The unity of the left

UPF will host the event featuring Rufián and Montero, which UAB has rejected.

The ERC spokesperson in Madrid and the Podemos MEP will debate the unity of the left.

The Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, speaking with the spokesperson for ERC in Congress, Gabriel Rufián.
ARA
25/03/2026
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BarcelonaGabriel Rufián and Irene Montero have metApril 9th ​​in Barcelona to hold a joint eventThe event, moderated by Xavier Domènech, will serve to advocate for a left-wing front in the lead-up to the next general elections. It will finally take place at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), organizers announced on Wednesday. This will be the second stop on the tour of the ERC spokesperson in Madrid, who aims to convince the public and political parties that the best way to combat the far right is through electoral unity on the left.

Therefore, a university will host the talk, although another has declined to lend its facilities. As reported by ARA on Tuesday, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), with its campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès, declined the request because it only lends its spaces for "academic" events, sources from the university told this newspaper.

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