Gabriel Rufián has launched the ERC campaign from the port of Tarragona before around 900 people, with a direct attack on Junts. The republican candidate urges independentist voters not to feel represented by Puigdemont's party.
According to eldebate.com, the ERC candidate has accused Junts of playing into the hands of the right and becoming a "collaborator of Abascal." The event took place at the port of Tarragona before around 900 people, and the message was aimed at attracting followers of Carles Puigdemont who do not identify with his party.
Rufián has urged Junts to return to common sense and has defined their formation as the "wild Catalan right." According to him, Junts imitates Sílvia Orriols and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and he reproached them for their votes against housing decrees, which he believes harm half a million Catalans.
"There is no correct way to be Catalan, we embrace everyone."
With this speech, the candidate is also seeking leftist voters who are not independentists. He has appealed to social justice, democracy, freedom, and anti-fascism, and has revived figures like Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys.
On the national level, Rufián has warned that a PP and Vox majority, which could exceed 210 deputies, could push for constitutional changes. He has demanded that the next government of Pedro Sánchez be "subjected" to the leftist sovereign forces and has criticized the PSC for dissolving into the PSOE in Madrid.
"We cannot act as if it does not affect us."
The ERC spokesperson in Congress has also highlighted security and recidivism among the issues the party must address, beyond independence. Before him, the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, had joked that Junts is lost in the Indian Ocean between ERC and Vox.
The party leadership has supported the campaign launch with the presence of Elisenda Alamany and several candidates from the list. ERC aims to improve on the seven seats it obtained in the general elections of 2023, and polls from the Centre for Opinion Studies give them between ten and eleven deputies.
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