Podemos confirms the agreement to go together with ERC in Catalonia in the general elections

Podemos announced this Monday that it has closed an agreement to "contribute" to the ERC candidacy in the next general elections in Catalonia, which would mean going together on the electoral lists for the Catalan constituencies, sources from the purple formation have explained to EFE.

On the other hand, they have indicated that Gabriel Rufián and Irene Montero will team up at campaign events. Both parties have announced in separate statements the agreement, which involves "two actions": Podemos "will contribute" to the ERC list in Catalonia and the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, and the number two of the purples, Irene Montero, "will team up in campaign events."

"Esquerra Republicana and Podemos in Catalonia have a clear responsibility: to defend Catalonia and its people," both groups point out in their statements, written in the same terms. Precisely on Sunday, ERC confirmed Rufián as its headliner for the November 29 elections, an announcement that came after days of discreet negotiations between the two parties, although Rufián himself had demanded from his party "a minimum of conditions" to ERC to accept being the candidate again.

For their part, Podemos sources indicate that Montero's intention is to be a candidate for Madrid and recall that they offered the new Frente Amplio coalition open primaries to elect a joint head of the list for the next general elections.