Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Monday, March 25, 2024-18:17
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After several months threatening to present a candidacy to enter Parliament, the ultranationalist party
Aliança Catalana
has confirmed its intention to run in the elections on
May 12
. This was announced last night by
Sílvia Orriols
, mayor of
Ripoll
(Girona), in a video broadcast on social networks in which she encourages "punishment at the polls" for those who "have third-worldized Catalonia" and "have allowed and normalized recidivism and Islamism." ".
The far-right pro-independence formation today began collecting endorsements for its
12-M
candidacy in different locations in the region. According to electoral regulations, it is necessary to have 0.1% of the census to appear in each of the four Catalan provinces. Therefore, to have a presence on the ballots in Barcelona, Aliança Catalana needs a minimum of 4,279 endorsements, while in Girona there are 554, in Tarragona 604 and in Lleida 319.
With the slogan "Save Ripoll", which it now intends to turn into "Save Catalonia", Aliança Catalana won the
municipal elections
in this town of almost 11,000 inhabitants on
May 28
and Orriols became mayor when the cordon sanitaire that initially failed opposition groups raised after the elections.
The leader of the ultra-conservative party defined her victory at the polls, with 30.8% of the votes and six councilors out of 17, as "a posthumous tribute to the victims of the
17-A attack
" and a position "in favor of the West." and against Islamic fundamentalism". Orriols was thus referring to the terrorist attack of August 2017 in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona), perpetrated by young people from Ripoll with Maghreb ancestry.