Pep Guardiola will participate in Catalan elections – radiofórmula

July 20, 2015

Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola is on the list of groups and political parties to participate in elections in Catalonia.

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MADRID Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola is on the list of groups and political parties to participate in elections in Catalonia.

The list promotes the independence of the region autonomous northeastern Spain, although the famous technical director has little chance of becoming a legislator.

Local media reported that the former coach of Barcelona, ​​who will be the last of the electoral list in the elections of 27 September, believes this is the best way to support the sovereignist process.

The list will be presented on Monday in Barcelona and integrate the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), the Ommium cultural group, Democratic Convergence of Catalonia ( CDC) and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC).

Guardiola will participate for the constituency of Barcelona, ​​whose list featured 85 candidates (Parliament is made up of 135 seats), and the last place could hardly access as deputy.

The former player also last year supported the independence consultation organized by the Catalan government, which it lacked legal validity after his disqualification by the Constitutional Court.

The list will be led by former Left Catalonia Greens MEP Raul Romeva; the number two will be for the former head of the Catalan National Assembly, Carmen Forcadell; . and the president of Omnium, Muriel Casals, in third position

The current president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas, will be in fourth place; and the president of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Oriol Junqueras fifth, while positions six seven will be for independent defined.

From the eighth place will be split 58 percent for Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (led by Mas) and 42 percent for Republican Left of Catalonia, which must also define their candidates.

The agreement states that this list will be president if he wins Mas, his deputy and Junqueras within six to eight months independence be declared unilaterally.

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