The Junts candidate in the general elections, Miriam Nogueras, has made this Sunday a call to ERC voters who reject taking part in the elections in coalition with Podemos, considering that this formation blocked the transfer to Catalonia of competences in immigration.
"I appeal to all Catalans, also to those who have voted for ERC in some elections and who now do not understand why it has allied itself with those who voted for the PP and Vox against immigration competences" for Catalonia, she has stated at a rally in Roses (Girona), before about 200 people, including party members and supporters.
According to Nogueras, in politics you cannot "go on being eternal extras of the PSOE without any kind of national ambition," and she has insisted that the interests of Catalonia must be prioritized over those of the right and left of the rest of the State.
She has underlined that achieving these competences is "non-negotiable," since, in her view, Catalonia cannot assume the consequences of the wrong decisions that, as she says, are taken in Madrid.
She has argued that her purpose is to follow the line of other EU countries that apply a migration policy based on greater control, in employment and in language: "In Denmark, Germany and France they do not call them racists for doing it" and they are countries with governments of different political leanings, she has stressed.
Mass regularizations and complaint to Europe
For the also spokesperson of Junts in Congress, the main problem in Spain is that it "does not have a migration policy" and this, she said, leads to mass regularizations every so often, both with PSOE governments and with the PP.
Along these lines, she has expressed her concern about the latest mass regularization of migrants, which, she assures, some European countries have replicated. For this reason, she explained that they filed a complaint with the community institutions, which will review the Executive's actions.
"Some say 'all out' and others 'all in.' Those are campaign slogans that do not solve the problems. We want a serious, orderly migration policy, adapted to the reality of Catalonia," she has summarized.
Ripoll alerts to the challenge in Roses
The mayor of Roses (Girona), Sílvia Ripoll, has intervened to address this issue in a municipality where around 30% of the population is of foreign origin. She has warned about the challenge involved in managing these migration flows, ensuring coexistence, and responding to demands from public services.
To achieve this, he calls for Catalonia to assume responsibility for immigration management and has regretted that the ERC candidate, Gabriel Rufián, runs in the elections with Podemos, a formation that opposes that transfer.
Cervera and "the jacobins of Podemos"
The number two on Junts per Girona, Josep Maria Cervera, has assured that "the jacobins of Podemos, who run on the arm of Rufián, prevented it. Wanting to manage immigration is not being racist; it is to organize Catalonia's needs and capacities."
He added that it also implies "avoiding the Catalonia of the 10 million that Salvador Illa sells us and avoiding massive regularizations, which will take us to the collapse of the country," in addition to establishing rights and obligations and favoring integration in values, culture and language.
Madrenas criticizes housing and security
The former mayor and top candidate for Junts per Girona, Marta Madrenas, has attacked the housing policies of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, whom she accuses of doing "everything contrary to what is necessary," and also against its security policies.
"Some people talk a lot but do little," she reproached, asserting Junts as the party that drove forward and made possible the approval of the Law against multi-recidivism.
"Delinquent tourism" and multi-recidivism
The mayor of Ripoll thanked the existence of this rule to curb that in towns like hers situations of "delinquent tourism" occur.
"There are people who come to make a killing. They are minor offenses that are repeat offenses. The Local Police detain them but through one door they come in and through the other they go out. This generates frustration, insecurity and a feeling of powerlessness," she explained, calling for a judicial system capable of dealing with this phenomenon.