The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, will attend the September Eleventh Day demonstration next Monday, unlike what he did last year. Aragonès announced it this morning in an interview on TV3 in which he already justified his change of position in that the scenario is now "different" and that he is very focused on pressuring the central government to achieve amnesty and self-determination.
In 2022, shortly before Junts left the Government, Aragonès refused to attend the ANC march on the grounds that it was a demonstration "against political parties and institutions, and not against the Spanish State, which delves into the divergences of the independence movement".
"My intention is to participate in the Diada demonstration", the president announced this Monday, adding that there will be the ANC, Òmnium, the Association of Municipalities for Independence and many other entities. "You have to look ahead. There is an opportunity to move forward," he argued after his absence last year.
In another order of things, the president of the Generalitat has opted to, among other issues, obtain an amnesty on the cases arising from the process in exchange for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez that included his predecessor in office Carles Puigdemont but not the ex-president of the Parliament Laura Borràs.
"Puigdemont obviously must be included", Aragonès has ruled, for whom the day he can return "it will be a pleasure to receive him in Palau as it was done with the prisoners". However, the president has indicated that the amnesty does not include people but facts, for which reason he has considered that Borràs should not be included in the measure, since the facts for which she was convicted by the TSJC have nothing to do with the 1-O.
In any case, Aragonès has asked Junts, the party of Puigdemont and Borràs, to coordinate the negotiations for the investiture of Sánchez because "there is the possibility that Catalonia will win a lot and win what it deserves" and has reiterated the conditions that it sets Esquerra: end the repression with an amnesty, agree on the right to decide for the Catalans and measures that improve the well-being of the people, among which he has cited ending the fiscal deficit suffered by Catalonia and the complete transfer of Rodalies to end the problems with the service.
The president has shown himself willing for the negotiation to be "coincident and coordinated" with Junts because if we coordinate we will achieve more things, since "the effects are multiplied", and he has shown himself convinced that this will be the case: "We agree on the objectives and if we agree on the objectives we will agree on the path."
Aragonès has also addressed the acting President of the Government and leader of the PSOE to remind him that it is he who must move on the issues raised by the independence movement "to win the votes" and "must respond to the clamor of Catalan society". Likewise, the president of the Generalitat has disagreed with his predecessor José Montilla, who in an interview published this Monday warns that whoever talks about amnesty has to say that he will not do it again. For Aragonès in Catalonia "there is a cross-sectional majority that wants to vote" on its future and "the Spanish State refuses to do so and when it does there is repression", so he sees it as "essential" to address the underlying conflict that, in his opinion , is the will to decide of the people of Catalonia.
The president has considered the debate that has been opened on whether the amnesty that can be negotiated should include the police and civil guards prosecuted for the 1-O charges as "poorly focused" and has asked to focus on those affected. "Who has been in jail, who has been in exile, whose assets have been seized?" he asked ironically: "Any police officer, prosecutor or judge who has gone too far?" "Let's not get distracted." ", has warned Aragonès, who has made it clear that the repression suffered by the independentists cannot be compared to the cases that have been opened against police officers with "many difficulties."
