In the Junts campaign there is a clear target day in and day out. It is the PSC of Salvador Illa, which is first in the polls and this Saturday is in Madrid, at the meeting of the federal committee of the PSOE, which is being held in Ferraz with the notable absence of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. The President of the Government has canceled his public agenda until Monday, when he will reveal whether he resigns or continues as head of the central Executive, a circumstance that has impacted the Catalan electoral contest like an unexpected meteorite, although it also provides ammunition to the candidates. If the reproaches this Friday to the first secretary of the Catalan socialists were for his time as minister and the “recentralization of powers” during the pandemic, with a management that JxCat called “incompetent”, this Saturday the training has disfigured the socialist candidate that Madrid “prioritizes” attending the PSOE meeting “to receive instructions.”
“We do not need to go to Madrid to receive instructions or to be soaped, nor to put ourselves at the service of any party,” the leader remarked. “The socialist candidate preferred to go to Madrid to receive instructions from the PSOE rather than campaign for Catalonia,” he continued.
“Some try to make us believe that this is about Pedro Sánchez. This is not about the future of the PSOE,” Puigdemont exclaimed. “What have they believed? What do they want?” He asked energetically – with a tone that reminded some of those present at the event of former president Jordi Pujol’s famous tites tites episode. “These elections are about the future of Catalonia. The future of our children is at stake, not that of the PSOE. We will not accept being misled,” continued the former president, who proclaimed that Junts is “the only candidacy capable of resisting truth for the interests of the Catalans in Madrid and in Europe without waiting for anyone’s permission. It is a message that Puigdemont has been sending for weeks. He assures that he can “stand up” before the central government to defend the interests of Catalonia unlike Illa and President Pere Aragonès. “We prioritize the interests of the Catalans,” he assured today.
“We are the only candidate with the capacity to win that guarantees that nothing will come before the interest of the Catalans and the mistreatment that turns us into second-class citizens and that will fight without asking permission so that you become first-class Catalan citizens,” Puigdemont stated.
“Do you want a president in charge of a political franchise, an obedient delegate of the Government of Madrid?” he asked, accusing the socialists of focusing on “saving the furniture of their party.”
Likewise, Puigdemont regretted that the independentists have not received “not even an iota of empathy when they were affected by fake news.” “Where were you, fellow socialists?” He asked them. The general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, has spoken along similar lines. “If what happened to the wife of a certain political leader had happened to your wife or mine, they would tell us that we have to give explanations,” the former minister told the former president in relation to the episode involving the wife of the President of the Government. central.
Turull, who has accused Pere Aragonès’ Government of “lack of leadership” for “not knowing how to organize oppositions”, has also disgraced Illa for being in Madrid today and has accused the PSC leader of not standing up to the central government. “Where is Wally, where is Illa when there are problems in Rodalies?” Turull has also questioned, who has asked “to turn the page on the chaos of Rodalies, the mistreatment of Catalonia, a stopped Mediterranean corridor, converting the airport “El Prat in a Barajas terminal and fiscal plunder.”
In this Saturday’s rally, in the Jean Carrere space in Argelers, which was mainly attended by militants from the metropolitan area of ??Barcelona, ??from the districts of Baix Llobregat and Barcelonés, it has been noted that it is the weekend and the pavilion where JxCat celebrates the electoral events estaba abarrotado – there were 700 people, according to the party -, with signs and stars in equal parts in the public, along with European flags. Before Puigdemont and Turull, some mayors such as deputy Mercé Esteve and members of the list for Barcelona have taken the floor.
