Irene Montero and Gabriel Rufián will share a pre-campaign event this Saturday, October 24, in Barcelona to strengthen the alliance between Podemos and ERC ahead of the November 29 elections, in a context marked by the "shipwreck" of talks with Frente Amplio.
The meeting will be held at 12:00 p.m. in the Plaza Mayor of Nou Barris, in the city of Barcelona, and will be presented under the slogan Home, life, future, according to the dissemination carried out by Podemos through its social networks.
The call responds to the collaboration agreement between both formations for these elections: Podemos will not run in Catalonia and will support ERC, which includes members of the purple formation as independents on its lists. And Rufián, according to the described agreement, will campaign alongside the former Minister of Equality.
Montero activates the message of "the basics" and takes ownership of the apologies for the clash
Montero wrote on X that this Saturday, October 24, she will meet with Rufián in Nou Barris to defend that politics returns to the basics: "Peace, home, work." In her publication, she also pointed out that they want to "end the housing business" and "lower the cost of living."
That same day, the Podemos candidate acknowledged that the shipwreck of the talks with Frente Amplio "is not enough for many people" and, furthermore, took ownership of the apologies expressed on Friday by Rufián for the "spectacle" offered during the negotiations.
Apologies, defense of the pact, and pressure to vote
Montero and Ione Belarra defended that the alliance with ERC is valuable and stressed that the differences with Frente Amplio were over political issues, not positions. She also criticized that space for its closeness to the PSOE, reflected in the joint candidacies they will present to the Senate.
Rufián, for his part, apologized for the "ridicule" of the left ahead of the November 29 elections and urged his electorate to vote "even if disillusioned or angry."
The ERC leader defended the agreement with Podemos and assured that "he did not want to make a hostile takeover bid to anyone, this was not against anyone." He also insisted that he "would have loved" for there to be a real Frente Amplio and for Podemos and Frente Amplio to understand each other, but made it clear that his plan was not to "be the same with another name" nor for him "to have to replace Yolanda Díaz."
