The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas announced this Wednesday that he will vote for Junts’ candidate, Carles Puigdemont, in these parliamentary elections: “I will vote for Puigdemont and I will vote for Junts”. In this way, Mas entered the campaign this Wednesday at a JxCat event in Vilassar de Mar (Maresme), in which the general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, also participated.
It is the first time that Mas has made public his support for Carles Puigdemont in these elections: a day before the start of the campaign, the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol announced at an event in Martorell (Baix Llobregat) that he will vote for Junts’ candidate.
“I do not want another tripartite in Catalonia nor do I want a president of the Generalitat like the current mayor of Barcelona who comes with the votes of the PP. Since I do not want any of this, I know that I will vote for Junts and that I have to vote for president Puigdemont,” he assured. .
Mas has explained that he will vote for Puigdemont because he wants “a president free of dependencies” and “a Government that knows how to negotiate face to face with the Spanish governments.” The former president of the Generalitat has called to “take advantage of the current conditions” in Congress to “get all the juice possible.” “I don’t know if the issue of the referendum will be possible. But getting all the juice possible for the people of Catalonia day by day is possible. If we don’t achieve it now it will be difficult for us to achieve it in the future,” he assured.
Mas has also attacked the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, for his opposition to self-financing for Catalonia, an economic agreement that the socialists in Euskadi do defend.
The former president has warned that if Catalonia does not manage to manage all its taxes, autonomy “will be a shoddy autonomy because someone who does not control taxes cannot be autonomous, much less sovereign.”
For his part, Turull thanked Mas for his support of Puigdemont and said that comparing the Junts candidate with Illa “is like comparing the Radetzky March with María Jesús and her accordion and the little birds.” Furthermore, he has warned that the Generalitat “is not the headquarters of an agency, but of a nation”, and has accused Illa of wanting to turn it into this with her “obedient” character.
Some of the candidates from the Maresme region who are on the 12M JxCat lists also participated in the rally, such as Judith Toronjo (8), Laura Martínez (20) or Josep Grima (74), in addition to the general secretary of the JNC, Ariadna Urroz.
Grima, who is also deputy mayor in Calella, has opted to address the problem of multiple recidivism so that the extreme right does not treat the issue “in a populist way”, and has warned that “not facing debates is a way of fueling extreme right”.
