Madrid has clearly been characterized by an aggressive style. He has constantly charged against ERC for having negotiated with the Government and supporting measures such as the general state budget or weighty laws such as the housing law, which Junts has also voted against with arguments such as invading the powers of the Generalitat.
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For his part, Turn is determined to exploit the internal thesis of the moderates according to which the victory of Xavier Trias in Barcelona it is the demonstration that the party has to change course towards pragmatism and avoid unilateralism. His decision to present himself was already taken in March and he communicated it to the general secretary, Jordi Turull and the ‘ex-president’ Puigdemont. And the formal announcement of the decision this Monday has caused surprise and the management comments that it is not a useful decision at the gates of another electoral campaign in which Junts also has a lot at stake.
Turull insists on the joint candidacy with ERC
“Given the demobilization, the call to take action again in a unitary way, we launched the proposal” of a unitary candidacy in the general elections with ERC and the rest of the independence movement, announced the General Secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, with the aim that the general elections focus on the sovereign issue. “Getting back to the heartbeat that exists in the citizens, that many of them have demobilized, let’s situate the Catalan issue clearly in Madrid”, he proposed, leaving open the specific formula for the candidacy.