MEP and former Minister Clara Ponsatí, who returned to Catalonia last Tuesday after more than five years abroad, today distanced herself from Junts per Catalunya, the party with which she ran in the European elections but where she is not a member. Ponsatí, who has always shown her own profile of herself, has explained in statements to TV3 that she is inclined to abstain in the next municipal elections in Barcelona, so she will not support Xavier Trias.
In 2019, the former minister appeared on the Junts list in the European elections (as number 3, behind Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín) and, at the same time, in the municipal elections -held on the same day- she closed the Primàries candidacy, headed by Jordi Graupera. On this occasion, Ponsatí has revealed that there is no candidate that convinces her, so that "for the moment" she plans to abstain.
"The candidacies that are presented do not offer a project that excites me", lamented the current MEP, although she has stated, at the same time, that "Barcelona needs a major shake-up". In Ponsatí's opinion, the parties that will go to the elections, "either have little energy or are of Spanish affiliation."
The former Minister of Education of the Generalitat has therefore declined to give her public support to the mayor Xavier Trias, so that she marks even more distances with Junts. Ponsatí already entered the Government in 2017 as an independent and has not been a member of Junts since it was created in 2021. In addition, he has expressed discrepancies on more than one occasion with the actions of the Government, when Junts was part of it, or with the political line who has followed the training. "Together is not my party", he has underlined her today.
In this way, Ponsatí has been maintaining his own discourse, as he also made visible on Tuesday at the press conference, when he charged hard against Esquerra and Minister Meritxell Serret, words that were not seconded the following day by the General Secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull.
