Junts per Catalunya has completed this Friday the election of its candidates for the general elections on July 23. The leader of the formation in Madrid and number one for Barcelona, Míriam Nogueras, and the acting mayor of Girona and member of Parliament, Marta Madrenas, will be joined by Isidre Gavín as cabeza de cartel in Lleida and Josep Maria Cruset in Tarragona. These are two similar profiles, both are engineers, come from Convergència and have been linked to infrastructure management in recent years.
Gavín, who was facing four other candidates in his constituency, has experience as a parliamentarian and already knows what it is to be a deputy in Parliament (he was between 1984 and 2003), where he has also had responsibilities in the Bureau; or what it is to be president of the Lleida Provincial Council between 2003 and 2007. In addition, he was part of the sottogoverno of the Catalan executive, in 2018 he was appointed Secretary of Mobility and Infrastructures, a position in which he remained until October 2022, when Junts He left the Government. The brand new candidate, who at the age of 21 in 1984 was the youngest deputy in Europe, faced Joan Buchaca, Marta Gispert, Santiago Sàlvia and David Tavero.
Cruset, for his part, also has experience in administrations. He was mayor of Riudoms from 2007 to 2018, when he became president of the Port of Tarragona. He left this last position in 2022 with the departure of JxCat from the Executive of Pere Aragonès. The number one for Tarragona has defeated the former Altafulla councilor and university professor Héctor López Bofill, a militant related to the most activist sector of JxCat. A different profile after all.
In Barcelona, with ex-minister Jaume Giró out of the primary race, there was no mystery. Nogueras has received the support of former president Carles Puigdemont at all times and even the general secretary, Jordi Turull. Madrenas in Girona also had no rival.
Nogueras has obtained 1,594 votes in the province of Barcelona, a few less than those obtained from all the Junts militancy in the last training congress. Madrenas, in Girona, has added 298 supports; Cruset, 286 in Tarragona for the 94 of his rival, López Bofill; and Gavín 142 in Lleida followed by Gispert with 118 votes.
