The number 1 of ERC for Barcelona in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has warned that to stop "the right and the extreme right, the left is really useless"
He said this this Saturday at the presentation of ERC's candidacy to the Congress and the Senate for Barcelona, along with numbers 2, 3 and 4 in Congress, Teresa Jordà, Francesc-Marc Álvaro and Pilar Vallugera, respectively, and the numbers 1 and 2 in the Senate, Joan Queralt and Ernest Maragall.
According to Rufián, voting for ERC means "stopping the black Spain of PP and Vox. But it also means stopping the gray Spain of PP and PSOE. But it also means demanding, forcing the 'red-brown' Spain of PSOE and Sumar to do things".
He has affirmed that only "the Catalan and Basque independence movement can force the PSOE not to look to its right, as it always does", and has pointed out the importance of going to vote in the 23J elections because he considers that they will mark what is going to happen in the next 40 years.
The ERC spokesman in Congress also regretted that his party, in the last four years, "has played in the opposite field against a terribly powerful team, surrounded by people who were watching from the stands."
"If they play so well, let them come down with us to fight against this terribly powerful team, because the easy thing is to comment on the play," he added.
Jordà has claimed ERC as the "only party clean of corruption in this country that can defend and protect" Catalonia.
He pointed out that in Catalonia "there are many problems paying the rent", referring to the --literally-- betrayal of the subconscious experienced by the president of the Congress and number 1 of the PSC for Barcelona, Meritxell Batet, when affirming that the majority of the population has no problem doing so.
Álvaro has indicated that the Republicans are "those who have achieved concrete things in Madrid", and has explained that he has decided to enter the list because of history, for the moment and because it fully coincides with the thinking of ERC.
According to Vallugera, in Madrid "most of the political power is detected", for which he has stated verbatim that the ERC is trying to take it away so they can have it.
Queralt has assured that he is going to "fight for amnesty" in the Senate, which according to him does not mean asking for forgiveness, but that it is recognized that they have been punished without reason, he said.
For his part, Maragall has promised to act as a "Barcelona councilor from the Senate", and has pointed out that Rufián must represent Catalonia at the most complicated moment in its recent history, in his words.
