End of the battle in the Council of the Republic: Comín or Domingo?

BarcelonaToni Comín, Jordi Domingo, Montserrat Duran and Antoni Walter Castelló. These are the four candidates who aspire to replace Carles Puigdemont at the head of the Council of the Republic. Only the first three have a chance of assuming the presidency because Castellón is running without a team or support and with the sole objective of claiming the Països Catalans. The last word is up to those registered in the entity, who have until nine o'clock on Wednesday morning to decide who they want to lead the entity. Three hours later the winner will be known.

Comín, who was the clear favourite to take over the leadership of the Consell months ago, has had a long campaign. Very long. After being accused of irregularities for payments that he passed off as expenses of the Consell, at the beginning of the campaign, the former rapper Valtónic, with whom he shared exile and who was responsible for IT donations to the Consell, accused him of having transferred money to his account.

As if that were not enough, in the middle of the campaign, a former advisor to Junts denounced him in the European Parliament for sexual and psychological harassment. Despite defending the legitimacy of his candidacy as an exile, Comín no longer has the support of Puigdemont, who demanded that he will withdraw from the race, upset by his controversial management of the Council. Nor from the former councillor Lluís Puig, who announced his support for Jordi Domingo's candidacy.

The only positive news for Comín has been the support of one of the candidates, the also Majorcan Lluís Felipe Lorenzo, who has stepped aside, although he received less support in the previous elections. More relevant has been the endorsement of the president of the ANC, Lluís Llach, who has defended his "honesty" after insinuating that the accusations against Comín are for torpedoing his candidacy, which has caused internal unrest in the entity he presides.

Defeating him at the polls is what the lawyer and former maritime consul Jordi Domingo, the candidate of the management board that they went to look for as a jurist, wants to achieve. He is betting on starting new fire and considers that "Comín is not the appropriate person" to preside over the entity due to his management and direct link with Junts. Beyond Puig's support, Domingo also received the blessing of Neus Torbisco, who was responsible for international action at the Consell, and saw as another of the candidates outsiders, the councillor for primaries in Canet de Mar, Jordi Castellà, joined their candidacy.

Montserrat Duran, candidate of the less pro-government local councils, seeks to make a place for herself in the fight between Comín and Domingo with her grassroots work. Running as a non-presidential collective candidacy of Council members and representatives of local councils, Duran maintains that her list is the only non-partisan one. RevolucionemNos has received the support of different personalities such as the historic pro-independence activist Blanca Serra, the former councillors of the previous Consell government Montserrat Corrons and M. Antònia Font, the repressed Roger Español, the Catalan language institute professor, influencer and member of Koiné Josep Maria Virgili and the comedian and former comedian and former comedian.