Crisis in Vic: Alianza Catalana's possible candidate will be expelled by her party if she does not leave

BarcelonaElisenda Carrera will cease to be a councilor for Ara Vic. This was announced this Tuesday by Xavier Farrés, the other councilor of the Viga formation of the extinct PDECat, at a press conference at the town hall accompanied by other members of the party's executive. Her departure comes in response to rumors, as the ARA advanced, that place her as the possible candidate of Aliança Catalana in Vic in the next municipal elections. "Our patience has run out," says Farrés in conversation with the ARA.

The party's executive met with Carrera two weeks ago 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' 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. Farrés explains that they will ask her to return her seat and that if she does not, which seems possible, she will finish this last year of her term as a non-attached councilor. "The assembly's lack of confidence in her is ratified, her credit has run out," says the former CiU councilor, hurt, who assures that the decision is also shared by the leadership.

Junts, which governs in minority with the support of this party, has also demanded explanations. It is up to the Junts members whether Carrera continues in the municipal executive or not, although according to sources consulted, everything suggests that she will be expelled from the government and will cease to manage the portfolios of Cooperation, Civil Protection, Economic Activity and Employment. Her probable expulsion will also cause, as a consequence, Junts' municipal government to be even more in the minority, with eight representatives from their party and one from Ara Vic, in a town hall with 21 councilors. “The government is solid, coherent, and stable, and whatever happens with councilor Carrera, it will remain so,” Farrés made clear today. Be that as it may, the Junts members have reached agreements throughout the term with different formations,including SOMI

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

The more than likely signing of Carrera by Alianza is none other than the umpteenth move by the Islamophobic party to sound out mayors and councilors from Junts and the PDECat brand to lead their lists in the next municipal elections. The objective is to make room in the post-convergence space to obtain experienced cadres who can build strong candidacies to paint the territory blue in the local elections.