The former councilor and MEP Clara Ponsatí will be the head of the list of the new party Alhora in the constituency of Barcelona for the elections of May 12. The philosopher Jordi Graupera, co-founder of the party, will be number two in the candidacy.
The formation, a fourth pro-independence space, was registered as a political party last March, with Graupera as president and Ponsatí as secretary, obtaining in a few weeks the necessary signatures to be able to present a candidacy in the May elections.
In addition to Barcelona, the party will present a candidacy in the other three Catalan constituencies. Thus, in Tarragona, secondary school teacher Meritxell Blay will head the list; in Girona the businessman Marc Cassany; while the photographer and activist Jordi V. Pou will start in Lleida, who already led the Primary candidacy in the capital of Segrià in 2019.
Personalities such as Miquel de Palol, Roger Mas, Carlota Gurt, Narcís Comadira, Joan Magrané and Dolors Oller will close the lists in the various constituencies.
"We are a team and we combine generations, professional experiences and political trajectories," Ponsatí explained in a statement released to the media, in which he stated that he would like to be the "icebreaker of a new generation of leaders for the country" who will make possible "to get out of the dead end where the big parties have led us". "Until we renew the leadership, the best version of our policy will not appear," he added.
Ponsatí, Minister of Education in the Puigdemont Government in the autumn of 2017, has always been one of the most unilateralist voices of the independence movement, very critical of the decision that was taken then to not stand up to the Government of Mariano Rajoy and defend the unilateral proclamation of independence in Catalonia.
In recent times, Ponsatí has also reproached both the ERC Government for its "autonomist" commitment and JxCat for facilitating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
De Palol and Gurt will close the Alhora list in Barcelona, while the Girona list will have Oller and Comadira. In Tarragona, the list will be closed by the Hebrew writer Joan Todó and the Reus composer Joan Magrané. Finally, in the demarcation of Lleida, the writer and art historian Maria Garganté and the musician Roger Mas will do it.
In the coming days, the rest of the names in the candidacy will be made public. During the conference at the Teatre Borràs on April 23, the main lines that structure the political project will be presented.
