The independence movement mobilizes to avenge the defeat of Trias on 23-J

The Catalan independence movement intends to make electorally profitable the painful defeat that Xavier Trias reaped last Saturday, when he lost the Mayor of Barcelona at the hands of Jaume Collboni thanks to the support of the PP for the socialist candidate.

The secessionist forces appeal to avenge the constitutionalist operation that prevented a front formed by Junts and ERC from governing the second city of Spain and that both the Council and the Generalitat were dominated by parties contrary to the constitutional order.

Once the disgust has been digested, Junts and ERC intend to resume negotiations to form that common front that Pere Aragonès proposed after the municipal ones with an eye on the general ones. Once an electoral alliance to run in a coalition has been ruled out, they continue to consider the possibility of going to 23-J with a programmatic agreement to defend the same position in Congress once the elections have passed, something that has not happened in the current legislature, in the that ERC has opted for the negotiation with the PSOE and Junts has continued focused on the confrontation.

Feeding this spirit of pretended communion, Gabriel Rufián called the secessionist mobilization: «I ask for the vote for independence, I don't care if it is for ERC. Let them go vote,” said the head of the Republican list for the generals yesterday.

The second movement of ERC went through placing Ernest Maragall as number two on the Senate lists, with the aim of using the other victim of the constitutional pact in the Barcelona City Council as an electoral claim.

“I am running to respond to the State pact against Barcelona and to give voters the opportunity to correct what the State has prevented, what the PP, the PSOE and Sumar have decided to spoil,” said Maragall yesterday, who was going to become in the first deputy mayor of the Barcelona City Council by virtue of the agreement reached with Trias, which came to be validated by the bases of ERC and Junts. «We must go from the veto to the vote. The State has applied a de facto 155 in our city and for this we have to go to Madrid with the maximum force and power. We cannot accept that what happened on Saturday is expressed through resignation,” Maragall added, to try to reactivate the Republican electorate, who opted to abstain in the municipal elections, which led Oriol Junqueras's party to lose 302,000 votes. .

Trias, for his part, preferred to promote the boycott of the constitutionalist forces in Catalonia for having allied themselves against his candidacy for mayor. “I ask people not to vote for them. Voting for the PP and socialist in Catalonia is a disaster,” he claimed, before offering to actively participate in the Junts campaign for the generals, although he ruled out symbolically joining the lists.

The nationalist continued to defend that there is a will to “exterminate” the independence movement to seek the reaction of his voters. Junts calls to vote “so that Spain does not win”. “You have to vote to say no to this Spain that did what it did in Barcelona,” defended the head of the neoconvergent list, Míriam Nogueras. “If we don't go out to vote, Spain will win, if you don't go, they add up,” insisted the candidate chosen by Carles Puigdemont.