The former president of the Generalitat and Junts candidate, Carles Puigdemont, claims his “ability to say no” to the president of the central government, Pedro Sánchez, and assures that his training has not come to refloat the PSOE.
“Catalonia cannot be the float of the PSOE”, he assured in an event with Catalan mayors in Els Banys-Palalda (in the French toponymy, Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda).
Puigdemont remarked that “no one has the ability to say ‘no'” to Sánchez as Junts has, with reference to their power to condition the approval of the State’s general budgets.
“Faced with a Spanish budget that does not correct the deficit, that does not correct the non-compliance and only gives words, we will vote no”, he said.
In this sense, he assured that they cannot be complicit in a financing that, in his opinion, is not only unfair, but is “truly a spoil, a hair-raising act”.
The general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, also participated in this event with the local world of Junts; the leaders of the list for the four provinces, Mònica Sales, Salvador Vergés and Jeannine Abella, and the number three candidate, Josep Rull, as well as the leader of Junts at Barcelona City Council, Xavier Trias.
In his speech, Puigdemont criticized that the main interest of the PSOE is to “save the party”, which, in his opinion, is collapsing.
The Junts candidate criticized the fact that the first secretary of the PSC and candidate for the Catalan elections, Salvador Illa, has allowed them to take “the money out of the pockets of the Catalans and literally put it in the pockets of the people of Madrid”.
“The PSOE has a fantastic business with Illa de president”, opined the former president, who also criticized his management as Minister of Health during the pandemic.
Puigdemont stated that no one should give them “any lessons on what it means to know how to manage” and stated that it is necessary to develop management “from below”.
For his part, Jordi Turull defended that the 12-M elections “are not about the party, but about the country” and affirmed that what Catalonia needs is the best leadership, which goes through Puigdemont.
In this sense, Turull pointed out that the next president of the Generalitat must be someone who does not hide the problems or who only solves them “by passing the hot potato to the councils”. “Enough is enough of a Government of the Generalitat that gets rid of the problems”, concluded Turull.
