The parties open the election campaign in Catalonia

   BARCELONA, 25 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The parties opened the electoral campaign for the Catalan elections this Thursday. The PSC would win the Catalan elections with 39-40 seats (20.9% of the votes), followed by Junts, which would get 28-30 and 12.5%, and by ERC, with 27-28 deputies and 14, 5%, as estimated by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) this Thursday.

In this way, the PSC would regain its first place in the May 12 elections, while ERC would lose the independence leadership, which would be obtained by the formation of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, despite Esquerra winning in percentage of votes. These were the acts of the electoral opening:

The PSC candidate for 12M, Salvador Illa, has highlighted the individual resistance that, in his opinion, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has and has expressed his support after canceling his agenda to reflect on his future as president: " The PSC is with you!"

This is what he said at the first PSC campaign event in Sabadell (Barcelona) together with the mayor of the city, Marta Farrés, and before about 1,600 people according to party figures, and he has urged to raise a "collective resistance" from of Sánchez's resistance.

"A collective resistance that says 'no' to the destruction of the adversary, that says 'no' to the insult and that says 'yes' to noble politics, understood as a public service," said Illa, who has maintained that the rulers They are chosen at the polls and not in the offices, and that the vote of a worker is equal to that of a person with resources.

The president of the Generalitat and ERC candidate for re-election, Pere Aragonès, has assured that he is also deeply in love with his wife but that he does not abandon "when the extreme right attacks", after the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, canceled his public agenda to think about whether he remains in office after denouncing his wife.

At the campaign launch event at the Jardinets de Gràcia in Barcelona, ​​he warned that, when talking about Sánchez's personal situation, "they stop talking about corruption cases" such as the 'Koldo case' and the '3%' that, according to him, undermine citizens' confidence in public services, and he has defended that ERC is the party of honest politics.

The president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has said that it is "difficult for him to understand" that the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, needs 5 days to know if he wants to continue leading the Executive, and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, has intervened electronically to ask to seek the support of the people to revalidate the Generalitat.

The Junts candidate for the Catalan elections, Carles Puigdemont, has asked to be decisive to break "the 'no' pact signed between PP and PSOE" on Catalonia and which, in his opinion, they have already begun to defeat with the 7 deputies who they have in Congress with the approval of the amnesty, among other issues.

"What else can we break if we also have the presidency of the country?" to take over the Presidency of the Generalitat as happened in the Barcelona City Council, a move that he has well in mind, he said.

According to Puigdemont, it is time for the Government to listen to "say 'No, it won't happen here'," and to negotiate as equals, and he has literally stressed that they will resist all attempts to Spanishize the campaign, highlighting that they know much better. than others the actions of the state justice and police.

The CUP candidate for the Catalan elections, Laia Estrada, has defended breaking the "republican sociovergence" in the Parliament after the elections, alluding to the trend of pacts that, she says, PSC, Junts and ERC have maintained in the last legislature .

At the opening ceremony of the CUP's electoral campaign in Barcelona, ​​he claimed to combine a social agenda and an agenda of self-determination to "overflow the limits of the '78 regime."

Estrada has stressed that the CUP is willing to assume whatever responsibilities are necessary and enter the Government, although they will not form part of coalitions if it is to "deploy other parties' programs."

FERNÁNDEZ PRESCRIBES SÁNCHEZ AND PUIGDEMONT TO GO "HOME"

The PP candidate, Alejandro Fernández, has prescribed to the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the former president of the Generalitat and Junts candidate, Carles Puigdemont, to be decisive and "go home."

He said this at the PP campaign launch event in Castelldefels (Barcelona), in which the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, also participated; the MEP and president of the PP campaign for the Catalan elections, Dolors Montserrat, and the mayor of the municipality, Manu Reyes.

"That they do not hesitate, that they be decisive and that, if they both leave on Monday, they will have our full support and understanding," he ironically referred to Sánchez's letter in which he announced a period of reflection on his presidency, and to the statements of Puigdemont in which he assured that he will return to Catalonia whether or not he is sworn in as president but will not remain in the opposition.

The Vox candidate for the Catalan elections, Ignacio Garriga, has called on voters to use this May 12 "in self-defense of prosperity, of Catalonia's companies, of freedom and of quality education."

He said this in statements this Thursday before the Parliament on the occasion of the start of the campaign, where he assured that they are starting it with great enthusiasm and that this 12M is "a great opportunity to continue the path of opposition to separatism."

Garriga has said that Catalans "want to see their land prosper, to be able to go out into the streets safely without fear of being raped, being assaulted or seeing their houses occupied."

For her part, the Comuns candidate to preside over the Generalitat, Jéssica Albiach, has called on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to resist: "It is time to resist, it is time to endure, it is time to stand up to the right and the extreme right, to their lies and their mud".

He has assured that the Government is legitimate and has demanded "to put a limit on this right that has gone crazy", during the opening of the campaign in Reus (Tarragona), together with the number 1 for Tarragona, Yolanda López; 1 for Girona, Eloi Badia; 1 for Lleida, Elena Ferre, and 2 for Tarragona, Mario Téllez.

Albiach has also defended that Junts should be left out of the next Government, has committed not to agree with them after the elections, and has criticized that the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol has stated that he will vote for Junts: "If anyone had any doubts, Pujol has clarified it: Junts is the refoundation of Convergència."

Finally, the Cs candidate, Carlos Carrizosa, has defined his party as "the only loyal and consistent vote" against the independence movement, to which it is positioned as an alternative in the Catalan elections of May 12.

For him, Cs "truly protects the Catalans and is not going to betray anyone", as he believes that the PSC and the PP have done, he said this Thursday in statements to journalists together with the MEP Jordi Cañas (who heads the campaign and close the list) before the campaign starts at midnight.

Carrizosa is confident of obtaining representation in these elections after the survey by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), from which he highlighted that they obtained 3% of the votes in the province of Barcelona: "Be careful with the surveys. Furthermore, we have always beaten".