The controversial extremely chief, Josep Anglada, has as soon as once more obtained illustration within the Vic City Council (Barcelona) within the 28M municipal elections after dropping it in 2015. The creator of the extinct Platform for Catalonia, with which he was a metropolis councilor for 16 consecutive years, now returns with two councilors and a brand new group, Som Identitaris.
Anglada has primarily based a very good a part of his electoral marketing campaign towards door-to-door rubbish assortment and towards immigration, in one of many capitals of the area with the most important quantity of residents of North African and sub-Saharan origin.
Josep Anglada was sentenced to 2 years of disqualification for threatening a minor from Arran (an excessive left-wing formation of independence) on Twitter.
Capital of belligerent independence
Vic can be one of many bastions of essentially the most combative independence motion. Its mayor, Albert Castells (Junts) needed to take away some pro-independence banners from the facade of the city corridor throughout this electoral marketing campaign by order of the Electoral Board. In 2019 he obtained an absolute majority however he misplaced it within the elections this Sunday and he will probably be compelled to agree to take care of energy.
Ultra Catalan nationalism is gaining power in different municipalities. The National Front of Catalonia has obtained an absolute majority in La Masó (Tarragona) and illustration within the Manresa city corridor. In Ripoll, Aliança Catalana has prevailed on the polls.
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