Hangover from the Junts congress. A conclave that served, yes, to show internal cohesion around the new leadership, but that leaves a first conflict: low participation does not allow the one who should have been Secretary of Organization to enter the executive, David Torrentnor to the deputy Ester Valles, which was part of the only proposed candidacy. Aurora Madaula, candidate for vice president, manages to enter because the four vice presidents were voted globally.
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It is paradoxical that a conclave of reaffirmation did not achieve that the participation of the 6,000 militants with the right to vote exceeded 37% in the three planned votes. Voting that, in addition, could be done for 24 hours and electronically. This Sunday, the version of different people in the management is that you cannot accept torrent nor to Valles because the regulations of the congress were clear: 50% support is required from among those who exercised their right to vote to confirm their positions. The case is even more bloody if one takes into account that torrent only 15% of the 6,000 militants voted for him. Torrents, councilor in Badalona, former Mosso d’Esquadra and with a pro-independence profile that is very combative and critical of ERC, remains silent.
Borràs, not so leader
Another key to the voting, in the context of low general participation, is that the new president of the party and president of Parliament, Laura Borràs, who swept the primary elections to be a candidate for the Generalitat, was less votes than the new general secretary, Jordi Turull, and was also below Anna Erra, vice president. One of the most voted was the ‘conseller’ of Economy, Jaume Giró. The main ‘squires’ of Borràs, Francis of Dalmases, Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas and especially aurora madaula, did not achieve a significant figure of support. On the other hand, Míriam Nogueras, leader of Junts in Congress and also close to Borràs’ theses, obtained a notable level of support, always in the context of low participation.