The sovereignist president charges against the current “state of repression” and accuses those of Aragonès of only seeking charges
Paradoxes of politics: Carles Puigdemont makes one of his most intense speeches at the time of his farewell. Dismissal from a position but not from authority because in barely 20 minutes, the former president has launched a unequivocal combative message: neither to speak of pactist or complacent views regarding the State, nor to speak of buying the ERC strategy (which he has defined as “qui dia passa anys empeny”, that is, complacent) but rather it is time to continue denouncing what he has described as a frontal attack of a state that according to Puigdemont is legally and morally corrupt, that works with the media and the courts to reduce the Catalan language and consider the Catalan third-class citizens.
Puigdemont has put the 900 delegates of the Junts congress in his pocket from minute one thanks to an infallible tactic: attack Esquerra and charge against any approach to the Government, any Government. He has chosen the Republican Gabriel Rufián, who dared to affirm that it is not necessary to go to Waterloo so much (where Puigdemont has his residence). “What is not normal is having to go visit someone in Waterloo, what is normal and decent is to visit him so that he does not feel aloneso that you feel well accompanied”, he cried out, achieving the first of several ovations.
From there, the entire speech has been a combative hammer against a “state of repression that has not stopped accelerating since this unfortunate speech by the king on October 3, in which he gave the green light to repression.” And he has described all Spanish governments as liars because “they will always consider us second-class or third-class citizens” and sick of “political and moral corruption.” He has set an example espionage, Catalan and non-compliance with investments in Catalonia compared to what is invested in Madrid. “Collons, ja està bé!” she has come to expect. Delegates have stood up on numerous occasions.
Attack on ERC for thinking only about his charges
All to give a single and unequivocal message to the new leadership of the party: not to mention taking steps back to get closer to Esquerra, because ERC is according to Puigdemont – who has not mentioned them at any time – the party that seeks a “false normality” or “reconciliation, pacification”. Moreover, he has accused the Republicans of “prioritize the well-being of their cadres“ when this, he assures, has catastrophic consequences for the citizens” for not recognizing “the principle of reality”. Of course, without ceasing to govern the Generalitat.
Govern yes, but “deploy” independence
The speech had a clear and unique objective: to entrust the new leadership to maintain the objective of “deploying” the declaration of independence of October 27, 2017 despite what it has recognized as a context of “confusions, renunciations, discouragement”. To this end, he has asked that Junts – whom he has described as the authentic adversary of the State – be recognized as a force that, whether in the government or the opposition, remains “serenely committed” to culminate independence. In short, the objective is none other than to attempt independence hegemony. Against the state, yes. But above all against the Esquerra Republicana.