Rufián and Montero already have a date to hold their first pre-campaign event in Barcelona

BarcelonaThere is already a date for the first pre-campaign event for Gabriel Rufián and Irene Montero. The ERC candidate and the head of the Podemos list for the Spanish elections on November 29th will debut at a joint rally next Saturday, October 24th, in Barcelona. The event is the result of the collaboration agreement between their respective parties for the general elections, under which the 'lilac' party will not run in Catalonia and will support ERC, which includes members of Podemos as independents on its lists, while Rufián will hold campaign events with the former Minister of Equality in Spanish lands.

According to what Podemos has shared with a poster on social media, the event will take place at 12:00 PM at the Plaça Major in Nou Barris in the Catalan capital, under the slogan 'Home, life, future'. "This Saturday, October 24th, we will meet with Rufián in Nou Barris to defend that politics returns to the basics: Peace, home, work. That we end the housing business and lower the cost of living. We look forward to seeing you all!", wrote Montero on 'X'.

Both Montero and the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, argued on Saturday that the alliance with ERC is valuable and stressed that the differences with the Broad Front were due to political issues, not positions, and reproached this space for its proximity to the PSOE as reflected in the joint candidacies they will present for the Senate.

For his part, Rufián also apologized for the "ridicule" of the left ahead of the November 29 elections and urged his electorate to go out and vote "even if they are disillusioned or angry." At the same time, he defended the agreement with Podemos in statements to the press and assured that he "did not want to launch a takeover bid against anyone, this was not against anyone." In this sense, he stressed that he "would have loved for there to be a real Broad Front and for Podemos and the Broad Front to understand each other," but making it clear that his plan "was not that we had to be the same people with a different name" or that he "had to replace Yolanda Díaz".