After some turbulent recent times with internal crises and opposing sectors, ERC experienced this Monday the birth of a new organization that does not seek to take control of the party, but rather to strengthen it and make it more attractive to sectors that have not yet approached it. This is the challenge undertaken by ERC deputies in the Parliament and Congress, Carles Campuzano and Francesc-Marc Álvaro, who have presented Esquerra Democràtica, an association affiliated with the republican formation, whose objective is to attract the centrist sovereignist vote.

The ERC deputy in Congress Francesc-Marc Álvaro presented the book, but it was another republican in Madrid who took the party president's message. "I went to jail for Catalunya, not because Colau is a deputy on an Esquerra list." Oriol Junqueras has cut short the unitary list of the left promoted for weeks by Gabriel Rufián with the collaboration of his former colleague in the lower house, Joan Tardà. In fact, a few days ago Tardà himself suggested in an interview in Público that Colau be number 2 on a list headed by Rufián and that David Fernàndez (CUP) also be in third position.

Just weeks before the fiftieth anniversary of Franco's death, the rise of the far right is worrying the world as it hasn't for almost a century. In this context, and after two years living in Madrid as a member of parliament for the ERC party, journalist and essayist Francesc-Marc Álvaro publishes the book Francoism in the time of TrumpIn it, he paints a portrait of the reactionary rise in Spain, centered on Vox, or as he says in the book, "the disturbing evidence" that fascism did not die with the end of the dictatorship.