The first councilor of Aliança Catalana in Manlleu breaks his membership card

BarcelonaRoger Saborit breaks with Aliança Catalana. The first councilor the Islamophobic party had in Manlleu has decided to part ways with Sílvia Orriols' party. Saborit already resigned his council seat last May and ceded his position toa well-known Espanyol supporterJordi Rierola, from the municipality, cited work-related reasons (he works as a truck driver) for leaving the City Council, but there are other reasons behind his departure. Saborit himself explains, having contacted ARA to explain what prompted him to leave the party. "I'm leaving Alianza because of the lack of involvement and communication, and the internal sabotage," summarizes the former councilor from the city of Osona. Saborit explains that the party's lack of support when he was a councilor upset him. "They abandoned me. Once I won the council seat, they left me when I needed support, and I had to deal with it all on my own when, with my trucking job, I didn't have the time." He reveals that they assigned him an external assistant to prepare the paperwork, but that the assistant was remote and he couldn't always count on him when he needed him. "I expected much more support, and when I called or wrote to Silvia (Orriols) with a question, she wouldn't answer the phone or reply," he laments. This is especially concerning given his crucial role in hastily putting together the candidacy: "We created a Frankenstein list. From number 3 onwards, they were acquaintances we convinced to join in order to reach the 21 people needed, and half of them got on the list because of me." The difficulties in forming a candidacy for the second most important municipality in Osona are now recurring, and, as ARA reported, Management is considering not doing it if they can't find peopleThe final straw was the drawing up of the lists, but for the Catalan Parliament. Saborit claims that the party leadership initially offered him the number 3 spot for Barcelona, ​​but ultimately moved him down to sixth. "If you're deeply involved in a project and then see that they're not counting on you, it's disappointing," he says. He was one of the party's first members. In fact, he was member number 33, and now the party has 2,500 members after entering Parliament: "It was a coincidence that I got that number," he says, referring to the fact that it symbolizes the Catalan "Catalunya" that the far-right separatists defend, alluding to the third letter of the alphabet.

Disillusioned, he says he joined the party because of Manlleu and Catalonia, but is leaving disappointed with the leadership. "I jumped in the pool without knowing if there was water," he admits. With his departure, there are no longer any councilors left, apart from those he won in Ripoll, who were elected in 2023. The other councilor he won in Ribera de Ondara, Albert Puig, ended up leaving the party and the council after the leadership distanced itself from him due to some statements he made.in which he labeled the LGBTI community a "cancer".Puig's ties, who even became interim mayor, with the members of the candidacy meant that the number 2 became an independent councilor and that the Aliança project ended up dying in this town in the Segarra region.