The president of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Joan Puigcercós, has expressed his wish to run the forthcoming European elections next June with other nationalist parties within the Spanish state. The independentist leader has two options in mind: the first one would entail the setting up of a greater coalition made up of all nationalist parties formerly included in the Europe of the Peoples coalition (ERC, Eusko Alkartasuna and Chunta Aragonesista, amongst others) and the Galeusca coalition (Convergència i Unió, Basque Nationalist Party, Bloque Nacionalista Galego, Bloc Nacionalista Valencià and Partit Socialista de Mallorca-Entesa Nacionalista); the second option would be a unifed Catalan coalition with ERC and CiU.

Currently, Galeusca has to MEP's, whereas Europe of the Peoples has one. The alliance of both coalitions under a unified list including most of the pro-self-determination parties representing the stateless nations in Spain would be an unprecedented move.

Further information:

• Avui: Puigcercós proposa una gran coalició nacionalista amb partits de tot l'Estat per a Europa
• Vilaweb: ERC torna a proposar a CiU una candidatura conjunta a Europa