The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, claimed yesterday the "huge" legacy left by the former socialist Health Minister Ernest Lluch, assassinated by ETA, a spirit of dialogue that the former leader defended even with the terrorist group, up to its ultimate consequences, which for the leader of the socialist ranks should serve as a lesson for Catalonia.
"He vindicated dialogue in the toughest moments in the Basque Country and this took his life", evoked the opposition leader, recalling the famous scene on June 3, 1999, in the Plaza de la Constitución in San Sebastián, in the that Lluch was hoarse against the escrache that he received from assembled nationalist sympathizers: "Shout more, you scream little, because as long as you scream you will not kill!".
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the death of the former minister, assassinated in the garage of his house in Barcelona. In the PSC's tribute, held yesterday in the Maià de Montcal cemetery (Girona) where the former minister is buried, Illa used his legacy to establish a parallel with current politics, vindicating the dialogue between the Generalitat and the central government as “instrument of democratic politics”.
To dialogue "you have to be willing to listen and not be 100 percent right," he said, while warning against "fear" that can lead to "wanting to break bridges with the rest of Spain," in reference to nationalism. Catalan.
President Pere Aragonès also vindicated the figure of the former minister on Saturday, at the commemorative act of the 20th anniversary of the Ernest Lluch Foundation in Vilassar de Mar (Maresme). "He practiced dialogue even in the most adverse of situations", something that "should spur us to continue finding paths of understanding", he encouraged.
