Former ERC MP Alfred Bosch is pushing for a 3rd candidacy to guide the get together | Catalonia News | EUROtoday

A brand new competitor has emerged within the race for the reins of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. The former member of Congress for that get together, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat and former Republican chief within the Barcelona City Council, Alfred Bosch, is the best-known face of Foc Nou, new hearth in Catalan, a pre-candidacy that’s getting ready for the extraordinary Congress of the Republicans in November. There they may compete in opposition to the lists of Oriol Junqueras (Militància Decidim) and people near Marta Rovira (Nova Esquerra Nacional). Foc Nou seeks to current itself because the one which embodies a real renewal and with an independence message that vindicates the mandate of 1-O in opposition to what they take into account an autonomist drift of the present management.

In their X account, the candidacy claims to be a gaggle of ERC militants who reject the systematic making of agreements “with Spanish nationalism” – in reference to the agreements reached with the socialists in each Madrid and Catalonia – they need to recuperate the picture of honesty earlier than the get together – they perceive that the earlier management has been affected by scandals such because the posters in opposition to the Maragalls – and that the mute have to be faraway from the independence demand that they imagine has been used in recent times.

Sources near the group that’s selling the get together clarify that after the Diada they may formally current themselves and description the undertaking. These voices are very tight-lipped concerning the names of the promoters, though Bosch's identify has already been revealed. Also current is Joan Puig Cordon, a member of the National Council of the get together and who additionally belongs to the 1-O Collective, which brings collectively a handful of activists who’re in open disagreement with the course set on the time by the Junqueras and Rovira tandem.

Bosch, who was faraway from the Barcelona candidacy after profitable the get together primaries in 2014, is just not precisely a brand new face throughout the Republicans, however he does give voice to essentially the most important sectors. The former chief of the get together within the Catalan capital had already proven his criticism of Junqueras' management for the outcomes of the final electoral cycle and instantly blamed the debacle on the shelving of the independence demand. The triumph of the socialists final yr in Barcelona, ​​he assured on the web site let's discuss clear He responded “to the complexes of sectors of ERC who do not suffer from accusations of being bad sovereignists but instead sweat blood with accusations of being bad progressives.” “Today few people see Junqueras and ERC as the main victims of a great injustice. After the pardons, the perception is that the political game has replaced the moral one,” he confused.

Foc Nou would then need to compete in opposition to Militància Decidim, which might be introduced with an occasion on the twenty first of this month in Olesa de Montserrat. Oriol Junqueras is supported by, amongst others, the previous minister Raül Romeva and the MEP Diana Riba. Nova Esquerra Nacional, which held a press convention final week, has as its seen face the deputy in Congress Teresa Jordà. Another query is whether or not the Colectivo 1-O, which additionally wished to current a listing, will merge with Bosch's record or proceed alone.

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