The campaign for the elections in Catalonia took its final step this Friday. Salvador Illa, PSC candidate, and Carles Puigdemont, head of the Junts per Catalunya list, appear as the best placed to face the final sprint of a race that not only awards the Generalitat trophy, but can condition governability in Spain . The Catalan parties have closed the campaign in the midst of uncertainty, with a notable mass of undecided people who may hold the key to a contest full of exceptionalities.
The favorite, according to the polls, is Salvador Illa who, after a start conditioned by the five-day break that Sánchez took, has had the President of the Government as one of the main assets of his campaign. Puigdemont, on the other hand, has tried to base his victory on an escape: he has done his entire campaign in France, facing the risk of being arrested if he entered Spain. The actual president, Pere Aragonès, and ERC assume that their new role will be that of luxury gregarious. The Catalan elections also keep the secondary classifications open. The extreme right announces an escalation, as does Vox and the pro-independence ultras of Aliança Catalana, which prevents the PP from capitalizing on the hardening of its conservative discourse. The CUP and the commons apply the mantra that recommends “where you are not going to win, at least you are not going to lose” and Ciudadanos fears that its end will come in a Parliament in which they were the most voted force in 2017.
The leaders of the major national parties were seen this Friday in Catalonia. The President of the Government was in Tarragona in a surprise event. In the afternoon, in Barcelona, at a rally with more than 3,000 people, he urged people to vote “en masse” and “directly, without shortcuts” for Salvador Illa to “win on May 12, and on May 13 to be able to govern Catalonia.” ”. The PSC has worked in this campaign so that, despite the goodness of the polls, the independentistas do not gain a majority that would allow them to retain the Generalitat. “The only candidate who aspires to govern is Salvador Illa. The rest aspire to block,” said Sánchez, cheered by his people when he put on a T-shirt with the glasses and bangs of the socialist candidate.
From France, Puigdemont has taken advantage of the Junts closing rally to send a message to the President of the Government and assert his ability to condition the majorities of Congress. “The time to say ‘enough’ is now,” he said from the French town of Elna this Friday. “Gentlemen of Madrid, prepare yourselves, we are coming,” he warned. His speeches try to seduce the independence electorate, fed up with the sterility of the years of processes, and they announce that voting for him “causes Spain to have a bellyache.” In counterattack, Pere Aragonès has tried to downplay the fight between Junts and the socialists of the PSC: “Catalonia is not a matter of two gentlemen, but of eight million,” he said. “We are the option that they will not send us from La Moncloa or those from the cuts,” he added.
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Looking for space for Comuns Sumar in the equation of the future Government, Yolanda Díaz visited Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) and toughened her speech against the PSC to try to win votes from them in the progressive electorate. “We are going to fill in the full stop,” cried the second vice president of the Government. Díaz supported the head of the list, Jéssica Albiach, to try to break with the dynamic of poor results that her political space achieved in Galicia and the Basque Country.
The PP mobilized all its artillery to try to confront Vox. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, traveled to Girona and Tarragona, and urged that the vote of her ideological option be concentrated on Alejandro Fernández: “Either the vote is united or we have more sanchismo,” she said. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was in Penedès and Barcelona. He avoided mentioning “illegal immigration” as responsible for “insecurity” and “squatting,” as he did on Wednesday. But he did ask for the vote so that “Catalonia becomes a safe land again, especially for women.”
The two weeks of campaigning have had a soundtrack that proclaims that these are momentous elections. “I know it’s always said, but this time it’s true,” Puigdemont warned during his rallies in Argelès-sur-Mer (France). Salvador Illa emphasizes that “after a lost decade” Catalonia is at a crossroads. The socialist candidate appeals to the need to return order and efficiency to the Catalan institutions and reproaches the management of the Government carried out by the independence movement, as well as Junts and ERC. The drought that is hitting Catalonia, and the lack of infrastructure to guarantee the water supply, is the most recent reproach that Illa uses, in a series of complaints that also includes the poor results shown by primary school students and the poor development of renewable energies in Catalonia. Pere Aragonès and Esquerra reply that employment figures are optimal, and that Catalan exports are going from strength to strength, as are investments by foreign companies in Catalonia.
The final chapter of the electoral soap opera this Friday had more backfires than fireworks. Junts per Catalunya and the Popular Party decided not to appear at the last debate of the campaign, the one organized by EL PAÍS and SER. Alejandro Fernández, candidate of the popular party, alleged sudden scheduling problems and Junts incorporated a new pirouette into its manual to haggle over the debate. The candidate Puigdemont, installed in the south of France, has declined all proposals to participate in a physical or telematic debate, including invitations to have a face-to-face meeting, and the party has relegated its number two, the businesswoman Anna Navarro, to leave representation in the hands of number three, former councilor Josep Rull, a man raised in Convergència. Puigdemont did speak this Friday to address information that reveals that Mossos d’Esquadra agents are providing him with an escort service in France. He said that it is “shameful” and “unbecoming of democratic regimes” to investigate the agents who, off duty, protect him in the 12M campaign. Pere Aragonès has ruled out the Ministry of the Interior inspecting what agents do in their free time.
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