Catalan Alliance already has a candidate in Barcelona

BarcelonaAliança Catalana already has a candidate in Barcelona. He is a "man and he is known", as the party leader, Sílvia Orriols, said in February, but he is not the media personality that the publicist Lluís Carrasco, presumably, was referring to. The candidate for the Catalan capital is Jordi Aragonès (Pineda de Mar, 1993), as party sources have confirmed, and he will be presented this afternoon at the El Born Cultural Centre. The Islamophobic party has had to resort to plan B after offers to Carrasco himself, to Sandro Rosell, to Jaume Giró and, ultimately, to Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas failed.

Alliance, therefore, opts for a heavyweight of the party, its number 3, in its assault on Barcelona, where all the polls published so far give it representation. Aragonès, cousin of former president Pere Aragonès, is one of the party's founders and has been secretary of studies and programs since the beginning, after being a member of UDC. Ideologue of Aliança, he is the one who outlines the discourse and strategy to follow. Along with the organization secretary, Oriol Gès, he is the best-known face of the party, apart from, obviously, Orriols.

A historian and secondary school teacher, Aragonès has a clearly liberal and anti-immigration profile, as he already made clear last week by attacking Pope Leo XIV to claim Catalonia as a country of welcome. He has also put Rhodesia as an example to achieve independence. What is now Zimbabwe was an unrecognized state, governed by a white minority, which emerged when it unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965 to avoid a black majority government with the end of colonization. With its candidacy, Alliance wants to make a dent among the wealthy classes of the capital, especially among Junts voters, with whom it has more border votes and whose breakthrough is more costly, according to all polls.