The parties of ERC, PSC and Alternativa per Ripoll-CUP have given details this morning of the government agreement that they closed this Monday to prevent Sílvia Orriols (Aliança Catalana), winner of the elections with six councillors, from ending up as the future mayoress of Ripoll .
According to this agreement, Chantal Pérez (ERC), who was the third most voted list with three representatives, would occupy the mayoralty for the next four years. The first mayoral tenure would be for Enric Pérez (PSC), fourth force with two mayors, and the second for Daniel Vilaseca, from Alternativa per Ripoll-CUP, also with two. The third would fall on Roger Bosch, from ERC.
The agreement, however, does not yet guarantee the investiture or governance of the municipality for the next four years. ERC, PSC and the CUP, which obtained 42% of the votes, add up to seven councilors and do not reach the nine that are necessary to reach an absolute majority.
They need the support of Junts, the party that has governed Ripoll for the last twelve years with Jordi Munell at the helm and that on March 28 presented councilor Manoli Vega as a candidate. The party lost five councilors, going from 8 to 3 and became second force.
In this sense, the three parties that have signed the agreement reach out to Junts to guarantee an alternative government and give stability to the municipality and demand "speed" from Junts in its final decision. They hope to count on your support not only for the inauguration, but also throughout the term.
"We ask Junts to clarify as soon as possible which option it prefers whether to be in government or out of it and to guarantee the maximum stability and governability of the municipality," said the mayor of the PSC, Enric Pérez.
The mayor of the CUP, Dani Vilaseca, has offered the 1,400 voters that Aliança Catalana had, the future government. "We take up their discomfort, their concern in all areas that they have expressed with their vote and we propose a government for all", he points out.
The ERC candidate, Chantal Pérez, has insisted this morning on more than one occasion during her appearance before the media with the idea of an "outstretched hand" to Junts "to continue agreeing if they deem it appropriate." Pérez has indicated that the three groups that have agreed have followed the steps that Junts indicated shortly after 28-M.
At first its candidate, Manoli Vega, had expressed the will not to enter the municipal government and remain in the opposition. One day after the electoral result, Vega pointed out in statements to La Vanguardia that she did not see herself as mayor and that this would be a "mistake."
Then neither did he see it with a bad eye letting the most voted option govern, the Aliança Catalana. An opinion along the lines of the party president, Laura Borràs, who this weekend pointed out that she was not a supporter of the sanitary cordon. Shortly after, she was disavowed by the leadership of her party, which did endorse the cordon sanitaire. The local section of Junts has not yet made a statement.
