In politics, the site is also the message. Hence, it is not surprising that Junts Per Catalunya has chosen the French population of Prats-de-Molló, just five kilometers from the Spanish border, to celebrate its fifth anniversary on Sunday. Its leader, he wanted to turn the party into a great act of self -esteem for the game. Remembering the difficulties in creating it – with the leaders of the process in pretrial detention and he detained in Germany – he has assured that ”, thus remarking the“ abnormality ”that he sees that the law of amnesty has not been applied. An idea that has linked with the warning to the socialists, both in Madrid and in Barcelona, that he does not intend to move away from his approach to condition each vote and be squeezing party.
In 1926, the French population was the site from which the former head of the Catalan Government Francesc Macià sought the armed invasion of Catalonia and thus trying independence. The so -called Prats plot failed as much as the attempt to secession in 2017 but despite the copernican turn of the party, the Junts address continues to achieve the balance between maintaining the flame of an increasingly squalid processing story and with the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
Some 1,500 people have gathered on the spot, the same ones that accompanied him in another French population, a little further from the border, Amélie-Le-Bains. Precisely, on this same date, to Catalonia for the investiture of Salvador Illa and that they would try to block it. The expressor, who is still not applied to amnesty and on which a national arrest warrant still weighs, has not made references to a possible return but has tried to give an alternative account to “political normality” that the socialists proclaim.
“The proof that there is no political normality in Catalonia that want to make us believe is that there are still people in exile and persecuted for their political convictions,” said the number three of the party, Judith Toronjo, before a Puigdemont who has embraced when he arrived with two of his former counselors who still do not return to Spain, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig. The Secretary General, Jordi Turull, has collected that glove and has denounced “the songs of Mirena de Madrid”, erecting together as “the thorn of those who accept normalized autonomism.”
Puigdemont, faithful to his promise of the fifth anniversary party as a moment of self -esteem for Junts, he has not wanted to enter any hot topic of national news, such as corruption cases within the PSOE and the PP, or to denounce the judges hard for not applying the amnesty. After closing a period of sessions demonstrating that in Congress you can sink what is not consulted – last, the antiapages decree – the expressor recalled that it will continue with the method of vote by vote and that your support cannot be given by discouragement. And, in a veiled attack on ERC, he wanted to contrast those who, he says, “are agreed from home.”
“This is the Junts method,” he said before an audience with many heads with gray hair and waiting for him by shaking flags star. “It is asking how many basic questions every time they ask us for the vote.[La medida] Is it positive or can it be for the Catalans and Catalonia? Respect competences and our identity? Have our proposals been accepted? Is it useful to advance on the way to independence?
“Our vote cannot be given by any separate. It has to win,” he insisted, a warning for Sánchez, also in the Ecuador of the Spanish legislature. The voice of the leader has always allowed to calm the waters when a certain way of doing, especially in Congress, of the feeling of being the autonomism that always criticizes ERC. Therefore, Puigdemont has also taken the opportunity to send a message that serves both against the CUP and against the Ultra Party of Aliança Catalan, whose fort is very close on the Spanish side of the border. Against the architects of Chaos, who resolve everything with simple messages against immigration or tourism, their party must be that of the pawns of hope. “We are the competition party,” he said to refer to those of immigration, one more slope in the list of the Junts-PSOE investiture agreement.
