During a visit to the Abbey of Montserrat, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, stated this afternoon that “the Government of Spain is not committed to going back to the past or to formulas that divided and confronted the Catalans and that led Catalonia to enter a loop that lasted a decade.”

Bolaños, on a four-day visit to Catalonia, has been consulted by the media about how he assesses the battery of questions that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, presented yesterday to the academic council for the clarity agreement.

In this situation, the minister has assured that the Government is committed to “dialogue, to agreements between different parties, for economic opportunities, for employment, for housing, for talking about what interests people and for looking to the past at formulas that, Of course – he qualified – they did not solve anything at all, the other way around”, in reference to the independence process. He has lamented that “what they did was confront Catalan society and take it to the brink of the precipice” in 2017.

Bolaños has assured that tomorrow he will coincide with Aragonès at the opening of the April Fair, where they will exchange a few words, “but we will not have any meeting”, he has clarified.

The minister, with his team, has met with the abbot of Montserrat, Manel Gasch, to learn first-hand about the Mil•lenari project and has made a private visit to the monastery.

Bolaños will attend La Vanguardia’s Sant Jordi festival on Saturday, an event attended by five more ministers: Culture, Miquel Iceta, and Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, on the socialist side, and the second vice president, Yolanda Diaz; the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, and the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, for the purple part. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will also attend.

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