Together for Catalonia I have vivid a week horribly Because of Aliança Catalan, the secessionist party of ultras postulates led by Sílvia Orriols. The direction of the formation had to mark territory against Artur Mas, former president of the Generalitat with democratic convergence of Catalonia (CDC), which suggested eight days ago. Junts has also had to defend himself for a second breach of the pact with which all formations, except for the PP, aspire to block the legislative activity of the extreme right. Those of Carles Puigdemont seek the recipe to face a party that, according to surveys, has potential to eat ground in the next municipal elections.
“You can’t say that there are good and bad votes. You have to differentiate between speaking with Aliança Catalan and doing joint strategies with them, ”said the former Catalan president in an interview with the Diari de Barcelona. But, which is not an affiliate of Junts but whose postulates are very influential in the most convergent soul of the formation, even equate the Orriols party with the anti -capitalists of the CUP, despite being at one end of the ideological axis.
The statements of former president They were soon answered vehemently by number two of Junts, Jordi Turull. “Junts’s pact policy is decided by Junts,” said former Presidency Counselor. However, the taboo about the possible relationship with this formation – which – has already been broken and are about to see the replicas of such a political movement.
What to do with is an issue that occupies and worries within the Juns dome. First. For urgent things, such as the possibility of making a great covenant that allows Orriols to be evicted from the Mayor’s Office of Ripoll. Second, for more background issues. In the last Catalan elections, those of Orriols obtained only two seats, but were a handful of votes to reach one more for Lleida and another in Barcelona. The posterior barometers of the center d’Estudis d’O opinion They show how, in the intention to vote, Aliança is the first game where Junts voters would land, winning ERC and CUP by minimum.
“That does not mean that Juns’ voter is xenophobic, but shows some sympathy towards the issues that Aliança addresses,” says Marc Guinjoan, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The issue of insecurity, especially multirreincididad, and immigration management (28% of those registered in Catalonia are of immigrant origin) are concerns that Aliança has put in the center. But there were two concerns that, traditionally, the Catalan right had made flag.
Juns’s recipe, at least until now, had gone to try to get that flag again, but by elevation. Before Orriols’ policy, those of Puigdemont wanted to show themselves as a government party. There, they accept voices of training, the commitment to request the transfer of immigration skills and try to solve with legal improvements the approach of the offices or of.
Turull himself, in an interview with the program Ideas coffee Of the 2, he went out to defend this route. “We are focused on doing well, not others. Our attempt must be who governs, not who is not, ”he added. And he also went out to try to remove the sambenito to flirt with xenophobic policies, remembering how during the Tripartite Government of the Generalitat was the Ecosocialist Interior Minister.
However, parliamentary life has given another indication that in Junts the relationship with Aliança Catalan is under the magnifying glass. In the plenary of the last week of January, the second force of the Chamber again made its own interpretation of the terms of the pact signed by PSC, the Common, ERC and the CUP; And he abstained in a proposal for the declaration of the Parliament presented by Orriols and condemned the attack on one of the tents of the Ultra Party in Barcelona. and his Mònica Sales spokesman justified the position saying that his vote did not facilitate the text to prosper. The commission that monitors the agreement insists that it must always be voted against, beyond the content.
Guinjoan believes that Junts does not face any particular situation. He walks the path of all traditional right -wing parties, who are choking their relationship with the ultra -right. Without going any further, the situation keeps certain parallels with what happens between the PP and Vox at the Spanish level. And what happens with CDU and AFD in Germany and that, by the way, generated the rejection of former chancellor Angela Merkel. For the political scientist Astrid Barrio, Junts is in the dilemma between competition and cooperation. The first is the difficult path, but believes that it is the one who points. For the other, however, he sees incentives. “Achieve municipal governments and eventually that of the Generalitat, although the rest of the independentists would be needed and that seems more difficult,” he says.
