In his farewell as president of Junts per Catalunya, Carles Puigdemont has harshly charged this Saturday against the central government, against the PSOE for the lack of investment in Catalonia, and has also been critical of the relaxation strategy of his training partner in the Govern, Esquerra Republicana, during his speech at the party's second congress, which is being held today in Argelers, in the French region of Catalunya del Nord.
During his speech, Puigdemont has put on the table issues such as the situation of Catalan or the degree of execution of the State budget in investments in Catalonia, which was known this week and is 36% compared to 184% registered in Madrid . "The principle of reality forces us to do politics based on abnormality. There would be nothing more irresponsible, magical and fanciful than doing politics in normal times in serious times like the ones we have been living in for five years," said the former president, before the recurring accusations of "magical independence" that are planned over his space by Esquerra.
"Some settle in normality, reconciliation and a pacification that allows them to get along if they want to strengthen a party and prioritize the well-being of its cadres. But it has catastrophic consequences for citizens," Puigdemont warned, referring to the Republican strategy , without mentioning it in any case.
But those have not been the only veiled jabs at Republicans. After his spokesman in Madrid, Gabriel Rufián, told the president of the United We Can group in Congress, Jaume Asens, to stop going to Waterloo a few days ago, today Puigdemont pointed out that "it is not normal that we have spent four years and half going back and forth from Brussels, from Geneva, from Waterloo and wherever". "What is not normal is having to go visit someone in Waterloo. What is normal and decent is to visit him so that he does not feel alone, so that he feels well accompanied," he stressed.
Likewise, in his appearance he has accused the Government of Pedro Sánchez of "political corruption" and of blackmailing through investment. "Until you vote well, there will be no money," he asserted.
"It is not normal, that in the Spanish Government, whatever year it is, lies and systematically fails to comply with the citizens of the State that it considers second or third. It punishes all of us Catalans because we maintained the pro-independence majority. It is doing the campaign in a dirty way to Mr. Illa. As long as we don't vote for the right candidate, they won't give us the treatment we deserve," Puigdemont lamented. "Damn, that's fine!" He exclaimed, just after raising a loud applause.
Regarding the Junts affairs, of which the former president has only dealt with when it has been essential or he had to go out to put order, Puigdemont has asked the new management this Saturday to preserve the foundational "project and purposes" of the match. "Make sure that Junts is the same project, with the same purposes. We must never lose that north. In the midst of so much confusion and resignation, Junts must be able to recognize us in the Government or in the opposition as the political tool that remains committed and useful to launch the independence process", requested the former president of the Generalitat.
"The lever of change is Junts because it proposes to govern starting from the abnormal reality and it must continue to be so", has summed up the until now maximum referent of Junts.
Also Jordi Sànchez, who, like Puigdemont, is saying goodbye to the party's leadership and leaving the general secretary today, has pointed out that it is a "continuous and permanent humiliation" of the central government "the systematic breach of the pacts". "It is enough that Catalonia remains behind in public investment and that it does not even reach half of the planned investment while others double it", he snapped. In this sense, he has denounced that there is a "systematic will to impoverish Catalonia and deprive it of options to be a competitive country". "Enough of unfulfilled promises, of a dialogue that does not take place, there are no objective conditions to resolve political conflict," he has sentenced. "With the current conditions there is no possibility of dialogue. The only dialogue is that of Pegasus"; The also former president of the Catalan National Assembly has settled.
In his speech, in another order of things, he advocated for Junts to have institutional responsibilities and for it to work so that the majority of municipalities are governed by JxCat, and for recovering the strategic unity to re-launch the mobilizations, because, in his opinion , to this day the majority of the 52% that was obtained in the 2021 Parliamentary elections has not "not yet seen any transcendent decision".
