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In the midst of the electoral dispute that will be fought in Spain on November 10, Catalonia will live a particular battle for leadership in the left bloc. ERC, the PSC and the commons - to which More Country and the CUP join this meeting - want to wear the most voted party dress in this community and, therefore, legitimize Madrid's speech and strategy in the conflict Catalan as a priority route. The Catalan socialists see themselves as possibilities of being the hegemonic force and advancing ERC. Meanwhile, the landing of More Country in Catalonia has aroused a battle between Ada Colau and Íñigo Errejón that can further fragment the space to the left of the PSOE.

The PSC stroked April 28 to be the most voted force, but finally there were seconds left. That day in Moncloa , when at two in the afternoon the first participation data were known, they assumed that the result of the PSC was going to be extraordinary. Subsequent analyzes pointed to the fact that the enormous mobilization had also helped Republicans. Now, with a post-sentence election of the process , participation can favor independence but, for the first time, according to government and PSC sources, there is an element that can limit its growth. The CUP is presented to the generals, something unprecedented that, according to the Socialists, can erode Esquerra .

The Republicans were the most voted force in April and they hope to be able to establish themselves again in an authorized voice of Catalonia in Congress, the role of having the largest number of ballots. In recent months they have opted for a more moderate speech in Madrid. Gabriel Rufián, his parliamentary spokesman, has lowered the tone, opted for a PSOE-United Government We can ... And in the Parliament it was striking that the Vice President of the Government , Pere Aragonès -as spearhead of all ERC-, did not shout " freedom "nor did he applaud when the rest of the independence bloc, with Quim Torra in the lead, jelly to the members of the CDR detainees accused of terrorism. Still, rigid, not a grimace. Marking distances, trying to add in this battle for the electorate.

The independentist formations, less ERC, with Pere Aragonés with Quim Torra, applaud to recognize the CDR accused of terrorism.SANTI COGOLLUDO

Socialists perceive that modulation, but work convinced that they can reach the top spot and overcome ERC. They do not dare to quantify the figures of this improvement because, they argue, it is too early and there will be no reliable surveys until the same week of the elections. They remain convinced that they can also vote for citizens in Catalonia, although they recognize that what happens in this community can also resurrect Albert Rivera with his anti-independence speech. On his left, the amalgam that the commons represent and Íñigo Errejón's party does not disturb them. They believe that Podemos, and by extension Ada Colau , will not be able to maintain its equidistance in the political and social upheaval after the sentence.

And the gap that Errejón could try to occupy has been greatly reduced with the election of a candidate with a sovereignist profile that is not attractive to the PSC voter. The socialists have launched themselves to highlight precisely this: the head of the More Country for Barcelona cartel, the political scientist Juan Antonio Geraldes , was presented on the lists of the CUP. His number one to Congress , the current president of the Meritxell Batet Chamber, evidenced it in one act: both Jaume Asens , the candidate of the commons and Geraldes, are "two candidates more concerned with identity issues than with leftist policies: both are independentistas! "

In the space to the left of the PSOE the tension has risen decibels with the irruption of More Country. Colau and the main leaders of the commons maneuvered to prevent their landing in Catalonia. They conveyed the message that if the formation of Íñigo Errejón wanted to leave the door open to some future understanding, everything went through not competing with them in these elections. Even errejonistas voices like Jèssica Albiach , leader of the commons in the Parliament, warned Errejón to give up. Colau herself has accused Errejón of causing "more noise and more fragmentation." "Progressive people ask for unity, not fragmenting more. Their proposals are already represented by Catalonia in Comú Podem in Catalonia and by United We Can in Spain," said the mayor, with no intention of hiding her anger and predisposition to confrontation.

Pedro Sánchez talks with the first secretary of the Catalan socialists, Miquel Iceta, during a political event in Barcelona. Quique García

Errejón has not sided because the strategists of Más País considered it vital to appear for Barcelona in their claim to have their own group in Congress. This province is the second most distributed deputies with 32. Therefore, they see it as a safe trick to add seats and votes.

The Errejón movement has angered Colau. The mayor of Barcelona, ​​with a party that bets on sovereignty and defends the referendum agreed as a solution, intended to reconstruct the role that the last general elections took away from her: to be the valid interlocutor in Catalonia, the intermediary with the independentists. If in 2016 the proposal of the commons received the majority support, in April of this year they collapsed as a third option, behind ERC and PSC - they passed 12 deputies and 24.5% of the votes to 7 seats and 14 , 8% of the votes. The speech that his dialogue project for Catalonia had the backing of citizens vanished. His effort is to rebuild it and, for that, a good result at the polls is key. Sample of the tension in the left is that the rifirrafes are not only with Errejón, but in the last months leaders of United We have had intense dialectical discussions with Rufián.

The ambiguity before the process , the winks of the Consistory to the leaders in prison - yellow tie included -, the defense of the existence of "political prisoners", the definition of 1-O as a "legitimate exercise" and the friction generated by their postulated with efforts by the national leadership of Podemos to measure his words have caused wear. For example, in the negotiation to form a government with the PSOE, Vice President Carmen Calvo repeatedly referred to the sovereign positions of Jaume Asens , spokesman for the commons in Congress and the one who strengthened his commitment to the referendum while Iglesias was resigning to the.

"Errejón has rushed," Colau said a few days ago. "It is not a good idea," he said in a message to a good listener. "We regret that the tacticism of those sectors of More Country that wanted to present themselves without having a project for Barcelona, ​​for Catalonia, and just for having votes for Madrid," Asens completed. Colau has worked in recent years to be the only alternative to the PSOE. He managed to nullify Podemos in Catalonia, doubled his pulse to Iglesias to have hands free to make and break lists and his claim was to stay, with the push of being mayor, as a reference for a "space of unity and sum from diversity."

Íñigo Errejón, during the presentation of the candidacy of Més Barcelona for the 10-N elections, headed by Juan Antonio Geraldes. Quique García EFE

The emergence of Errejón is a mine in its path. Not only because it implies the appearance of a new progressive ballot and the consequent threat of loss of votes, but because the election of his candidate for Barcelona, ​​Juan Antonio Geraldes, a stranger with "leave independence" who allied with the CUP in a candidacy local, competes with that sovereignist bet that wants to be a bridge between secessionists and Madrid.

And this despite the fact that Errejón's plan was to present a less sovereignist project than Colau's. The former leader of Podemos modulated his speech to demarcate from Iglesias and was now betting on first reaching a political agreement between the Catalan parties and then submitting it to a referendum. That is, a statutory reform like the one requested by the PSOE and the PSC, without a consultation for independence. But the commitment to Geraldes causes distortion, confusion between a sector on the left.

The fifth actor in discord, who does not bid for high levels, but can scratch votes, is the CUP . The radical formation attends for the first time to the general elections and justifies it in the "exceptionality in repressive terms" that, in his opinion, lives Catalonia. Its presence on 10-N is not a cause of great concern on the left, but it does add a new notch in the fragmentation, so a further drain through which a vote can go can cause an electoral injury.

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