• Elections The PP launches a takeover bid for Cs with the signing of Arrimadas's substitute

  • Elections .. The PP signs on the right hand of Manuel Valls

The former president of Fomento del Trabajo,

Joaquim Gay de Montellà

, will close the list of the PP for the Catalan regional elections, according to sources from the

popular

have advanced to EL MUNDO,

receiving the support of the former president of the Catalan employers' association between 2011 and 2018 , the PP continues to try to expand its electoral base and concentrate the vote of the constitutionalist center-right.The candidacy led by

Alejandro Fernández

trusts that this movement will allow it to regain support among the

Catalan business class, especially among the jaded with the

you process

and the controversial economic management that the Government of the Generalitat has carried out since the pandemic broke out.

popular

does not cease.

Last week they knocked on the table incorporating as

number two

from Fernández to

Lorena Roldan

, the candidate designated by

Albert rivera

to replace

Inés Arrimadas

after his march to Congress.

After being replaced by

Carlos Carrizosa

As president of Ciudadanos, Roldán decided to break the card of the orange formation and join the list of the PP. This signing was added last Monday by

Eva Parera

, right hand of

Manuel Valls

at the Barcelona City Council, which will appear as

Number Three

on the PP list as an independent.

Member of Barcelona pel Canvi, the candidacy with which the former French Prime Minister attended the Barcelona municipal elections in 2019, Parera was previously a member of Unió and Units per Avançar, the formation that was born from the ashes of the party

Christian Democrat

.

He also promoted the Lliga Democràtica, the project to re-found the Catalan center-right from which he ended up fleeing when he understood that he was seeking to re-found CDC with the incorporation of Gay de Montellà -contrary to the independence process, but defender of the fiscal pact-, of Roldán and Parera PP seeks to present itself as a space for constitutional communion, a role that Ciudadanos played in the 2017 elections, when Arrimadas achieved victory with its historic 36 seats.

Despite the sure emergence of Vox, the

popular

They try to convey an image of ambition, pointing out that their objective is to hunt down Citizens instead of avoiding being outmatched by the formation they lead

Santiago Abascal

The prospects for the PP are positive, the latest survey by the

Catalan CIS

He predicted that they will double their representation in the Parliament, but still standing five deputies below Ciudadanos, who would lose half of their parliamentarians.

The latest movements of the

popular

and the perennial presence of its president,

Pablo Casado

, in Catalonia seeks to influence this upward trend that allows to recover the lost ground with respect to the formation of Arrimadas in Catalonia and later complete the takeover bid for Citizens at the national level.

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