Aliança Catalana (AC) was founded in Ripoll in 2020. Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC) was founded in Vic in 2002. Two decades later, the parties of Silvia Orriols and Josep Anglada, who has now rebranded as Som Identitaris (SOMI), could face each other at the polls in Vic. The two leading figures of the Catalan far right, head to head.

In Vic, the far right does not govern, but it has representation in the council. Josep Anglada returned to the town hall in the 2023 elections and has managed to gain political relevance after moderating his tone this term (despite some public confrontation with the CUP). To the point that his two votes are decisive for Junts, which holds the mayor's office, to win votes. The mayor, Albert Castells, shuns sanitary cordons and claims to be able to negotiate and reach agreements with everyone. "It doesn't work," he says. "As mayor, I demand that the same thing I do in Vic be done in the Parliament, confront ideas and go issue by issue and not act as a block against political parties," he explains in conversation with the ARA. "The drift of Europe and the world towards the far right worries us, but we believe that the way to confront it is with policies" to solve the "real problems": "[illegal] occupation, civility, security, housing" and also the "demographic challenge."