It's possible that if Silvia Orriols hadn't won the mayoralty of Ripoll, the Catalan Alliance would never have entered Parliament. Today, this remains a mystery, but what is certain is that neither of these two events would have happened without the participation of Margarita Cabello. This retired woman from Ripoll is the founder and number one member of the Catalan Alliance. "I started it all," she tells ARA from the room where she taught extracurricular English classes to the town's children. It was in this small room with a balcony overlooking Ripoll's Plaça Gran and from which an estelada (Spanish flag) flutters that it was agreed to present a candidacy for the far-right party in the 2019 municipal elections.