The former councilor and MEP of JxCat Clara Ponsatí announced this Monday the creation of ‘Alhora’, a new independentist political space, alongside Junts, which will be presented in an event at the Teatro Borràs in Barcelona, ??on April 23, coinciding with Saint George’s Day.
This was announced in a message on the social network the European Parliament, alongside Carles Puigdemont and Antoni Comín.
Ponsatí, Minister of Education in the Puigdemont Government in the autumn of 2017, has always been one of the most unilateralist voices of the independence movement, very critical of the decision that was taken then to not stand up to the Government of Mariano Rajoy and defend the unilateral proclamation of independence in Catalonia.
In recent times, Ponsatí has ??also reproached both the ERC Government for its “autonomist” commitment and JxCat for facilitating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
His new political project, baptized with the name Alhora – in Spanish, “at the same time” – was also born from the hand of the philosopher Jordi Graupera, who ran -unsuccessfully- as mayor of Barcelona in the 2019 municipal elections and who is one of the pro-independence opinionators of the wing most favorable to the unitarian path.
“On Sant Jordi’s Day, with Jordi Graupera and others, we will present a political proposal for Catalonia. At the Borràs Theater in Barcelona,” Ponsatí announces in his message to announce the conference he will give together with Graupera on April 23, with the title “Alhora: Roots and Future. A proposal to return solvency and national radicalism to the political agenda.”
On its new website, Alhora argues that “politics in Catalonia has been put at the service of Spanish stability. Incompetence and cynicism are the norm among the political class. But national liberation is not a chimera of dreamers (somiatruites). “Independence is possible. Good government is possible.”
