The former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau has asked the parliamentary spokesperson for ERC, Gabriel Rufián, to exercise leadership of the Frente Amplio at the state level to carry out an "exciting left-wing project."
"I think that Gabriel Rufián has a very important role to play, in recent months he has had a capacity for connection and communication with the entire citizenry that is evident," said Colau in La Sexta, who has insisted that in the next elections "not a single vote can be lost and that there must be a single proposal."
"I would invite you, come on, I am totally willing to help you if you decide, not only to be a candidate for Catalonia, but also to exercise that leadership to unify that left at the state level," added the former mayor of Barcelona.
Colau has insisted that in the Frente Amplio "there is no one left over" and that it is necessary for all parties to sit at a table "to carry out this unitary project where we are all together."
"What matters is that there is a unitary project with a common program and that the different faces that are most visible put ourselves at the service of that common project. That is what the citizens are asking of us," he stated.
And he added: "that is why I say that I will be available in the place that is most useful. And I also ask Gabriel Rufián to also exercise that responsibility and leadership that he has built in these months and to also help build that unity on the left."
Colau has said that she is making this appeal to the Republican in her personal capacity, without setting deadlines, making it clear that she will be in the appropriate place because she is indifferent to the position on the list and that she will be in the place that is most useful. Of course, he has warned that there are seven days left to close coalitions and we must stop "dizzying the partridge."
"It's happening to me these days that when my name has come out of the possible names for that unitary candidacy, many people tell me 'Yes, very good, but also with Gabriel Rufián' and I say 'Of course yes'," emphasized the former mayor of Barcelona, who has slipped that she has evidently been in contact with him.
He has also reflected that this unitary Frente Amplio project has to have "different faces" so that they are "more visible", inviting all formations to be part of a common negotiating table to achieve an agreement to "go all together and defeat the right and the extreme right."
Colau has stated that she cannot conceive any other scenario other than also including Podemos in this unity candidacy and is convinced that the MEP and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, also has to be within Frente Amplio.
