24 hours before the official start of the electoral campaign, former president Jordi Pujol publicly supported the candidacy of Junts and Carles Puigdemont in an event in Martorell together with the historic convergent leader and former mayor of that city Salvador Esteve, who occupies a symbolic position in the JxCat list for Barcelona on May 12, as a substitute.
Former president Artur Mas will do the same this Wednesday in Vilassar de Mar, which will be his first act in this race. The day Puigdemont announced his candidacy in Elna, in mid-March, Mas was not present in the south of France due to scheduling reasons, but he will also contribute his grain of sand in the electoral race, as he already did in the elections. general. In addition to tomorrow's event, on Saturday he will be in another town in Maresme, in Cabrera de Mar, together with the post-convergent mayor.
In the municipal campaign in May last year, Mas supported both candidates from Junts – such as Xavier Trias in Barcelona, Miquel Noguer in Banyoles or Laura Martínez in Vilassar de Mar – and, at the same time, also some from the PDECat . In the general elections, a few weeks later, however, he asked to concentrate the vote in JxCat and did not share the PDECat's decision to attend that electoral event. Thus, in the last campaign he already supported Junts and accompanied Miriam Nogueras at an event with businessmen in Barcelona.
Mañana Mas will be with the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, and with the mayor of Vilassar de Mar, the already mentioned Laura Martínez, who this Monday participated in the meeting of the post-convergents in Argelers, in the south of France, along with others mayors of Maresme.
In that act, in fact, the figure of Pujol was vindicated from the stand openly by the young mayor of Cabrera de Mar Òscar Fernández, who defended his legacy and the idea of “winning the maximum of powers” for the Generalitat as well as its management. That was not the first time that Pujol's shadow has been present in this campaign, but it was the first time that he was named on stage.
At Saturday's event, among those present, there were those who compared the intervention of the founder of Convergència and his famous "tites, tites" with that of Puigdemont when he proclaimed that the campaign was about Catalonia and not about Pedro Sánchez or the future of the PSOE, at a time when it was not yet known what the head of the central Executive would do. “What have they believed? "What do they want?" exclaimed the JxCat candidate.
Today's event by Mas is part of Junts' B campaign. Puigdemont monopolizes the media focus from Argelers. However, in parallel, the leaders of the formation move throughout Catalonia and hold in-person events with a traditional format: walks through the street, visits, meetings with businessmen and associations and rallies in places such as Sant Cugat, Amposta, Manresa, Mollerussa – today– or Vilassar de Mar –tomorrow–.
The heads of the list of Tarragona, Girona and Lleida are dedicated to that other campaign together with Turull, Josep Rull, the president of the Parliament, Anna Erra, the spokeswoman in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras or the president of the party, Laura Borràs. Today, as there was a pause in Alger for the funeral of Puigdemont's mother, who was in Amer, Turull's act in Mollerusa came to the fore.
