2024-03-21 20:39:44
Carles Puigdemont has already announced his candidacy for the Catalan elections: “I am a member of the European Parliament and I showed my interest in running again, but when it comes to Catalonia I am not a non-conformist… I am not resigned after exile, now that we have the opportunity I will not It would make sense to resign for personal reasons, so I am running for the Catalan elections,” said the former president of the Generalitat in his appearance from Elna.
In this way, Puigdemont has revealed all the unknowns. Junts leaders had raised expectations about his candidacy for Parliament in recent days. In the ranks of JxCat it was assumed that Puigdemont would be their candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat next March 12, and this was implied by the party’s own secretary general, Jordi Turull, last Wednesday, shortly after the Catalan president , Pere Aragonès, will proclaim the electoral advance.
The senior staff of JxCat traveled to Elna this Thursday to support Puigdemont in his decision, as they had communicated on social networks with the message “See you in Elna.”
This has been the appearance of Carles Puigdemont
“A week ago I didn’t expect to be here. We are at home in northern Catalonia. I can prove it for a long time. Working a lot in these lands. Elna especially makes us feel very comfortable because of the republican welcome,” the former president of the Generalitat.
Puigdemont pointed out from the beginning in his speech the importance of the upcoming electoral events: “two important events: May 12 and June 9 to elect members of the European Parliament. Two very important elections where the future of our threatened nation will be decided. To encourage participation I think the two elections could have gone together and set an example,” he explained.
“Aragones has considered doing it differently. Now an unforeseen schedule. It forces us to make important decisions in a very short time.”
Independence process in Catalonia
The already candidate Carles Puigdemont has promised to successfully complete the independence process in Catalonia. In this way, he has announced that this Thursday the countdown begins for his return.
Puigdemont’s candidacy for the presidency of the Generalitat implies his intention to return in June or July, when the investiture plenary session takes place in the parliament of Catalonia. Despite this, what is not so clear is that by then it will be clear that Puigdemont can return to Spain without being arrested.
ERC in Puigdemont
ERC has declined the proposal for a unitary list launched this Thursday by Carles Puigdemont: “After Junts abandoning the ‘Govern of 52%’ or voting against the most social budgets in the history of this country, proposing a single list in the midst of reproaches is repeating past mistakes. This has been specified by ERC sources after the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont announced this Thursday that he will run in the May 12 elections to the Parliament.
From ERC they think that “there are spaces to rebuild bridges”, while they assure that they will be “delighted” to be able to do so, although they ask JxCat to “give support” to the proposal for “singular financing” for Catalonia proposed by the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès: “if they really want to rebuild unity of action, they should begin by joining this proposal.”
In the same way, ERC celebrates that “the pro-independence center-right already has a candidate, who is now also betting on the agreed referendum and that it is Carles Puigdemont who once again heads the list for the third time.” “We wish him the best and that the independence movement can achieve a good result,” they highlighted.
Elna
Sources close to the former president have highlighted that Elna was a host country for Catalan exiles after the Civil War and, in addition, it was the first municipality in Catalonia North to officially recognize the right to use Catalan in the municipal council.
The mayor of the town, Nicolas Garcia, welcomed Puigdemont’s conference.
The setting would not have been chosen at random: the French town of Elna, in the so-called Catalunya Nord, played a key role in the exile after the Civil War. In addition, a few years later it housed the polls for the 1-O referendum.
Although the polls show a technical tie between ERC and JxCat in their fight for second place, Junts are convinced that Puigdemont’s candidacy would allow Salvador Illa to compete for first place, whom the polls show as the winner of the 12M.
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