The figure of Pedro Sánchez, with his absence, has been an eclipse for the parliamentary election campaign on May 12 and Junts, which denounces that there is an electoral maneuver behind the five-day absence of the head of the central Executive, asks a “Catalan response at the polls”.
The general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, was the headliner at the Argelers rally this afternoon due to the absence of former president Carles Puigdemont, whose mother died this morning. The post-convergent leader has dedicated his entire intervention to criticizing the PSOE. “This is about Catalonia,” Turull reiterated today, after Junts has sent that message all these days regarding Sánchez’s situation. “Neither [Salvador] Illa, nor Pedro Sánchez, Catalunya, Catalunya Catalunya, is about that,” he exclaimed.
“The socialists only remember democratic regeneration when there are elections to the Parliament and on top of that they ask us for empathy,” said Turull, who recalled that with Sánchez in the Government they have been spied on with Pegasus. “Of all the process that we went through and suffered, the day after entering prison, when the Parliament paid tribute to our relatives, the PSC turned its back on them,” the former councilor recalled.
“Show, vaudeville, tragicomedy, unworthy electoral artifact and Sánchez’s Sunday afternoon movie with Illa as a supporting actor,” have been some of the adjectives that Turull has dedicated to the absence of the President of the Government during these five days to reflect. . Furthermore, in his speech he made reference to both the GAL and the intervention of the Catalan self-government with article 155 in October 2017. “The President of the Government has had many years to reinforce Spanish democracy and he has done nothing”, continued Turull, who has also had some criticism for Esquerra. The post-convergent has reproached the Republicans for now criticizing the leader of the PSOE when these days, in his opinion, they have supported Sánchez. “Some here told him ‘Peter be strong’ and today they complain that he has teased them. He didn’t tease us,” he stressed.
Albert Batet, director of the campaign and president of the parliamentary group in the previous legislature, was the first to intervene with words of condolence for the former Catalan president and thanked those present who attended the rally on behalf of Puigdemont, who will resume his public agenda next Wednesday in an event with the former convergent mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias. Before starting, there was a minute of silence, with the song of the birds and the flag as a backdrop, and an applause in tribute to the mother of the ex-president, Núria Casamajó.
At today’s rally the pavilion of the Jean Carrère space in Argelers was once again filled with Maresme militants and sympathizers, although there were fewer people than last weekend, when the venue was practically overflowing. The mayor of Cabrera de Mar, Òscar Fernández Cuñado, in an energetic and extended speech, was the first to speak and has openly and unapologetically claimed the figure and legacy of former president Jordi Pujol, who last week, to 24 hours after the official start of the campaign, he expressed his public support for Junts and Puigdemont at an event in Martorell.
Judith Toronjo also participated in the event, who will be Barcelona’s number eight and was already a deputy in the previous legislature and has just become a mother. In her speech she opted for “a president who defends the language, culture, identity and nation.”
The mayors of Maresme de Junts have been in the eye of controversy in the latter for their complaints about multiple recidivism and linking it to immigration. At today’s rally they supported the delegation of powers regarding immigration to the Genealitat and pointed out that it is a complex problem with no easy solutions.
