Barcelona (EFE) but they share numerous postulates that have allowed them to break into 81 municipalities.
The volume of municipal representation achieved by these four far-right formations is unbalanced: Vox is, by far, the one that has garnered the most councilors this 28M and has positioned itself as the eighth force in Catalonia, with a voice in 75 municipalities spread over the four provinces , an exponential growth compared to the 2019 elections, when it only obtained three mayors in Salt (Girona).
Aliança Catalana and FNC -together with Renaixença Nacional Catalana (Rn.cat), another pro-independence extreme right group-, presented lists in thirteen Catalan municipalities and have achieved representation in five of them, with a total of 14 councilors.
Som Identitaris, born in 2016 by former Fuerza Nueva militant and founder of Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), Josep Anglada, has obtained representation in Vic, the birthplace of its promoter.
VOX boosts its representation from 3 to 124 councilors
The province that registers a higher entry of Vox councilors is Barcelona, where in the 2019 elections it did not obtain any councilor and this 28M it has obtained 82; In Catalonia as a whole, the party got 3 councilors -in Salt- in the previous municipal elections, a figure that has risen to 124 this past Sunday.
The far-right formation has maintained its presence in the province of Girona, with the increase in a mayor in the Salt town hall (4) and the irruption in the capital (1 councilor and 5.07% of the votes), and has managed to enter the provinces of
Tarragona and Lleida, in municipalities such as Salou (3 councilors and 11.7% of the vote) and Lleida capital (2 councilors and 7.56%).
With the initial objective of “collecting the vote of the right wing disenchanted with the PP’s policies”, Vox summarizes its project in defense of the unity of the Spanish State, it describes itself as the “antithesis of autonomism” and of Catalan independence, but the axis National is not the only vector of his discourse: linking illegal immigration to crime is another of his assets.
Anglada recovers its municipal speaker in Vic
The frontal opposition to “immigration that threatens the identity of ancient peoples” that Josep Anglada claims to represent once again has a voice in the Vic City Council, where he was already a councilor for 16 consecutive years -from 2003 to 2019-, until he was sentenced in May 2019 to two years in prison and disqualification for threatening a minor who was active in Arran.
The founder of Som Identitaris y Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), the former militant of Fuerza Nueva Josep Anglada. EFE/ALEJANDRO GARCIA
This 28M, Anglada headed the list of Som Identitaris in Vic, where it has obtained two councilors, with 8.82%, but its formation has been left without representation in the other three towns in which it appeared -Barcelona, El Vendrell ( Tarragona) and Santa Oliva (Tarragona)-, results that are far from those achieved by PxC in 2011, its peak: 67 councillors.
Absolute majority of the FNC in a municipality of Tarragona
The FNC, which ran in 10 municipalities, has achieved an absolute majority in La Masó, a town of 285 inhabitants in the province of Tarragona, with 4 councilors and 54.49% of the votes, and has broken into the City Council of Manresa (Barcelona), with 2 councilors and 6.48% of the votes cast; in the rest of the localities it has not exceeded the 5% of votes necessary to achieve representation.
This formation began its political activity in 2013 with a pro-independence and anti-immigration discourse and a series of proposals focused on stopping the migratory waves: conditioning public aid to the “rooting” of newcomers and the deportation of “criminal immigrants”. .
Aliança Catalana wins in Ripoll
Aliança Catalana has obtained a relative majority in the Ripoll Town Hall (Girona), with 6 councilors and 30.76% of the votes cast, and has obtained a councilor in the other two localities where it presented its candidacy: Ribera d’Ondara (Lleida ) and Manlleu (Barcelona).
The visible face of this pro-independence formation is Sílvia Orriols, who ran with the FNC in the 2019 elections and obtained a seat in the Ripoll consistory but tore up her party card less than a year later and founded Aliança Catalana, which denounces the “Aggravation of public aid against Catalans” for the benefit of immigration and proposes, like the FNC, “stop” Islamism and “prohibit the Islamic headscarf on municipal workers.”