The former presidents of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas and the president of Barça, Joan Laporta, have attended this Wednesday the funeral of the mother of the former president Carles Puigdemont, Núria Casamajó Ruiz, who died early on Monday.
The funeral took place in the church of Santa Maria de Amer (Girona), the municipality where Puigdemont was born, which followed the ceremony by videoconference, as explained by Junts sources. In a message on the social network life”.
The president of the Parliament, Anna Erra, the president of Junts, Laura Borràs, the secretary general, Jordi Turull, and the leaders Josep Rius and Albert Batet, close to Puigdemont, also attended the funeral, in addition to the post-convergent spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, and numerous JxCat deputies in the Parliament and the Lower House.
The mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas, of the CUP, has also approached the church of Amer, as has the delegate of the Government of the Generalitat in the province and the Esquerra candidate in that province on May 12, Laia Cañigueral .
When Puigdemont’s father died, in November 2019, there was a tribute and a floral offering in front of the facade of the Palau de la Generalitat. Like this time, the independence leader then followed the funeral by videoconference and said goodbye to his father that way. Yesterday, Monday, at the rally held in Argelers with Maresme militants and sympathizers, there was a minute of silence and a heartfelt tribute in the Jean Carrère space to the former president’s mother.
This Wednesday it is expected that Puigdemont will resume his public agenda in an event in Algiers, in the south of France, with the former convergent mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias.
