The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, defined this Monday the Christmas speech of King Felipe VI as a continuation of the one he made three days after 1-O, “and the best example is that the right and the extreme right applaud him “.
He led a floral offering at the tomb of his predecessor Francesc Macià in the Montjuïc cemetery in Barcelona for the 90th anniversary of his death, together with councilors Natàlia Mas (Economy), Ignasi Elena (Interior), Carles Campuzano (Social Rights) , Gemma Ubasart (Justice), Natàlia Garriga (Culture), Manuel Balcells (Health) and Tània Verge (Equality).
Pere Aragonès has criticized that the monarch’s speech this Sunday has the applause “from the right and the extreme right, because they feel very comfortable.”
For him, it was a “Spanish nationalist speech, a speech with which the citizens of Catalonia do not feel represented. In fact, they do not feel represented by the Monarchy either.”
“Those words of October 3, 2017 resonated, that date on which the few ties that the Monarchy still had with some Catalans were broken,” he added.
Furthermore, he has assured that the members of his Government want to be “worthy continuators” of the Catalonia for which Macià worked, whom he has praised as independentist, republican and left-wing, and has recalled that it is also 100 years since the former president’s exile. .
“It represents republican values, it represents the commitment to the freedom of Catalonia and to social justice,” he said, adding that the current Government wants to work in that direction.
For this reason, he has defended a Catalonia at the service of all, where everyone “can fully develop their life projects, a Catalonia with social justice and a free Catalonia.”
He recalled that, as a tribute to Macià and the republicans of his generation, the agreement of the Generalitat, the Provincial Council of Lleida and the City Council of Alcarràs (Lleida) to convert the Vallmanya House of this town into a “space of memory” has just been announced. ” dedicated to the former president (it was the family residence of his wife, Eugènia Lamarca, and occasional residence of the Macià-Lamarca family).
“If today we have the Generalitat of Catalonia it is because President Macià proclaimed the Catalan Republic on April 14, 1931,” he said, and he defined it verbatim as a gesture of courage supported by a large electoral majority in favor of the republic and the freedom of Catalonia.