In Aitona, Lleida, mayor Rosa Pujol has joined the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) and will lead its list in next year’s municipal elections. She is due to present the agreement today alongside Òscar Ordeig, the PSC’s first secretary in Lleida and the Minister for Agriculture.
The presentation is scheduled for the Aitona multi-purpose building. It comes two weeks after Pujol reached another local agreement with Albert Dalmau, the Minister for the Presidency, to rehabilitate the century-old bridge over the Segre river, which was built in 1917.
Pujol currently governs Aitona with an absolute majority under Ara Pacte Local. She is expected to stand under a white-label arrangement aligned with the PSC for higher-level bodies such as the regional council and the Provincial Council. She also serves as a provincial deputy, the only representative from her current party, and is vice-president of the corporation, where she governs in coalition with the PSC, ERC and Unitat d'Aran.
Pujol first became mayor in 2010 after a no-confidence motion against Republican Pau Blanco. The motion was backed by her then-party, CiU, with support from the PSC and the PP. In 2023, after the dissolution of the nationalist party, she ran under the PDeCAT banner, from which Ara Pacte Local was formed.
Her candidacy is one of about 20 proposals for small municipality leaders in Lleida that the PSC’s Lleida federation council will need to approve on 8 June. The party expects to field more electoral lists this year than four years ago, helped by the visibility of governing the Generalitat. Among the mayors expected to seek re-election are Fèlix Larrosa in Lleida, Lorena González in Balaguer, Jan Pomés in Cervera, Sílvia Romero in Tremp, Joan Barrera in La Seu, and Juan Antonio Serrano of Unitat d'Aran in Vielha.
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