In each locality governed by socialists or post-convergents in alliance, ERC brings out the shadow of the suspicion of the pact in advance between the two in the campaign events. "They agree even before there are elections", denounced Oriol Junqueras yesterday. The accusation was launched in a setting that he considers ideal to do so: Vilafranca del Penedès, where CiU – later Junts – and the PSC have shared power for 40 years.
The president of ERC wants to undermine the options of the PSC. He doesn't want to give room for them to recover a mayor's office that they stopped leading in 2009. Junqueras has also done it on another front, valuing the Republicans' commitment to independence and the right to decide: "How many discovered that the cause of independence was the fair and they saw that in their spaces they were denied the right to vote and to decide the democratic future of their country; how many people had to leave the Socialist Party in order to continue to be truly socialists".
ERC insisted this Tuesday on the label of "socio-vergence" to tarnish the image of a town council that from 1979 to 2009 ran the PSC, and then led it CiU. In detail, that year, a motion of censure promoted by CiU, with the support of ERC and the CUP, unseated the mayor's PSC.
The Republicans managed to take second place in the 2019 elections, and Pere Sàbat, ERC candidate for mayor of Vilafranca, is confident of overtaking.
Sàbat asked the voters to give him "an opportunity" to deploy his municipal project. Bet on erecting an emergency center next to the hospital, building a second library, doubling investment in housing policies and moving to 2% of the budget, a university campus, a digital innovation hub, and new police departments "What are these elections about? If we let those who have been dividing the City Hall for 40 years continue to divide it, or if we open a new stage to advance the transformation that this city needs", he cried.
