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Alliance dismisses its candidate in Figueres for maintaining a romantic relationship with a 16-year-old student

Ivan Sànchez Clivillé — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:54:35 +0000

The governing committee of Aliança Catalana has unanimously agreed this Sunday, in a meeting held at ten in the morning, to "withdraw confidence" in Arnau Liesa as the party's candidate for Figueres City Council and to initiate the procedures for his expulsion from the formation. As reported by the party in a statement, the decision was made after learning of a "personal situation" which, it asserts, had not been previously communicated and which it considers "incompatible with the foundational principles" of the political project. The committee adds that, once the decision was communicated, Liesa "has opted to voluntarily disassociate himself from the party," a fact that the party "appreciates".

Aliança Catalana already has a candidate for the capital: "We are the party of Catalan Barcelona"

Xavi Tedó — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:09:33 +0000

Aliança Catalana already has a candidate in Barcelona. He is "a man and he is known", as the party leader, Sílvia Orriols, said in February, but he is not the media personality she was presumably referring to, the publicist Lluís Carrasco. The mayoral candidate in the Catalan capital is Jordi Aragonès (Pineda de Mar, 1993), who presented his candidacy this afternoon at El Born Cultural Centre, with about 200 militants from all over the country. The Islamophobic formation had to resort to plan B after offers to Carrasco himself, Sandro Rosell, Jaume Giró and, as a last resort, Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas failed.

Jordi Aragonès, one of the two candidates of Catalan Alliance in Barcelona

Xavi Tedó — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:02:59 +0000

The government committee of Aliança Catalana is made up of six people: Sílvia Orriols, Oriol Gès, Jordi Aragonès, Lluís Areny, Aurora Fornos and Franc Massaneda. From this hard core of the party, the candidate for Barcelona in the municipal elections will most likely emerge. Areny is the most likely to be the mayoral candidate in the Catalan capital, according to what ARA has learned, although Aragonès could also be. "Right now there is an 80% chance that Areny will be the candidate," say sources from the formation.

Aliança Catalana admits it does not find a candidate for Barcelona

Xavi Tedó — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:35:37 +0000

Two months ago, at a conference at Fòrum Europa Tribuna Catalunya, journalists asked Sílvia Orriols if they already had a candidate for Barcelona, and the leader of Aliança Catalana said yes. "He is a man and he is known," the head of the far-right party limited herself to saying. She did this while looking at the table where other members of the leadership and the party were seated, emphasizing that she could not say anything more until Sant Jordi's Day, when it had been agreed to present the candidate for the Catalan capital. However, the presentation of the candidate has been postponed and will not take place next week. Orriols herself announced this on Thursday in Parliament, admitting that the person they had "entrusted" to be the candidate "has gone back on their word".

"We have less influence in Europe than we had ten years ago"

Esther Vera — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:22:03 +0000

Not even a week ago Salvador Illa (La Roca del Vallès, 1966) ceased to be Minister of Health to be the candidate of the PSC on the 14-F elections. Therefore, it is still inevitable to ask him about the management of the pandemic.