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.

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.