The Partit Demòcrata has written its point. The national congress of the PDeCAT decided this Saturday by a large majority to end the political activity of the formation. The leadership of PDeCAT, Convergència’s successor, has made an assessment of the political situation in Catalonia and reviewed the party’s project and its recent electoral results. The conclusion is that the training has remained pathless. Very weakened by the recent election results, without representation in Parliament or in the Chamber of Deputies, the space led by David Bonvehí turns out to be a clear loser in the fight with Junts per Catalunya for the electorate of the old Convergència.
“After the 2019 elections, the institutional leaders linked to the party did not believe that the Partit Demòcrata could be a tool for the future and began an obvious distancing by promoting another political project,” said the statement published on Saturday by David Bonvehí. The leader of the PDeCAT alludes to the erosion that this meant for the creation of the Junts per Catalunya project, led by Carles Puigdemont.
Although in the last local elections it was possible to reach concrete agreements with Junts per Catalunya – for example with the candidacy of Xavier Trias in Barcelona – this formula was not repeated in the general elections of 23-J. The Espai CiU candidacy proposal, led by Roger Montañola, collided directly with the arguments of Junts and Carles Puigdemont. They even had to bitterly argue over electoral rights, which the electoral committee considered to be equivalent to those of Bonvehí.
But even with this advantage, Roger Montañola’s candidacy failed to convince the moderate space they wanted to challenge. Espai CiU received 31,687 votes, compared to the 98,794 received by the CUP or the more than 165,000 received by the Animalist Party (PACMA).
The PDeCAT has defined itself as a “centrist, nationalist, democratic and moderate party”. Before Bonvehí, Marta Pascal led the party. According to the party, PDeCAT currently has 200 city councilors and twenty mayors.
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