TV3 This Tuesday, it hosted an electoral debate between the candidates of the eight main parties that aspire to preside over the Generalitat of Catalonia after the upcoming elections next Sunday. With moderators and a large part of the candidates speaking Catalan, the debate was attended by Pere Aragonés (ERC), Salvador Island (PSC)Jessica Albiach (Commons), Ignacio Garriga (VOX)Carlos Carrizosa (Ciudadanos) and Alejandro Fernández (PP), Josep Rull (Junts) and Laure Vega (CUP).
After the debate held in La Sexta yesterday Monday, in which positions were defined for next Sunday’s elections, all the parties attended TV3 for the last face-to-face session before the Catalan elections. On Illa’s part, it remains to be deciphered What will be your priorities when forming a Government? in case, as the polls suggest, he obtains victory. On the constitutionalist right, it remains to be deciphered which will be the fourth force, but the latest polls suggest that VOX would manage to maintain fourth position ahead of the Popular Party.
Ignacio Garriga has been the protagonist in much of the debate for his criticism of the loyalty shown by the rest of the parties towards the 2030 Agenda or your inaction with illegal immigration which is increasingly worrying more Catalans. One of the moments of the night was when she took out an “anti-rape spray.”
«I, in social policy, want to denounce that none of the candidates present here have made it clear what security policy, beyond appointmentsposes to the Catalans,” he noted.
«And the question is, Mr. Illa, are you going to avoid, with those social policies that characterize you, promoting this call effect? Are you going to do something about illegal immigration? “Are you going to continue making our neighborhoods more unsafe every day?” questioned the VOX candidate.
On the popular bench, Alejandro Fernandez He has assured that his party wants to be “decisive” after May 12, while the 3rd of Junts for Barcelona, Josep Rull, has refused to invest the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa.
Fernández has conditioned his support on ending the ‘procés’ and stopping making policies that involve first-class and second-class Catalans, he said this Tuesday in the electoral debate on TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio.
The Cs candidate, Carlos Carrizosa, has criticized PP and PSC for not closing the door to reaching an agreement with the independentists who “have done so much damage to Catalonia”, and has defended that it is time to open a new stage. The head of the VOX list, Ignacio Garriga has placed himself in the opposition: «We will stand up to the coup and socialism. “We will lead the opposition as we have done until now,” he stated.
The PSC candidate, Salvador Illahas urged the rest of the parties to clarify whether or not they will block his investitureand has revealed that it has a plan to return the headquarters of companies that left Catalonia in 2017. Jéssica Albiach (Comuns Sumar) has criticized Junts, whom he has calledand be the “refoundation of Convergència”and has assured that they will not agree with them because they are the right, according to her.
The president of the Generalitat and candidate of ERC, Pere Aragonéshas assured that will not accept the votes of the “extreme right” – “neither the Spanish nor the Catalan” – in reference to VOX and Aliança Catalanaand asked Rull if they also commit to the same thing.
The juntaire candidate has stated that his candidacy It will not agree “neither actively nor passively” with these formations because literally “they set respect for fundamental human rights as a limit for agreements.”
The candidate of the CUP, Laia Estradahas said that the desire for his training it would be to agree with ERC, Junts y Comuns to “retake” the social and own agenda of Catalonia and, at the same time, advance the secession ‘procés’.
