This Tuesday, Junts attacked the first secretary of the PSC and candidate in the Parliamentary elections, Salvador Illa, in the media attention of the post-convergent formation on the occasion of Sant Jordi. In Carles Puigdemont's party they assure that the socialist leader "will not lift a finger to prevent Catalan from being a residual, second-class language" if he becomes the next president of the Generalitat.
This is how the number one of the post-convergent formation for Tarragona and parliamentary spokesperson in the previous legislature, Mònica Sales, has spoken, who together with the president of the Parliament, Anna Erra, has placed the issue of Catalan as a "core" in the next legislature before data on the social use of the language in recent years. "Catalonia needs a Government that defends the language with all the conviction to reverse the emergency of the language," said Sales, who has promised that if JxCat heads the next executive he will place "the protection and promotion of Catalan" a central axis" of his government action.
In turn, Erra has stated that Sant Jordi is a day "to reclaim the" Catalan language and has labeled its situation a "linguistic emergency." "The language is core, the language builds a country, and we need a country in which people can live in Catalan and 100% in Catalan," Erra stressed.
The formation, from its assigned tent on Rambla Catalunya, in Barcelona, has distributed a self-published book with two lectures by Puigdemont. Return-hi. Two speeches for the future of Catalonia, which includes the two speeches that the former president has given in recent months to outline the party's roadmap. That of September, in Brussels, to define the course of the negotiation with the PSOE and that of the Elna City Council in mid-March in which he confirmed his candidacy for the presidency of the Generalitat.
In that book, it has emulated, in appearance, the one published by La Campana in 2019, Reunim-nos. Reflections on the return to unity, although this time, as happens with all Junts' scenography and iconography, the turquoise green that characterized the party has turned into blue.
In the afternoon, the former president presented his book in a videoconference to those who came to the JxCat tent from Strasbourg, where he is attending the plenary session of the European Parliament. In his brief intervention he pointed out that "many alarm lights have gone on" in recent years and he stated that "it is time to address them."
"There are obvious and profound alarms and threats, and if we do not reactivate ourselves and do not get to work, the country could be left in our hands," said the former president, who has cited different areas such as housing, education, health, social services, immigration, culture, bureaucracy drought, security or Catalan language. "It is necessary that we act and that we do it urgently," he continued.
"The language, like the country, can be left in our hands if we do not defend it." "We will not stop until Catalan has the European status it deserves and occupies the central place in Catalan society that some are bothered by it, and that it is the language of integration for newcomers," said the leader of JxCat in relationship with Catalan.
