The Esquerra federation in Barcelona is preparing to open a new chapter after the rebellion that forced its leader, Creu Camacho, to resignThe party has already opened primaries to choose a new executive committee. An alternative candidacy joined the effort on Monday. to the one promoted by the current councilwoman Rosa SuriñachThis faction, which emerged from the ranks of critics of the national leadership, is led by a group of supporters of Oriol Junqueras and Elisenda Alamany, headed by Republican activists Ricard Farin and Núria Clotet, according to reports. The Newspaper and has confirmed ARA.

Elisenda Alamany (Sabadell, 1983) arrives at the ARA determined to raise the tone on the issue of funding, but also to launch her campaign as a mayoral candidate in 2027.

Oriol Junqueras began this weekend's congress with the image of internal peace he had been seeking for weeks. The core of his critics hadn't disappeared, but they had been demobilized after losing the first battle of the fall, when the Republican leader reclaimed the party presidency. However, the scandal over the posters against the Maragalls has once again sparked the realization that Esquerra is far from calm. The report of the truth commission promoted by Junqueras made critics explode This Saturday, which was described as a labor and considered a "mockery." At the closing ceremony of the congress this Sunday in Martorell, Junqueras avoided going into the internal situation of the organization. The Republican leader dedicated his speech to the international situation, especially to spur Republican militants to act as a dam against the far right, but he also took the opportunity to send a message to Junts. "It doesn't bother us when other political forces reach an agreement that increases the country's power share. We'll fight later about how it's implemented," he stated. In other words, the Republican leader asked the Junts members to to make a united front when negotiating with the State.

The Alzheimer's cartel scandal and the ERC B structure uncovered by the ARA The scandal that has shaken the party in recent months has done so again this Saturday at the Republicans' congress in Martorell. The Truth Commission, the body that urged Oriol Junqueras to investigate this issue in parallel with the work of the Compliance Officer and the Guarantees Committee, has presented its conclusions to the membership—without handing them the report, which it sent directly to the Guarantees Committee. The investigation, led by Joan Tardà, acknowledges that the party had a B structure in place from 2019 to 2023 that was responsible for producing the posters against the Maragall brothers, among others, and points to two people responsible: two of the party's deputy secretaries of communication during this period, Sergi Sabrià.

Salvador Illa has basically been missing two images since he took office in August: the meetings with the leader of the main opposition party, Carles Puigdemont, and the meeting with the president of ERC, whose formation his government depends on. This Saturday he has deleted the second from the list. Illa and Oriol Junqueras met in the Palau de la Generalitat for the first time in public, although contacts between them already existed in private, both before and after Junqueras revalidated the presidency of ERC last November.

Has Juntos made a mistake? retiring at the last minute of the motion of censure against the mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols? It is a question that does not have an easy answer.

The new company must be established on December 31 of this year. will manage the commuter rail service of Catalonia. It will be a joint Spanish-Catalan company, formed by the Spanish government and the Catalan government, with an equal board of directors and a president appointed on the proposal of the Catalan government and with a casting vote.

Before the bilateral infrastructure commission meeting on Monday afternoon, the Catalan Government and Esquerra wanted to publicly stage one of the agreements on the transfer of Cercanías that were signed hours later by the Catalan and Spanish executives. This is the timetable for having the new Cercanías operator ready: both parties have agreed that the company will be established before the end of 2025 and that, therefore, from 2026 it will already manage the entire railway system in Catalonia. The agreement was publicly announced by the regional minister for Territory, Silvia Paneque, and the general secretary of ERC, Elisenda Alamany, and was validated by the bilateral Infrastructure commission, headed by Paneque herself and the Secretary of State for Mobility and Transport, José Antonio Santano Clavero.

Today we publish an editorial whose title would not have been understood years ago, at least not with the typographic vehemence with which we have written it: