The former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol has asked this Wednesday for a "great popular and general mobilization" to try to save the Catalan. "For Catalonia it is an absolutely decisive event and at this moment it is again in danger, in a serious danger", warned the former president at the presentation of the book L'ultima conversa. Meeting in Queralbs (Lapislàtzuli)
The former president, as happened a few weeks ago at the Ona bookstore in Barcelona, has packed the Prat de la Riba room at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. The work, which saw the light of day at the end of January, arose from a conversation of more than four hours that Pujol and the Japanese Catalan-phile Ko Tazawa, who died in September, just a few weeks after interviewing the former president, had in the summer.
In the book, the founder of Convergència addresses the situation of the language in Catalonia, and in the act on Wednesday he considered that he does not know "if the whole world is absolutely convinced" of the dangerous situation that Catalan is experiencing. Pujol has detailed the importance of the language due to the fact that Catalanism and Catalan nationalism "has not been properly ethnic." "It has been linguistic and cultural", he has contrasted himself.
In his speech together with the widow of Ko Tazawa, visibly moved when taking the floor and during the act, Pujol referred to the dangers posed by, on the one hand, the political action against Catalan that has come from Spanish politics for a few years , in his opinion, and on the other hand to migratory pressure. In the work, he maintains that these two facts can cause Catalan to become a minority language.
Pujol arrived at the event accompanied by his son Oriol and in the front row were ex-councilors Jaume Giró and Meritxell Borràs or JxCat deputy Glòria Freixa. Among the attendees were other sons of the ex-president, figures close to him such as Carles Duarte, who was general director of broadcasting for the Generalitat, the mayor of Martorell, Xavier Fonollosa, or the ex-deputy of Junts pel Sí Germà Bel. Ecologist Santiago Vilanova was also there.
