“We are experiencing a great replacement.” Directly and in front of a 24-hour supermarket, Elisenda Alamany begins another of her campaign videos as an ERC candidate for mayor of Barcelona. “, of the historical sites, of the spaces with the identity of our city…”, he then clarifies.
The clip aims to announce the first decision that the Republican will make if she replaces Collboni as head of the Barcelona City Council: “from souvenir shops to 24-hour supermarkets.” Alamany herself rejects in the video that the Great Replacement concept has the same meaning that the extreme right gives it; but the substance and the form have generated antibodies in sectors of the left.
The term Great Replacement is considered to have its origins in the essay, and basically defends that the European population is being demographically replaced by immigrants. Both Vox and Aliança Catalana defend this theory, and with just over a year until the next municipal elections in Catalonia, the immigration debate continues to mark the political agenda. According to the latest barometer from the Center d’Estudis d’Opinió, immigration is .
“So much history to end, at extreme speed – pardon the redundancy – in the dictionary of the extreme right and making videos with conspiracy theories,” says Ruben Wagensberg, former ERC deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia until just six months ago, on Instagram. The CUP deputy, Laure Vega, has also made the candidate ugly by using this term. “Great Replacement is a concept only of the extreme right that you have decided to use in front of a 24-hour store where people who are threatened with deportation work. Not in front of a specialty coffee store in English. […]. Los likes now and regrets later are worthless when we do the work on the hardest right,” he writes.
Alamany closes his proposal by defending that the depersonalization of the Catalan capital must be “stopped.” “Because we will make Barcelona be Barcelona again,” he concludes.
