This Thursday, Carles Puigdemont held the last rally of the electoral contest at the Jean Carrère space in Argelers, in the south of France, and he did so as if he were at home, accompanied by supporters and cadres from his party in Girona, who packed him the pavilion –with 1,400 people, according to the party–. As happened in the central event a few days ago, there have been many people who have followed the interventions from abroad. Tomorrow, Friday, the former Catalan president will put the final touch on the campaign in Elna, in the old schools, in the same town where he confirmed in mid-March that he would be the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Junts and where They presented the candidates for the formation at the beginning of April.
At today’s rally, the post-convergent candidate referred to the economic news of the day and called BBVA’s hostile takeover of Banc Sabadell a “banking 155” which, according to the post-convergent leader, has the endorsement of the central Executive. “BBVA’s hostile takeover is a banking 155 that can only go ahead because it has the support of the central government,” said Puigdemont, who recalled that last week, when the offer for a merger was made at Moncloa, they did not oppose it. and they spoke of “good news” to have “solid” entities.
According to Puigdemont, this change of opinion by the Government has to do with the Catalan electoral campaign and he has warned that if Junts does not win on Sunday, on Monday there may be another change of opinion by Moncloa.
Earlier in the day, the leader of Junts had already opposed the operation. “It must be answered with all the force, with all the right and with all the reason,” said the former president, who has warned about a “strategy to liquidate Catalan banking activity” and who has stressed that this to the detriment of the citizens. “It harms users and harms the country,” he said.
At today’s event, in front of his parish, Puigdemont called for “a mobilization of Champions”, in reference to his city’s team and assured that on Sunday they will win the elections, but he asked for this that everyone go to vote and that the independence vote concentrates on his candidacy. “Let’s not distribute eggs in several baskets because we need one basket to be very full of eggs to stand up,” he said in that sense. “You need a lot of eggs in one basket,” he added.
Likewise, at the beginning of the rally, he assured abroad that on Sunday they will remain the first force, as he already pointed out last Saturday in the central event. Today’s session started late because there were police controls at the border that delayed some of the buses and the number two of JxCat for Girona, Carme Renedo, who has warned the socialists that Junts can overthrow the central government and withdraw its support. “if you confuse negotiation with dialogue.”
The candidate for that constituency, Salvador Vergés, who has emerged in this campaign as a very rallying and energetic candidate, has assured a representation of the farmers and ranchers who protested in Barcelona a few weeks ago that they were at today’s event and that They met with the former president before the rally, and Junts endorses the commitments assumed by the Pere Aragonès Executive with the sector. Vergés was the visible face of the first sector in the Parliament in the last legislature.
Vergés, in addition, has changed one of the slogans of the independence movement about “les molles i el pa sencer” (the crumbs and the whole bread) to reclaim the oven and the bakery and has assured that they will fight so that the bread, the money of the “ fiscal plunder”, return to Catalonia while they don’t have the bakery.
At today’s rally, Puigdemont’s number two in Barcelona, ??Anna Navarro, was also present, although she did not speak. Also there was the former president of the Parliament, Núria de Gispert, who is a member of Democrats of Catalonia, a formation that competes with Junts en coalition.
