In the midst of the self-imposed silence in Junts on the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the only authorized voice is that of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, without an organic position in the formation but the de facto leader of the party. Just one month before the term for the investiture ends and elections are called automatically and six years after the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the Parliament, Puigdemont has warned that Junts will not renounce independence in a message with reproaches to those who "make an effort to back down", in an apparent allusion to ERC.
After recalling that the Parliament is "the legitimate representative of the people of Catalonia" and that it was "based on that legitimation and the results of the referendum of October 1" that the Parliament "proclaimed the independence of Catalonia", Puigdemont pointed out that "we have neither given up nor will we give up on it" on his X account, formerly Twitter.
But Puigdemont's message does not end here and he vindicates the proclamation of independence "no matter how many difficulties there are and no matter how many efforts some make to back out," in a more than likely allusion to Esquerra. "For six years we have preserved it from the amnesiac or devaluing drive of some," insists Puigdemont.
"We have claimed it, we have translated it into 25 languages and we keep it alive so that the independence movement as a whole knows how to come together in a single strategy, overcoming partisan temptations," says the former president, who calls on the independence movement to "make sure that everything we do do not involve renunciations or deconstruct what we began to build six years ago, even though to some it seems little and to others it seems too much.
On October 27, six years ago, after several days of pressure and internal debates, the pro-independence forces approved the unilateral declaration of independence in Parliament, when Puigdemont himself was expected to call elections. In practice, the DUI never had real effects but it led Mariano Rajoy's government to apply article 155 of the Constitution to suspend, for the first time, the autonomy of a community.
Coincident or not, the message from the now MEP comes a few hours after the Minister of the Presidency and main negotiator for the PSOE, Félix Bolaños, alluded yesterday to the negotiations with Junts at an event with Catalan businessmen in Sant Cugat del Vallès by ensuring that "a new stage is opening" with "a search for agreements between different parties."
