Catalan geography has played tricks on the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this weekend. During a speech, the former president of the Xunta de Galicia invented a new Catalan town: Sant Cugat de Llobregat.
“We are on the side of those who believe in the separation of powers, of those who want to keep this old nation united, a 500-year-old nation, we are on the side of those who believe that we all have the same rights, and those who have the same rights have the same rights.” citizens of Sant Cugat de Llobregat than the citizens of Cuzcurrita de Río Tirón”, he emphasized during his speech at the closing of the XVII Congress of the PP of La Rioja.
The problem is that Sant Cugat del Llobregat does not exist. Maybe Feijóo wanted to refer to Sant Cugat del Vallès, a locality that is not part of the Baix Llobregat region and, in fact, seems to be less sociologically and economically compared to the localities bathed by the Llobregat river.
The slip of the PP leader has triggered several reactions through social networks. “Sant Cugat de Llobregat. As a concept,” said the former councilor of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Josep Rull. Alex Montornès, president of the ERC municipal group in Badalona, ??has joked on the subject: “Taking advantage of the fact that the Popular Party governs Badalona, ??I think we should promote twinning between our city and Sant Cugat de Llobregat. Luckily Feijóo did not want to be president,” said the Republican.
The journalist Jofre Llombart, a native of Sant Cugat del Vallès, has recalled a precedent by re-sharing on Twitter a Movistar document in which reference was also made, by mistake, to Sant Cugat de Llobregat.
The former vice president of the Generalitat, Jordi Puignneró, who is also from Sant Cugat del Vallès and in fact is now a councilor in the City Council, has gone further: “To paraphrase Groucho Marx, when you have no idea where Sant Cugat is, “It is better to be silent and appear stupid than to open your mouth and dispel the doubt definitively,” he said.
