Gabriel Rufián is so eager to show his origins that he looked for a significant place yesterday in Santa Coloma de Gramenet to vent his ideas. He has left his mark and the Puig Castellar institute even more. It was where his mother and his aunts studied and where they later worked as seamstresses for a clandestine workshop in the 1980s and 1990s. Fine furs.
Teachers from this institute ended up at the PSUC in the 70s and 80s, formation of which Junqueras declared heir. The red belt is not called red because the PSC won, he reasoned, but because years ago the PSUC won. “They were the real left and today we represent them ERC. We are the real reds,” he cried.
With this entry, Rufián, in a white shirt, but with a heart redder than "independence charnego" -with seven raised fists in the campaign logo- vindicated his roots and his ideas.
He focused on reeling off a series of commitments he intends for the city where he grew up as a child, long before he could practice his parodied "blue steel stare." He got rid of the estelada. He doesn't play now. “Let's make sacks from the flags and fill them with content; Let's talk about what we share: precariousness, misery, unemployment, the feminist struggle and the environment, ”he went on to say. "The only ideology and flag will be that of the City Council."
So he made a whole string of promises pivoting on the axes of education, family and work, in addition to cleaning and security: 40 more local police officers, million-dollar investments for all levels of education, 800,000 euros to reinforce English ( it is the second city in southern Europe with the lowest level, he said), the very famous second residence, etc.
To claim, that it does not remain. He also appealed to history, to the pride of the working class and humble, such as the hijacking of the buses of line 230, on June 6 and 7, 1977. An action to claim the connection with Barcelona, a year before the most known in Torre Baró. Ruffian, as a child, wanted to be a bus driver.
An electoral campaign in Santa Coloma would never have captured the attention of the media if it had not been for the inclusion of Rufián as mayor of ERC. The victory of the PSC in the city is indisputable. He has governed for 32 years, 14 of which with Núria Parlón at the helm. But the Republican does not aspire to take over the mayoralty. Junqueras' assignment is another: to make a dent in an area, the metropolitan area of Barcelona, which until a few years ago was Comanche territory for ERC. And rebound, that spearheads the representation of ERC throughout the red belt.
