“Dehumanization is also what that socialist candidate just did.” It is Carles Puigdemon’s response to the president of UGT Catalunya and the Seat works council, Matías Carnero, who closes the PSC list in Barcelona and this Friday he mocked the former Catalan president at an event in which the candidate was present and first secretary of the Catalan socialists, Salvador Illa.
At a PSC meeting with the unions, Carnero said about Puigdemont, now a Junts candidate, that “he left crying in the trunk, and I don’t know if he shit or pissed, but he went to Brussels,” to reply to the leader himself. independence movement who last week pointed out, in reference to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that in JxCat they leave home “crying.” It was a reference to the five days of reflection that the head of the central Executive took to decide whether to resign or not. for the accusations made against his wife by Manos Médicas. Carnero’s comment has provoked applause and laughter among those present and, on the other hand, it has sparked indignation in Junts.
During his speech, the trade unionist Carnero mentioned Puigdemont’s departure on two occasions “inside a trunk” and also referred to the former Catalan president as “the man who lives outside.” In addition, Carnero has joked about the Junts campaign advertising, in which Puigdemont is seen inside a car, sitting in the back seat returning home. “Why hasn’t the photo been taken inside the trunk?” Carnero asked. Furthermore, the union member has criticized that the vehicle is a Volvo. “He who wants homeland and country goes in a Volvo,” he said, in reference to the fact that this car brand does not have a plant in Spain.
Puigdemont, shortly after, has disgraced the socialists on social network State sewers to justify that they could not arrest me before I went into exile.” “They invented the trunk thing to try to justify their incompetence (or our ability to avoid safe detention),” the former president added to deny that he had ever been in a trunk, an aspect that, in fact, he has denied these days in some of their rallies.
“I have never been in any trunk, and they know it, but they repeat it just as those in the sewer repeat that the prime minister’s wife has shady dealings,” insisted the post-convergent leader who has disfigured the socialists for putting on “an emotional circus.” to collect votes” which has contrasted with his attitude: “We strengthened ourselves and prepared ourselves much better to face them from the day after the elections.” “Maybe that’s what they’re afraid of,” he speculated.
In the afternoon, at a rally in Argelers with Penedès militants, the former Catalan president censored Carnero’s words and accused the socialists of “cynicism and hypocrisy.” “They do the same thing that his boss came to denounce Catalonia. They use the lies from the sewers of the State to dehumanize and denigrate their political rival,” noted Puigdemont, who added that he has “a very tough skin” and that they will not “break” him.
“They have also tried to attack my family and they have not succeeded. I’m not worried about that, I’m worried about the cynicism and hypocrisy of a party that says it wants to govern for all Catalans and says that in Spain there is lawfare and police who associate with judges who chase ghosts and media that publish lies about the Falcon or shady dealings, or not, of his wife. And today they have done the same, they have used the patriotic police, patriotic judges and the press that lies to muddy up,” criticized Puigdemont, who believes that the PSC “has gone too far.”
Albert Batet, director of the Junts campaign, has pointed out from Argelers that they are “infamous statements and insults”, a fact without “precedent” in a Catalan electoral campaign. “I had never seen a president of the Generalitat insulted and humiliated at a rally. They have disrespected him,” Batet pointed out in Argelers a few hours later. “That is the real PSC, don’t let them fool us. The PSC has really come out, Salvador Illa has really said what they think publicly,” Batet concluded, describing what has happened as “very serious.” “The PSC is the worthy successor of Ciudadanos, Illa is the successor of Albert Rivera and Inés Arrimadas,” he concluded. “He is the same mud from the PP and Vox, they share the mud in the PSOE,” Batet concluded.
In turn, the number three on the JxCat list, Josep Rull, has also attacked Carnero’s words: “The usual rude and unpresentable Lerrouxism that generates the enthusiasm and applause of the usual people. Unfortunately, nothing new.”
