Oriol Junqueras’ Militància Decidim is the big favorite and will win outright if he gets more than half of the votes. The change in party leadership will be completed by mid-February.
Up to 8,030 ERC members are being called to participate in the first round of the party’s internal elections this Saturday. These votes will be final if one of the three candidates chosen to form the new leadership receives more than 50% of support.
The candidates for president are Oriol Junqueras, out Militancia Decidimwho led the ERC between 2011 and last June; Xavier Godàs, out Nova Esquerra Nacionalsociologist and former mayor of Vilassar de Dalt (Barcelona); and Helena Solà, from Foc Wellwhose political career is linked to the municipal council of Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona).
A priori, Militància Decidim has an advantage, with 2,565 expressions of support for participating in the electoral battle, followed by Nova Esquerra Nacional with 1,510 and Foc Nou with 468.
It is the third time that members can vote electronically – this was already the case in 2019 and 2022 – in such a process. Voting will start at 9am and results will be announced at the party headquarters from 8pm.
The direction the ERC takes will be decisive, as this pro-independence party holds in one hand the key to the governability of Catalonia and in the other hand seven important votes in Congress to support the government of Pedro Sánchez.
Republicans are in internal crisis and low hours: expelled from the Generalitat, with about 1,500 fewer militants compared to 2019 and a loss of half a million votes compared to the same year.
The choice of the new address is registered in the XXX national conference of ERCwhich will not be finalized until mid-February, as the poll-determined executive must propose a new political and strategic roadmap that can only then be validated.
Source: EITB
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