The singer-songwriter and independence activist Lluís Llach has resigned from the Consell de la República, a para-institutional body led by Carles Puigdemont from Belgium, for disagreeing with the negotiations of the former president and Junts per Catalunya with the PSOE for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
"I understand that a tool like the seven deputies in Madrid is very important, but at the same time I also see it as dangerous and compromising. But when he (Puigdemont), in some way, becomes the leader of the negotiation, I do not "I feel comfortable and I decide to leave the Consell for this, only for this. I do not feel comfortable with these roles, even though I respect their political initiative," he said this Thursday in statements to Vilaweb.
Llach has indicated that he was in the Consell of the Republic "out of loyalty to the figure of a president in exile, whose name is Carles Puigdemont", although he has pointed out that his decision to negotiate with the PSOE "leaves the Consell in a situation" which generates "many doubts and discomfort."
On the other hand, Llach has praised JxCat's no last week to the amnesty law, in which he "does not believe" and that he hopes that the pro-independence parties will not accept if "there is no amnesty for every last militant." "I would be ashamed," he said about it, and added: "This would be the end, the abyss."
The former Junts pel Sí deputy has also expressed his opposition to the Catalan National Assembly promoting a fourth pro-independence list in the next parliamentary elections: "I greatly appreciate the ANC and I do not want it to become an annex to a future political option. It seems to me that this goes against the deepest meaning of the Assembly," he resolved.
In any case, according to Llach, "no matter what happens at the polls, the civic list would endanger the ANC on all sides," although he believes that this fourth list, which he does not oppose, "has to be done in another way" and not as proposed by the Assembly.
