• PCR. Illa refuses to take a test

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In a campaign in which

Salvador Illa

had acted on the defensive and with a low profile, avoiding direct confrontation and trying not to make mistakes, to let the "Illa effect", driven by Monclovite propaganda, comfortably lead him to victory next Sunday, his refusal to take an antigen test before the TV3 debate has placed him at the center of controversy.

It is his first slip before the 14-F, to which is added an unexpected sanitary cordon signed by all the pro-independence parties, by committing not to agree to a government with Illa whatever the correlation of forces after the elections.

This document unintentionally promotes the candidacy of the PSC leader, which since the beginning of the campaign has tried to establish itself as the only possible alternative to independence.

Regarding the controversy over its possible secret vaccination, this began when of the eight candidates summoned on Tuesday night to the debate of the regional channel, only Illa refused to take the test of a "rapid PCR", a common practice to participate in many television programs and gatherings.

This unexpected rejection, which annoyed the rest of the participants and their teams, transpired yesterday morning and was used both by the independence movement and by the rest of the parties to speculate on the reasons for a refusal that is even more surprising in the case of a former minister of Health.

"What will be the real reason why Mr. Illa did not take the Covid detention test? Does he have something to hide?", Wrote the former president of Congress

Ana Pastor

. "It seems legitimate to ask if Illa has been vaccinated" , raised the MEP of Cs

Jordi Cañas

. "Illa follows the same criteria as when she did not recommend the use of a mask.

The worst minister in Europe, "said the leader of JxCat,

Elsa Artadi

.

Ciudadanos went even further and through its candidate

José María Espejo

asked in writing in Congress if Illa or any other member of the Government has been vaccinated today, despite the fact that they are not among the groups to receive it at this time.

The party led by

Inés Arrimadas

was, thus, the one that most clearly stated that the former minister had secretly received the vaccine and therefore dodges the antigen tests so that his antibodies are not detected.

A hypothesis that Illa categorically denied.

First, he alleged that that morning he had gone to TV3 and no one told him "that I should take an exam."

Then, he added that "PCR tests are not done on a whim and health protocols do not advise testing in this context and under these conditions."

The PSC also issued a statement stating that it will be vaccinated "when it is due by age group as established in the vaccination protocols," without managing to stop a controversy that has become Illa's only slip in the campaign.

And even Minister

Miquel Iceta

acted as a fire extinguisher, summarizing the assumptions that Illa accepted: not having symptoms and not having had close contact with an infected person.

To this controversy was added an unexpected independence movement.

All the nationalist candidates participating in the elections, with the exception of Pere Aragonès, who delegated Sergi Sabriá, ERC's parliamentary spokesman, for "agenda problems", signed a document from the Catalan entity for Independence - made up of former leaders of the ANC- in which they promise to stand up to those "responsible for the repression" and not agree to a government with Illa.

A kind of sanitary cordon, although of relative value as it is the document of an unknown entity, which helps the PSC candidate in his attempt to polarize the campaign with the independentistas.

SÁNCHEZ AND AYUSO

In this objective, Illa once again had Sánchez's presence in an act in which the deceased

Carmen Chacón

was remembered

and the female vote was appealed to win on 14-F.

"If the ballot boxes are filled with women's votes, the president will be Illa," said the PSOE leader, replicated hours later by a woman who is not exactly part of Salvador's fan club.

"Sánchez will abandon Catalonia after the elections as he did with the pandemic," the president of the Madrid community,

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

,

warned

at a meeting with the PP candidate,

Alejandro Fernández

.

The man of the day after his performance in the debate on the Catalan public channel achieved something unprecedented among constitutionalist leaders: the highly nationalistic audience of TV3 considered him the most brilliant and convincing candidate.

Although the most devastating diagnosis was pronounced in the

off campaign

.

The former governor of the Bank of Spain

Luis María Linde

, in an event organized by Societat Civil, put figures on the decline of Catalonia: "the fall in GDP is the most intense of all the autonomies and close to 75% of its public debt corresponds to the Autonomous Liquidity Funds ".

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