The PP maintains the unknown of its candidate in Barcelona
“There are no white blackbirds”, they say in the executive of the Catalan PP, so, ruling out the option that Josep Bou repeat as a candidate, the party will look on its bench to decide who will be the candidate for mayor of Barcelona, where the popular ones risk their chances of victory in the general elections at the end of the same year. Without coming back in Catalonia, the Galician Alberto Núñez Feijóo will not reach Moncloa.
Under the secrecy imposed from Genoa, which has the last word in the provincial capitals, there are several names that circulate, but none of them has the express support of the regional committee, which after the leak that Daniel Sirera would be the investee, information that was denied after being made public, walks with lead feet.
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And if Sirera wants to continue as chief of staff of the Valencian Carlos Mazón, who aspires to unseat Ximo Puig from the presidency of the Generalitat, Dolors Montserrat, the other heavyweight of the Catalan PP that has been considered to secure entry into the City Council, she feels very comfortable in her role as spokesperson in the European Parliament.
If Dolors Montserrat, a profile that could connect with the “constitutionalist Catalanism” that the new national leadership of the PP wants to promote in order to stop being residual in a community that elects 45 deputies to Congress, is reluctant to leave Brussels, Fernando Sánchez Costa considers as a possible trigger.
After presiding over the Catalan Civil Society (SCC) for almost three years, until last April, Sánchez Costa has reaffiliated with the PP, a party in which he was a deputy in the Parliament from 2012 to 2017. Specialist historian in the Republic, he He recalls his good role as a speaker from the platform of the Catalan Chamber and in SCC, highlighted by his conciliatory spirit and his ability to achieve transversal agreements between parties and constitutional entities.
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However, his repentance to return to the popular ranks works against him, since in Urgell Street, the party’s headquarters in Barcelona, they are now very reluctant to adventure with newcomers and want to exploit the consolidated quarry.
That same handicap faces Lorena Roldán, who joined the PP a year ago after having been ousted as a Ciudadanos candidate for the Generalitat in a dark maneuver by the orange dome and was Alejandro Fernández’s number two in the last autonomic elections. Marked by that experience, she Roldán smiles when she is asked if she would be excited to be the popular mayor and if there have been conversations about it, and she limits herself to affirming that she is very focused on what really happened in Parliament .
Thus, sources from Genoa assure that there is already a candidacy that “everyone will support”, but they do not want to reveal it before all the provincial congresses conclude. And the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, postponed the announcement of the candidates from all over Spain to “before Christmas”. “How long do you trust me!” nervous applicants might say.
A space with too many occupants
The electoral space that goes from the center to the extreme right in Barcelona, which in its day exclusively capitalized on the PP, will be highly contested in the next municipal elections. If there are no coalitions, something that at the moment all those involved rule out, Ciudadanos, Valents and Vox will fight with the popular ones to gain a foothold in the Saló de Cent in Plaça Sant Jaume. But not everyone will be able to obtain the minimum of 5% of the votes that allow them to enter the Great House and some will undoubtedly be left out.