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Júlia Calvet

, former president of

S'ha Abiertot!

, will be part of the

Vox

list for the Catalan elections on

May 12

.

Calvet, who will occupy sixth place in the candidacy for Barcelona led by the general secretary and vice president of the party,

Ignacio Garriga

, was until last January the top person in charge of the entity that emerged from a split of the youth of

Societat Civil Catalana

ago. more than five years, a period in which it has become one of the main groups opposed to the independence movement in Catalonia.

Calvet, who had held the position since October 2021, handed over the baton two months ago to

Andrea Llopart

, a member of the

New Generations

of the

PP

and, until then, vice president of the association. During her two-year tenure, she always chose to define S'ha Finish! as a "patriotic" entity instead of a "constitutionalist", a lexical choice in line with Vox's postulate. "You have to vindicate your homeland, there is nothing negative about it nor does it have to be associated with a certain political party," he told EL MUNDO last October, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the youth group.

Juan Carlos Girauta

Calvet is Vox's second media signing in recent days for

12-M

, after it was announced that

Juan Carlos Girauta

will symbolically close the party's ballot. In addition to his presence on the list for the Catalan elections, the former spokesperson for

Ciudadanos

has been recruited by the party chaired by

Santiago Abascal

for the

European elections on June 9

, in which he will occupy third place in the candidacy headed by the MEPs.

Jorge Buxadé

and

Hermann Tertsch

.

Vox entered the Catalan Parliament for the first time in 2021, where it is currently the

fourth force with 11 deputies

. Most polls predict that it will be difficult to surpass that electoral ceiling and that it would even lose some seats.

According to the polls, the PP, which is now the last group in the autonomous Chamber with only three representatives, would become the fourth group in the next legislature with a result that could reach 15 seats. The

popular ones

would be the great beneficiaries of the possible disappearance of Ciudadanos in the Parliament, where today it has six seats.

Sources from the national leadership of Vox define the candidacy in Catalonia as "exciting" and, despite the results of the surveys, assume that they will continue to be the leading force of the Spanish right in this region, thanks among other things to the incorporation profiles such as Calvet or Girauta, who, together with classic figures of the formation, convey "a message of unity" in the face of "the doubts generated by other parties."