"Illuminate the Pyrenees in favor of the self-determination of peoples". The Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and the Basque sovereign entity Gure Esku are preparing an action on the night of Saturday, July 2, to 3 along the Pyrenees, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The intention is to simultaneously illuminate 301 peaks distributed in Catalonia, Andorra, Aragón, Navarra and Euskadi. A symbolic action with which both associations want to claim the right to self-determination.
"La Via Pirenaica" or "Pirinioetako Bidea", as the action has been baptized, is the large-scale version of three other previous demonstrations, especially "Llum i llibertat", which on the night of September 30 to October 1 of 2019 wanted to pay homage to the 131 presidents of the Generalitat up to that moment by illuminating 131 needles of the Montserrat massif.
There will be 135 peaks in Catalonia, 21 in Andorra, 58 in Aragon, 81 in Navarre and 6 in the Basque Country, in addition to two peaks in Mallorca by the Sovereign Assembly of Mallorca.
The mountain range will be illuminated with headlamps and portable headlamps to claim, as the ANC explains, "the attention of the international community towards a just cause." "In addition, the rejection of the imposed borders, repression and anti-democratic obstacles that seek to prevent the materialization of the democratic will of the Catalan and Basque peoples will be made explicit," they say.
However, the mobilization is not without controversy. Especially for his time in Aragon. President Javier Lambán announced that he would respond, despite the fact that in a recent interview in La Vanguardia he acknowledged that he does not have the power to avoid action. "From the Government of Aragon this is seen with great disgust and displeasure. It claims something that all Aragonese do not share," he argued. In any case, from the ANC they indicate that they have a plan B in case there is some type of impediment to access the sixty Aragonese peaks that the entities plan to illuminate.
The main event will be this Saturday in Guils de Cerdanya. There will be the president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu, and the president of Gure Esku, Amalur Álvarez, in addition to the president of the Federation of Hiking Entities of Catalonia (FEEC), the mayor of Guils de Cerdanya, Josep Mendo, Marc Sellarès, of Artists of the Republic, and Dídac Amat, of Òmnium Cultural, entity that collaborates.
