Dante Pérez, mayor of Gimenells, leaves the PP. This was announced by X (before Twitter) in a message in which he harshly criticizes the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo for "criminalizing" the violent protests against the amnesty and for his "collaboration with the oppressor".
The young politician from Ilerda, who was number one on the PP list for Lleida in the last general elections and failed to win a seat in Congress, attacks the party leader, whom he accuses of not supporting the "rebellion" of the "people" against the PSOE at a time when Pedro Sánchez "leads it to a dictatorship."
Coming from the PSC, Dante Pérez was a bet of Xavier García Albiol in 2017, when the mayor of Badalona presided over the PP of Catalonia and placed him as number two for Lleida in the candidacy for Parliament on December 21, in which the popular They won four seats.
The mayor of Gimenells and Pla de la Font, a small municipality in Segrià, then broke with the socialists as a result of the PSC's pact with United per Avançar, the formation led by Ramon Espadaler, because he was "unable to share a party with the nationalists " of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya, integrated in CiU and where the former interior minister came from.
Six years later, the politician takes a new turn in his career and announces that he is also leaving the PP: "Well, that's it. Enough to discover that collaboration with the oppressor nests in the depths of the PP," he announced on the social network. to unsubscribe this November 8, the same day he left the socialist ranks and, as he explains, for the same reason: the "infamous betrayal of Spain" by their respective leaders.
For Dante Pérez, Feijóo's attempts to approach Junts to explore his ultimately failed investiture, which he summarizes in his message in five phrases from PP leaders ("Junts is not my rival", "the democratic tradition of Junts is outside of all doubt", "we must look for a fit for Catalonia", "respect for Carles Puigdemont", "we must normalize the relationship with nationalism"), were the beginning of the rupture that culminated this Thursday.
When consulted by La Vanguardia, sources from the Catalan PP executive have limited themselves to pointing out that they "take note of the loss", the first notable one that has occurred in Catalonia since Feijóo's arrival to the presidency, and with which the popular Catalans They lose one of the five mayoralties they have in the community, along with those of Badalona, Castelldefels, Pontons and Monistrol de Montserrat.
