Aliança Catalana wins a councilor in Santpedor who had gone to the Junts list

BarcelonaAliança Catalana will gain a councilor in Santpedor. This is Jordi Soteras, the party's number two in the Bages region, who had run on the Junts list but failed to win a seat. The resignation of one of their councilors in this municipality, Jordi Rojas, is what opened the doors of the town hall for Soteras, who is now part of the far-right pro-independence party, rather than Junts. as reported by Radio Santpedor. This has caused an uproar in Santpedor Town Hall, where the mayor, Agustí Comas (ERC), is demanding explanations from Junts or, at the very least, that they "recommend" that he not accept the position. The CUP warns that it will stand up to them and will not tolerate "the presence of an Aliança member who wasn't elected."

All of this came to light at Tuesday's municipal plenary session, when CUP councilor Rubén López demanded an explanation for the fact that, two months after Rojas' departure, linked to the breakdown of the municipal government with ERC in November, no one had yet taken possession of the vacant seat. It was then that Junts spokesperson Rosa Llobera explained that the next six people on the list had declined the position for professional or personal reasons, but that the seventh had accepted and would take office in February. When the CUP councilor asked who it was, Llobera confirmed it was Soteras. "The entire Junts leadership here in the town must give explanations, not just the councilwoman. We, as the CUP, will demand this. We, as antifascists, will not tolerate this situation," warned López.

The CUP councilman's words have already drawn a response from the organizing secretary of Aliança Catalana, Oriol Gès. In a message to X, he criticized the anticapitalist party's notion of "democracy": "Be careful, Rubén, lest in the next elections all your 'comrades' be from Aliança Catalana," he concluded. In Santpedor, the far-right pro-independence party did not win any council seats. the last electionsERC won, with 5 councilors, followed by the local candidacy Santpedor es otro mundo (4), the CUP (2) and Sumem per Santpedor-Junts (2).