The very poor electoral prospects of Ciutadans – no poll predicts a parliamentary representation of the party after the 12-M elections – have awakened the most creative vein of Carlos Carrizosa’s men, who returned to their old habits with a singular electoral poster which places the Junts candidate, Carles Puigdemont, in a cell: “Where it should be.” The electoral strategy of this campaign, led by MEP Jordi Cañas, not only recovered the logo and original message of Ciutadans, which led the party to win the 2021 Catalan elections, but also used the old “modus operandi” from the Albert Rivera era, because indeed it attracts attention in an unorthodox way before the elections. The party leader, for example, posed naked on a very controversial electoral poster, and it was also common to see him accompanied by curious objects during the electoral debates when he made the jump to Congress. The last of these particular scenes was accompanied by Lucas, the dog who smelled “milk” and who did not bring good results to the oranges, since they lost – forever – the opportunity to be decisive in the Spanish government after the debacle? of 2019.
They do not want to suffer the same fate this time during the Catalan elections, in a campaign where Artificial Intelligence is omnipresent in Ciutadans’ messages. Carlos Carrizosa’s candidacy aims to “convey a declaration of intentions” through the image of Puigdemont behind bars: “Many Catalans want to see him pay for what he did, he is the most responsible for the ruin economic and social that the process entailed. “, explained the candidate. Last week another electoral poster of the formation was published, also made with AI, which simulated a handshake between Puigdemont himself and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in a hypothetical Catalan Republic. It read “Stop them”, because Ciutadans wanted to denounce “the pacts of shame and what will happen if we do not stop them, because the referendum will take place and Catalonia will separate from Spain”. intends to establish himself as “the only candidate capable of putting an end to this situation” and everything else remains in the hands of the voters.