The former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol has claimed this Wednesday a “great mobilization“in favor of the Catalan, who considers that he is in danger and that he sees as decisive for the future of Catalonia.
“I don’t know if everyone is absolutely convinced of this,” he lamented at the presentation of ‘The last conversation. Trobada to Queralbs’ (Editorial Lapislàtzuli) at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, in a book that includes the last conversation he had with the Catalan lover Ko Tazawa.
Besides, pujol He has revealed that he has an unpublished manuscript of about 130 pages on the types of honor, how it is earned and how it is lost: “And how they help you lose it or try to lose it,” he added.
Pujol has assured that Catalan nationalism has never been of an “ethnic” nature, but rather that it is based on “linguistic and cultural” issues, and has expressed that the agreements he reached with the PP and the PSOE were in exchange for “correspondence positive” in relation to the language, and a “coherent” treatment of Catalonia. And he has justified his trips as ‘president’ to see “what was done well in the world”, and he has mentioned, specifically, the case of Japan and Sweden.
Pujol has attended the presentation accompanied by his children Oriol, Josep and Mireia, and among the audience were the ‘ex-consellers’ Jaume Giró and Meritxell Borràs, the Junts deputy in Parliament Glòria Freixa, the mayor of Martorell, Xavier Fonollosa, and the former president of the ANC Elisenda Paluzie, among others.
At the end of the presentation, Pujol explained that the book he is preparing on honor addresses “how honor is won and lost”: “And how they help you lose it, or try to make you lose it. This is something very common “, It has been resolved.
The book
The book includes reflections by Pujol and Tazawa about culture, language, religion and politics at their last meeting, since the Japanese writer was ill and they both knew it would be their last meeting.
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The widow of Tazawa, Yoshiko Tazawaand the president of the IEC, Teresa Cabréwho supervised Ko Tazawa’s thesis –a proposal for a Japanese-Catalan dictionary for Catalan speakers–.
Pujol has praised the determination of the Tazawa couple to learn and study Catalan while being from Japan, but has warned that Catalonia will not be saved “only” through this profile of people. Thus, he has argued that to ensure the future of catalan you have to integrate all the people who come to Catalonia: “Our Catalan nationalism has not been properly ethnic, but has been basically linguistic and cultural”. “I don’t know if everyone is absolutely convinced of this”, he lamented during the presentation at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) of ‘L’última conversa. Trobada a Queralbs ‘(Lapislàtzuli), the book that contains the last conversation he had with Ko Tazawa, who died in 2022.