Final verdict: Junts decides its candidate in Barcelona
The membership votes from this Saturday among four names: Jordi Martí, Glòria Freixa, Pilar Calvo and Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas
BarcelonaJunts votes this weekend for its candidate in Barcelona. The party has been forced into primaries that the leadership wanted to avoid, and finally, the membership will choose between four names: Jordi Martí Galbis, Glòria Freixa, Pilar Calvo, and Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas. Throughout this Saturday and Sunday, members can vote online for the person they want to become the mayoral candidate for the Catalan capital. The results will be known on Sunday afternoon: at 7:30 PM, a press conference is scheduled with the party's Secretary General, Jordi Turull, alongside the winner.
asked to avoid in an interview with ARA: would it have been a plebiscite for Puigdemont?
The current deputy and secretary of the Parliament's bureau, Glòria Freixa, also made her move. Calvo tried to recruit her to reduce competition in the primaries. But her attempt failed. Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, a former deputy and former lawyer for Carles Puigdemont, was the last to put himself forward, even though everyone took it for granted that he would run. In recent days, a part of the leadership has tried to convince him to abandon the race, as he himself has explained. These attempts have not succeeded.
Beyond Barcelona, these primaries will have national implications. If the candidate closest to the leadership is Calvo, what will happen if she doesn't win? Internally, there will be an attempt to avoid a possible interpretation that Cuevillas asked to avoid in an interview with ARA: will it have been a plebiscite on Puigdemont?