Resurface from the ashes. This is the main objective of the PP for the municipal elections in Catalonia. The popular hit rock bottom four years ago, when they only got 67 councilors and 3.1% of the votes. Some very bad results, even more so when compared to those of 2015, when they had 214 councillors, and even more if the 473 of 2011 are taken into account. At that time, they were the third largest force in the Catalan territory, only behind CiU and the PSC. Twelve years have passed and although popular optimism has not returned to these figures, they do trust the recovery predicted by the polls ahead of the municipal elections on May 28. Party sources attribute the wave of good state prospects to the national leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the face of the generals and hope to achieve the erosion of his main opponents in Catalonia: citizens and vox.
The popular ones have been working for a long time to deepen their OPA to the oranges. In the last elections to the Parliament, some examples of this were already given, such as the signing of one of the main visible faces, Lorraine Roldan, as number two of the PP. But in the lists for the month of May this image will be repeated throughout the territory. In fact, several Ciudadanos candidates in 2019 will now top the popular lists. A situation that occurs in Canet de Mar, Pallejà, La Llagosta or Viladecavalls. And, in the case of Molins de Rei, the ex-candidate of the oranges will be the number two of the PP.
Also in the city of Barcelona there has been support from former leaders of the party led by Carlos Carrizosa. Specifically, three representatives of the districts of Sant Martí, the Corts and the Eixample have joined the PP, according to popular sources. In addition, the ex-postulant of Cs in Sant Cugat has recently announced her support for the popular candidate and a Mollet councilor has joined the party chaired by Alexander Fernandez in Catalonia and will work for the candidacy of Xavier Garcia Albiol in Badalona. These are people linked to the critical sectors of Cs and who had already passed to the group of non-attached.
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Orange party sources acknowledge that They still do not have alternative mayors for the municipalities where they have lost the candidate, although they remember that they still have a month and a half to spare. The oranges claim to have already ready between 80 and 90 municipal candidacies, 80% of the target set. Four years ago they expanded their territorial base very significantly and presented themselves in 204 municipalities, although in the previous ones –those of 2015– they were represented in 90.
But the popular not only fish for candidates in Cs, but also in the extreme right of vox. Former leaders of the popular who went to the ranks ultras have decided to return to their original party. An example of this is the mayor of Viladecans, who was mayor in 2019 with Vox and now will be with the PP. The coordinator of the Santiago Abascal party in Baix Llobregat has also left the formation and joined the PP, although in his case he was not a former militant. According to popular sources, in recent months they have detected a significant increase in militants, especially in the province of Barcelona, where 143 militants have gained since July. Currently there are 20,300 in total.