PDECat is rushing its last shot by selecting Espai CiU and Roger Montañola as candidates

“It’s the last bullet, if we don’t go by this time it will get more difficult.” In PDECat they know that the future will be partly at stake at the polls, and they will do it with the trump card of Roger Montagnola as a candidate and with the Espai CiU brand and the open appeal of the policies of Convergència i Unió – proof of this is that on Thursday the group went to Montserrat where the Convergència Democràtica (1974) was founded. All this, however, with a tone more liberal than that of the National Union that led the Generalette for 23 years in a row with Jordi Pujol and another five with Artur Maas, who now supports Juntz.

David Bonfihy’s formation competes with 100% of the electoral rights of the JxCat coalition for 2019, but in 2021, in the parliamentary elections, this advantage is not beneficial to them: despite having more than 70,000 votes with former minister Angels Chacon as leader and holding the rights, they remain an extra-parliamentary force.

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With these wickers, the fear in the party is to stay back at the gates of getting representation. If they do not get seats in the Chamber of Deputies, they know that everything will be more complicated in the future because they will not have electoral rights or guaranteed spaces in the media field in the next electoral appointments, although they have more than 180 members and five mayors spread throughout the Catalan geography with the local Ara coalition.

Under the banner of Espai CiU, this time several representatives from the diaspora who caused the CDC blind cut seven years ago, some in a more energetic way than others. Whatever the case, the space of the Catalan and moderate center that he tried to express several times after October 2017, a force that can bring together supporters of independence and supporters of non-independence, now has the opportunity to ring the bell, raise its head and lay the foundations for continuity and growth.

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The fact that Yones has Miriam Nogueiras as a candidate instead of another candidate who dropped out of the primary race, Jaume Giroud, plays in favor of those of Bonfihi, who understand that with the former minister they will be more difficult. He is opposed to the election of the candidate, Montagnola, which happened at the last minute and without being able to promote and identify with the brand in a timely manner, despite being known for his time as a CiU vice president and his side as a commentator in various media outlets.

Of the Catalan forces, only the PDECat is willing to negotiate with both the PP and the PSOE, under the slogan “we will do politics” and demand “respect for Catalonia and browse the cash register”, with Vox as the only red line that aligns with the popular.

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With Montagnola at the helm, the nomination concludes the process and calls a return to the peix al cove years, with declarations such as “peix al cove is better than res al cove (Better fish in the basket than nothing in the basket) or “Puta i Ramoneta is better than procés”.

In addition, the formation calls for tax cuts in Catalonia and calls for a formal system similar to that of Euskadi and Navarra for Catalonia in reforming the regional finance system, to put an end to fiscal deficits.

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There are those who believe that the speech being made now should have taken place at the time PDECat and Waterloo were going through a divorce, in the summer of 2020, but the relations were still very much alive and the prisoners of the process were still behind bars.

The will expressed by Montagnola is that no matter what happens, Espai CiU will move forward, but without resources, it is difficult to survive in the political jungle. Entering the House will be a new cartridge, an oxygen balloon.

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