Barcelona primaries agree to promote a "blocking" candidacy for the November 10 elections.

BarcelonaThe Barcelona Primaries have agreed to promote a "blocking" list for the upcoming general elections on November 10. This decision was made through an internal consultation in which 3,000 people participated. Of the valid votes, 94.1% favored the blocking list and the other 5.9% favored abstention in these elections. The platform led by Jordi Graupera proposes creating a list through primaries open "to all citizens and pro-independence parties." Two of the central ideas of the candidacy would be to vote "no" in any presidential election in the Spanish government and to vote against the state budget.

Other points of the candidacy are that it would define itself as pro-independence, that it would consult via electronic vote the direction of the votes in the plenary session of Congress and that it would allocate the subsidies received by the groups represented in the lower house to an "anti-repression fund" to serve the "repressed separatist repression".

The spokesperson for Primarias Barcelona, ​​​​Jordi Graupera, has stated that the blocking list is also "an opportunity to promote a culture of 'no' to authoritarianism and the attempt by the State to subjugate the people of Catalonia, without the perverse incentives that the parties have." He also insisted that they will always maintain "their hand extended to anyone who accepts the fundamental principles of the primaries: democratization and independence of Catalonia."

For his part, Arnau Pont, coordinator of the Barcelona Primaries assembly, stated that it is an "explicit" invitation to all pro-independence forces, and in particular to those that had shown interest in the blockade, and called on them to sit down and negotiate this candidate. "Unity yes, but with primaries," he concluded.