Elisenda Carrera is no longer a councilor for Ara Vic. The Vic City Council reported this Wednesday that the Ara Vic councilor has formally requested to leave the political group and become a non-attached councilor. The decision comes the day after Xavier Farrés, the other councilor for the Vigatan formation of the defunct PDECat, announced that they would expel her if she did not leave the council, at a press conference in the consistory accompanied by other members of the party's executive. Her departure comes in response to rumors, as advanced by el ARA, which place her as the possible candidate for Aliança Catalana in Vic in the next municipal elections. "Expulsion no longer makes sense because it was her decision to leave the group," Farrés states in conversation with el ARA.

There are two years left until the municipal elections, and the parties are already mobilizing to address their electoral black holes and maintain their strongholds. This is the case of Junts, which held a municipal convention this Saturday in Vic, one of its strongholds, where it addressed a document on tightening the electoral roll. as the ARA advanced, They have worked on a lobby of mayors, and now the party has adopted them. They intend to reform the law so that, for example, illegal occupations are excluded from the registry, as well as those without a "qualifying title or proof of residence," which would also exclude from the registry people who report that they are in municipal facilities. David Saldoni resigns from all party positions, responsible for municipal policy and deputy in the general secretariat, after a political career in the space of Junts and CiU since 1999.

In front of the current political context of disenchantment and decline of the independence movement, municipalism is joining forces to try to refloat the path of national sovereignty. The city councils of Girona, Manresa, and Vic, together with the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), are calling on all elected officials from the country's local councils to participate in the first National Meeting of Elected Officials of Catalonia on May 31st in the Girona capital: a day of debate and reflection that aims to establish...

Josep Maria de Abadal was mayor of Vic from 2007 to 2015, coinciding with the rise of Plataforma por Cataluña (PxC), led by Josep Anglada. When he arrived at the council, the far right was the second largest force, but after his mandate it disappeared. Now it has two again. Villa de Abadal was also president of the Association of Municipalities for Independence.

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."