"Manresa cannot have an open door to the ocean and welcome everyone indiscriminately and without control". "We have to be able to say enough". "Manresa is saturated". "We have imported a model of delinquency from the Third World". "It cannot be that Catalonia has been the country that in the last 25 years has received the most immigration". "Manresa must be a more prosperous, safer, more ours, more Catalan city". The first three sentences were said by Ramon Bacardit (Junts). The last three by Sergi Perramon ("Avanç Nacionalista).

Just over a month. That's how long it took Junts and Avanç Nacionalista to reach an agreement to run in coalition in Manresa's municipal elections. The pact was made public this Friday and officially signed at noon at the Celler del Bages, with the presence of the two leaders of the parties: Junts member Ramon Bacardit and far-right councilor Sergi Perramon. This is the first municipal coalition between Carles Puigdemont's party and a force openly opposed to immigration. Both sides were keen to reach an agreement as soon as possible to form an alternative to the ERC government a year before the elections. Now it remains to be seen whether representatives of the former PDECat will also join, with whom they are also in talks, even though they are part of the current municipal coalition government with ERC and the PSC. Bacardit is expected to be the mayoral candidate on the unified list, with Perramon as number two, in a coalition that will operate under the Junts umbrella, bearing in mind that for Carles Puigdemont's party this was a red line and that Avanç Nacionalista is a new local training, which should collect signatures to be able to put up a fight.

Tempting offer from Aliança Catalana in the heart of Catalonia. And doubly so. And rejected once again. Sílvia Orriols' party proposed to Manresa councilor, Sergi Perramon, to be the candidate in the capital of Bages. If he accepted the proposal, Perramon would also be the candidate for Barcelona in the next Catalan elections. The councilor, who had run for the Front Nacional de Catalunya (FNC), from which Orriols split, has once again rejected the offer, as he himself confirmed to ARA. "Jordi Coma called me on behalf of the president on the last day of the year and I rejected it," he says, referring to the party's advisor in Parliament. The leadership has declined to confirm the information, when questioned by this newspaper.

Nationalist Advance, the party backing councilor Sergi Perramon in Manresa for the upcoming municipal elections, is beginning to expand its reach to other towns. It has already arrived in Sant Cugat del Vallès, where Lluís Fernández Alà, a former FC Barcelona presidential candidate in the 2021 elections, will be the party's mayoral candidate. In the last municipal elections, the businessman, like Perramon himself, ran under the banner of the National Front of Catalonia (FNC). And while he failed to secure the necessary endorsements from club members to continue his presidential campaign, he also struggled in the Sant Cugat local elections, garnering only 206 votes (0.5%) and finishing second to last.

Nationalist Advance. This is the name of the new party that Sergi Perramon, a councilor from the Nationalist Group, presented this afternoon at the El Voilà Café-Theater in anticipation of the upcoming municipal elections. The councilor, who distanced himself from the National Front of Catalonia (FNC) a year after the elections, asserts that he wants to create a "center-right" platform to become the leading force or at least be able to form a government. Shunning party labels and remaining unbranded, Perramon aims to form a grand coalition with Aliança Catalana, Junts, or Impulsem, but one that will not involve any absorption. The fundamental debate, however, will be whether this new party operates under the umbrella of these existing formations. "We must be generous," the spokesperson repeatedly emphasizes, noting that the political space he represents is currently "too fragmented" to aspire to unseat ERC. It's no surprise that up to three lists could be presented if there's no agreement between Avenç, Aliança, and the FNC, which, taking advantage of its electoral rights, could also put up a fight. The capital of the Bages region is one of the strongholds of the far right. In the last elections to the Catalan Parliament, Aliança and Vox together garnered 16% of the vote.