“No one will silence us”

In the night from Saturday to Sunday was the deputy general secretary, Martha Villalta, the one that experienced first-hand the division in the independence movement, in the Fossar de les Moreres. A few hours later, at the floral offering to Rafael Casanova, the anger, and the boos, of the small public gathered focused on the president of the party, Oriol Junqueras. Both endured with professionalism. Vilalta, on Saturday, paraphrased Ernest Lluc (“Saving all the distances, which are many and enormous and with the utmost respect for” the socialist, clarifies a voice from the party) when he verbally confronted the pro-ETA members who booed him in an act. Vilalta let out a “shout, shout, while we work for the freedom of Catalonia.”

But Junqueras saved his response for his party’s act, in the early afternoon. Almost counterprogramming the ANC demonstration. Happened Oriol Junqueras to Pere Aragonès on the lectern. As president of the party, he has the honor of closing the ERC events. The intervention of the president of the Generalitat had been accompanied by the whistles, boos and horns of a series of demonstrators (neighbors, from the Besos neighborhood), together with some independentista who released that of ‘botiflers!’.

And Junqueras abandoned the sardonic smile, the half words and the understatements to sew a ‘punch on the table’ speech that was enthusiastically welcomed by some bases that have been putting up with carts and carts from the most unilateralist sectors of independence for weeks. A speech-response to the attacks designed, precisely, for that, to raise the morale of the troops and that, due to the reaction of the respectable, they had been waiting for days.

In the background, Junqueras and Aragonès they did the same. Boast of the trajectory of the party, but they divided the temporary space. If the ‘president’ referred to the current social policies and national claimsJunqueras, in the most forceful tone he is reminded of, stuck out his chest ERC’s pedigree as a pro-independence force.

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“We are the heirs of those who defended Catalonia on the Ebro front“, he cried in reference to the civil war, “and of those who fought against the Nazism in France“. “We are the heirs of the last party that was legalized”, a circumstance that the Republican president likes to recall, underlining the implicit message, which is none other than that for the Spanish State it supposed, and supposes, more CKD discomfort than PCE. The before ‘red that rotates’. And he continued: “We are the only ones who voted against the Constitution of 1978″, he asserted, a passive way of saying that the root party of his great opponents of Junts, that is, the CDC/CiU, did support it. “We have never renounced the self-determination of Catalonia and no one will silence us, nor are we afraid of anyone”sentenced Junqueras.

All this was truffled with the list of international achievements achieved thanks, he said, to the action of ERC. The last, the opinion of the Human Rights Commission of the UN itself. The Republican’s conclusion, another dart to the rest: ERC is “the only tool capable of strengthening independence.