The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, appeared this Thursday before the Senate and before the parliamentarians and in the presence of the presidents of the autonomous communities of the PP to defend the amnesty and the referendum and he did so by accusing the PP of instrumentalizing the Senate and to Catalonia, as on previous occasions “in the battle between the state parties,” he noted in reference to the PSOE.
In this sense, he stressed that the PP is not interested in Catalonia or the well-being of Catalans: "The PP does not care what Catalonia thinks, to the point that they already assumed that they could talk about Catalonia without the representative of Catalonia," he said. in reference to his presence in the Upper House.
“The amnesty is essential to advance the resolution of the political conflict, to end the exiles, the fines, the espionage, the persecution,” he stressed, in short, “to end the general cause against the independence movement.”
In his opinion, a genuine interest of the Popular Party would be reflected in a respect for the language consensus reached decades ago by Catalan society, or in an interest in resolving “the fiscal deficit of 22,000 million euros,” he said, which prevents the Generalitat to invest what is necessary in the public education and health systems.
In his speech, Aragonès defended the urgency of an amnesty that is not “a final point but a starting point” to redirect the Catalan political conflict to political channels, and also defended the ultimate objective of a self-determination referendum: “We want to vote in an agreed and recognized way,” he said, “in a referendum where all options are possible, a referendum like the one that was held in Scotland.”
