Quim Nadal and Carles Campuzano are on the ERC lists as independents and Roger Torrent is not noted | Elections in Catalonia 12-M | EUROtoday

The National Council of the Republican Left of Catalonia accepted this Tuesday the lists with which it is going to take part within the subsequent regional elections on May 12. Few new developments in candidatures with a markedly steady nature and with out media signings, as has occurred for the European elections, the place TV3 meteorologist Tomàs Molina will type a tandem with Diana Riba. Two of the councilors who joined the Government as independents after the departure of Junts have taken the step: the previous Convergent Carles Campuzano, head of Social Rights, is listed as quantity seven for Barcelona. The former chief of the PSC within the Parliament and Minister of Universities, Quim Nadal, closes the checklist for Girona. After 4 phrases as a candidate, the previous president of the Chamber Roger Torrent doesn’t repeat.

Of the 15 members of Esquerra's monochrome Executive, solely six will go to the occasion lists, two of them being impartial. He president Pere Aragonès and vice-president Laura Vilagrà lead the candidacy for Barcelona. There are additionally in positions 5, six and eight, respectively, the councilors of Interior, (Joan Ignasi Elena), Territory (Ester Capella) and Feminisms (Tània Verge).

Sources from the formation guarantee that on the subject of squaring up the sudoku of the lists, the profiles chosen throughout the Government make it attainable to draw votes from sensitivities past the ERC acronym. Their absence, they insist, “does not imply in any case that they are not counted on or that their performance is not valued.” The indisputable fact that Republicans draw up zipper lists to make sure gender parity makes it much more sophisticated to regulate the preferences of the territory with these of the occasion management.

One of essentially the most notable absences is that of the previous president of the Chamber and present holder of the Business portfolio, Roger Torrent. In the 2021 elections he was quantity three on the checklist for Barcelona and had been a deputy for 4 phrases. The present vice chairman of the Parliament and former Minister of Health Alba Vergés doesn’t repeat both; the pinnacle of Foreign Action, Meritxell Serret, and the deputy minister of Strategy and Communication of the Government, Sergi Sabrià.

Yes, Ruben Wagensberg, fourth secretary of the Parliamentary Bureau and investigated within the Tsunami case, stays throughout the candidacy for Barcelona. Although he determined to go to Switzerland after studying of his accusation, the Republican management has chosen to maintain him in a distinguished place on the checklist, quantity 9, simply behind Verge.

The former consultant in Congress Laia Cañigueral will head the checklist of Republicans for Girona and the identical shall be executed by the occasion spokesperson, Raquel Sans, for Tarragona. The spokesperson within the Catalan Chamber, Marta Vilalta, additionally repeats as first on the checklist for Lleida. The headliners had undergone a major course of, however had been lastly routinely proclaimed per week in the past as no different names participated within the inner course of.

“Catalonia will choose whether it should be governed by those who, faced with difficulties, resign and leave, faced with difficulties when there is a Budget, decide not to vote on it, faced with difficulties, decide to leave the Government,” Aragonès assured in his speech earlier than the National Council.