Ada Colau pressures Gabriel Rufián to join the Broad Front

The leader of the commons and former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, asked Gabriel Rufián (ERC) this afternoon to “finish helping to unite the leftist forces.” “I have made myself available to a broad and unitary project to have a project and that no vote is lost, we are counting on Podemos to end up uniting and the doors are open for Gabriel Rufián,” he said in statements to La Sexta late on a Friday before the three-day long weekend. And he celebrated that the Republican had the “lucidity” to bet on a unity of forces to the left of the PSOE to run together in the general elections.

To the question of whether Podemos will be there or if Colau herself would join the electoral confluence in her absence, the response of the former mayor of Barcelona has been: “I can't conceive that all the leftist forces are not there.” A phrase that extends to the Republican Rufián, with whom he shares, observes “a minimum program” with the right to housing and public services at the forefront.

The former mayor's tone has been almost dramatic, an ultimatum: "If we fail the people, now we can all go home." “We have a week of time left, which is very little,” he warned. He has specified that he is making the call “on a personal basis and without setting any deadline for anyone” or wanting to interfere in the rest of the games. “What I urge is that we all agree and put the common good ahead of any personal or particular interest,” he insisted, saying the same idea in several ways. The former mayor of Barcelona had ruled out returning to institutional politics for the last two years, and explained that she was taking the step “because of the moment we are experiencing.”

After days of silence, Rufián wrote this Thursday through a message on the social network He then noted: "I am trying to do it accompanied by other left-wing and anti-fascist forces because this cannot be won alone. And I will try until the end. And I hope ERC wants it too."