Finally, it will be the Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona, that will host the conference in which the Republican Gabriel Rufián and the Podemos MEP Irene Montero will reflect on the future of the Spanish left. The appointment is next April 9, although the exact time has not yet been finalized. Both Rufián and Montero have published the site of the event in X, something that comes a day after it emerged that the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) had rejected permission for it.
“On April 9 we will sit down to talk with Gabriel Rufián and Xavi Domènech. It will be at the Pompeu Fabra University. Don’t miss it,” says the message published by Montero in What should be done (What needs to be done).
The organizers aspire to repeat in Barcelona the success of the meeting in Madrid between Rufián and the autonomous deputy of Más Madrid, Emilio Delgado, who staged the debate within the progressive forces to the left of the PSOE to join forces and not lose parliamentary representation, in the face of the onslaught of the extreme right.
The agreement to hold the event at the Pompeu Fabra comes a day after it became known that the initial plan passed through the UAB. That center declined to give permission, arguing that its policy is not to host events of a “non-academic nature.” An argument that clashes with the fact that the moderator, the former deputy of Catalunya en Comú Xavier Domènch, is a professor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of that Catalan university.
Pompeu Fabra, in fact, is usually the scene of various political events, both in electoral campaigns and also in the organic life of the parties. Junts per Catalunya has held several national councils there and the Commons has held one of its general assemblies.
Precisely the Commons and also the Republican Left do not share the formula proposed by Rufián. The ERC spokesperson in Madrid is betting that the nationalist and state left will divide up the provinces to avoid internal competition with so few seats to be distributed and thus maximize representation in the next general elections.
