Crisis in Vic: Aliança Catalana's possible candidate leaves her party and becomes an unaffiliated councilor

BarcelonaElisenda Carrera is no longer a councilor for Ara Vic. The Vic City Council reported this Wednesday that the Ara Vic councilor has formally requested to leave the political group and become a non-attached councilor. The decision comes the day after Xavier Farrés, the other councilor for the Vigatan formation of the defunct PDECat, announced that they would expel her if she did not leave the council, at a press conference in the consistory accompanied by other members of the party's executive. Her departure comes in response to rumors, as advanced by el ARA, which place her as the possible candidate for Aliança Catalana in Vic in the next municipal elections. "Expulsion no longer makes sense because it was her decision to leave the group," Farrés states in conversation with el ARA.

The party's executive met two weeks ago with Carrera to ask her to issue a public statement denying, if they were not true, the information suggesting she would be the candidate for the far-right formation, but she has not done so. And this Tuesday they had also summoned her to publicly close ranks with her party and dispel doubts about her possible incorporation into Sílvia Orriols's formation, but she also declined to attend.

Given her silence, Ara Vic has understood that Carrera will associate with Aliança Catalana and has decided to expel her from the group. "We cannot continue like this, the deadline cannot be

sine die

and it has already expired," the party leader tells this newspaper. "The lack of confidence of the assembly in her is ratified, her credit has run out," states the former councilor of CiU, hurt, who assures that the decision is also shared by the leadership.

Following her departure, the mayor, Albert Castells, has delegated the responsibilities she held until now to Farrés, who will now assume the promotion of economic activity and Employment, Cooperation, and Civil Protection. Her expulsion also causes, indirectly, the municipal government of Junts to be even more in the minority, with eight representatives from their party and one from Ara Vic, in a council with 21 councilors. “The government is solid, coherent, and stable and, whatever happens with councilor Carrera, it will remain so,” Farrés made clear on Tuesday. Be that as it may, the Junts members have reached agreements throughout the term with different formations,including with SOMI

, Josep Anglada's xenophobic party, and they have weathered the situation.

The more than possible signing of Carrera by Alianza is nothing more than the umpteenth move by the Islamophobic party to sound out mayors and provincial deputies and those from the PDECat brand to lead their lists in the next municipal elections. The objective is to make room in the post-convergent space to secure experienced cadres who can build strong candidacies to paint the territory blue in the local elections.