The general secretary of Junts per Catalunya, Jordi Turull, was admitted to the Bellvitge Hospital (Hospitalet de Llobregat) this Monday afternoon after suffering heart failure. As confirmed by the party itself, the operation to perform a catheterization went well and the politician is in the ICU, as is usual after this type of intervention.
Turull, (Parets del Vallès, 1966) has held the position of general secretary of Carles Puigdemont’s party since May 2022, when the party elected its new leadership at the congress in Argelès-sur-Mer (France). At that congress, Puigdemont said goodbye to the militants in person after announcing that he was giving up running again to preside over the formation.
Turull was elected to the position by 92% of the votes of the militancy in that conclave, in which Laura Borràs was also appointed as president of the party, but with 78% of the votes.
The responsibility at the head of the party came to him after the approval of the pardons for the leaders of the process by the Government of Pedro Sánchez in the previous legislature, in June 2021. Turull had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sedition and embezzlement for part of the Supreme Court. In the Puigdemont Government that promoted the 1-O referendum, Turull was the Minister of the Presidency and spokesperson.
As the political and organic person responsible for Junts, Turull is the one who has led the negotiations with the PSOE, both for Sánchez’s investiture and for the approval of the amnesty law, together with the president of the parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies, Míriam Nogueras.
After hearing the news, the Junts leader has received numerous expressions of encouragement from coreligionists and leaders of other formations. Among them, that of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès; that of the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, of former president Carles Puigdemont, of the leader of the PPC, Alejandro Fernández, or that of his colleague Josep Rull.
Aragonès has published a message on social networks assuring that “our thoughts are with Jordi Turull” to whom he wishes “a good and quick recovery, a hug to his family” and “all our support in these difficult times.”
Illa claims to have conveyed to the post-convergent leadership “the desire for a quick recovery” of Turull and expresses “all the support to his family” and “many encouragement” to the leader. And Rull highlights his partner’s bravery, commitment and essential character. “We love you,” he says. Borràs has also published a message in which he hopes “for the quick recovery of our general secretary.”
