This Monday was the last day on which polls for the Parliamentary elections of May 12 can be published, as stipulated by the electoral law, and Junts per Catalunya has used the polls to try to concentrate the pro-independence vote and try to convince the undecided.
Most forecasts draw a scenario in which the PSC repeats in first position, as in 2021, and Junts remains in second position. Those that have been published in the last few hours – except for the CIS survey – leave the post-convergents close to the socialists and with a wide margin over their former partner in the Government, Esquerra, which would be relegated to third position. That is the still photograph of the last few days, although some polls differ in the distance between JxCat and ERC.
With this scenario, the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, assured today at a rally with supporters of Bages and Berguedà that the Junts ballot “is worth two” because it is “exceptional for some and devastating for others.” “It reinforces the only independence candidacy that can win and lead” after May 12 and, in addition, it can “cause a bellyache in Madrid,” he added. “We have the Government of Spain in our grip. If we have done it with seven deputies, what won't we do with the Government?”, the post-convergent leader later reasoned.
“This week has to be the week of mobilization,” said Puigdemont. “We have to go find all those who have not yet decided to vote and go and convince the undecided,” said the Junts candidate. “That is the objective that we have to set for ourselves in the coming days and mobilize those who are at home thinking that it is not worth going to vote. We have the opportunity to convince and mobilize,” he insisted.
Likewise, the former president has stressed that if they are in charge of the next Catalan executive, they will lead a Government of "strictly Catalan obedience" that will stand before the central Government in Madrid and has reiterated that they will try to put an end to the "fiscal plunder", in order to do so. that JxCat demands an economic agreement, similar to the Basque model.
In that same sense, the deputy to the general secretary of Junts, David Saldoni, has spoken out, insisting on the idea that the Parliamentary elections are a plebiscite between PSC and JxCat. “The polls say it, this is about Salvador Illa or Carles Puigdemont,” said Saldoni, who is on the Barcelona list and is already a deputy. He has also assured that the post-convergent leader is “the one who best defends the interests” of Catalonia and has claimed that his party is that of “common sense.”
