The leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, will run as the party's candidate for the next Catalan elections, as Catalunya Ràdio and The Newspaper and the ARA has been able to confirm. The Republican leader, who regained the presidency of the party in December of last year, will make it official this Tuesday at a conference in Barcelona under the title A new national ambitionUntil now, Junqueras had resisted confirming his intention to run in the next Catalan elections, because he maintained that he was currently still disqualified from running and that, even if he wanted to, he couldn't.

Straight after the second nine-way electoral debate, two of the main candidates for victory are already itching for a less crowded format that allows them to confront their projects directly. Catalan Republican Left (ERC) candidate Pere Aragonès suggested this option to the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) during the TVE debate, and this Monday their candidate Salvador Illa has picked up the gauntlet. "I have no problem debating with anyone who wants to debate with me," he said at a press conference organised by ACN. The socialists warn, however, that they will only do so in the event that it is authorised by the Central Electoral Board and this, in the past, has generated much controversy. In particular, due to the opposition of other parliamentary parties. This same Monday the JxCat candidate, Laura Borràs, the other party that the polls place as possible winner, has made a counterproposal: "The polls put JxCat in the lead for the first time and now there two gentlemen who want to capitalise on the debate. I propose to them: why don't we have a threesome?"

A group of TVE Catalunya professionals have expressed their dissatisfaction with how the state broadcaster will conduct the debate between candidates scheduled for this Sunday's prime time. For the first time, the debate will be held entirely in Spanish. There are also complaints that "he chosen moderator is not a RTVE Catalunya professional. There are professionals here who are more than qualified to perform the functions of moderator and who, in addition, are in daily contact with the Catalan social and political reality". In the letter to which ARA has had access, the staff stress that some of these journalists "have experience in programmes of this same format, both at Catalan and state level". The journalist Xabier Fortes is the one chosen to present the debate, but the signatories do not mention him because they do not want to question his professionalism.