The Minister of Culture and number 2 of the Comuns-Front Ampli for Barcelona, Ernest Urtasun, has claimed the need to focus on solving the everyday difficulties of citizens instead of “living off them,” accusing the PP candidate for Barcelona, Xavier Garcia Albiol, of doing so “by playing the sheriff on social media.”
Urtasun has taken part in a campaign rally this Sunday in Badalona (Barcelona), before about 300 people according to the organization, accompanied by the Minister of Social Rights and campaign spokesperson, Pablo Bustinduy; number 5 for Barcelona, Lucía Martín, and the Comuns leader in the Parliament, Jéssica Albiach.
He has underlined that addressing people’s problems, in his view, marks the main distance between Frente Amplio and the PP, a formation he has criticized for its “disastrous management” in Badalona, where only 8 public housing units would have been built during the period of popular government, while 442 million euros in budgetary carryovers were accumulated in a city with major shortcomings, as he has denounced.
Likewise, he has positioned PP and Vox as adversaries of democratic memory, of public services, of pensions, and of care for dependency, areas that he has pledged to protect from his political space: “If you are in favor of all this, your vote is for Frente Amplio.”
He has also warned about the “terrifying virus of isolation” that, according to him, right-wing and far-right formations intend to inoculate in society, and he has described this fight against social isolation as the great ideological dispute of the moment, calling to stand up to that drift.
Bustinduy and his criticisms of the PSOE and the right
Bustinduy has warned that the “chainsaw” that they want to implement PP and Vox is against the working class, defending the rentiers, the big corporations, and the investment funds.
“Not one step back, they are not going to win,” the minister has asserted, who has called for the vote of all workers to defend the rights of those who depend on their salary to bring their family forward.
He has also reproached the PSOE for using the measures defended by the parties that make up Frente Amplio to appeal to the so-called useful vote: “I would be ashamed to campaign with measures that not only aren’t mine, but that I did everything I could for them not to move forward,” he said, referring to the socialists.
In addition, the Republican candidate for Barcelona, Gabriel Rufián, has been referred to, recognizing his ability to "communicate and convey" from the podium, but remembering that, "if it were up to them, the labor reform would not have made it through."
He has shown himself fully convinced that the Broad Front will achieve a relevant presence within a future progressive coalition government, maintaining that "useful voting is the one that improves people's lives in this country."
Albiach warns that the woman is in the "crosshairs"
Albiach has claimed the role of the Broad Front in defending women's rights and has warned: "If they have declared war on the working class, on women a bit more because we are always in their crosshairs."
Along these lines, she has defended the rights of trans women, of migrant women, and of single-parent families, and has underscored that "feminism hasn't gone far enough," recalling that so far this year 44 sexist murders have been registered, a figure that she has described as sheer barbarity.