The former vice president of the Government Joana Ortega has confirmed this Wednesday that she will run for number six on Xavier Trias' candidacy in the municipal elections on May 28, a list in which different "sensitivities" will come together and that cannot be said to be the " JxCat list".
"I'm not on a JxCat list. It's a list where there are people from JxCat, PDeCAT, Demòcrates, independents", remarked in statements to La 2 and Ràdio 4 Ortega, who joins the Trias team as a representative of PDeCAT , along with "four or five" other people from this party, who will occupy lower positions.
Ortega, who was vice president of the extinct Unió Democràtica and who contributed decisively to organizing the 9N 2014 sovereign consultation in the Government of Artur Mas, has highlighted the transversal profile sought by the list of Trias, whose electoral ballots will display the face of the mayor and they will hide the initials of JxCat.
In fact, Ortega has stressed that the acronym for JxCat does not appear in the name of the candidacy either: "I am not running with Junts, I am running with Trias x Barcelona, which is a platform of different parties."
Ortega, who is "very excited" about this challenge that Trias directly proposed to him, has guaranteed that, if his group remains in the opposition after the elections, it will remain in the city council.
As for the political content to be displayed, he has opted to transmit an "image of centrality, of pragmatic politics", focusing on "solving very serious problems" in the city.
Ortega today does not see a climate of "consensus" in Catalan society like the one that led Artur Mas's government to promote the 9N consultation, which is why he is in favor of prioritizing other issues and leaving the pro-independence debate in the background.
"What we have to do above all, at this time, is to prioritize the urgent problems that citizens have. I yearn for independence, but at this time I do not see that this is feasible or possible. I do not renounce independence, but I put all these problems that today are very important for the country", he said.
For Ortega, the Trias list is the alternative to the "tripartite" that Ada Colau leads with the socialists and with the "crutch" ERC.
