Censorship of magazines in Catalananti-abortionists, deniers of the sexist violence and climate change in institutions, “banalization” of the victims of ETA. The PSC seeks to raise the vote for the socialists, accounting for the cast of leaders behind the municipal authorities who are taking power hand in hand with the PP and Vox pacts. But also pointing out that there is a part of the independence movement that aspires that, with a right-wing government, a breeding ground returns “of mess and confrontation” so that Catalonia “burn again”. It is time, Salvador Illa has proclaimed referring to one and the other, to vindicate “the right to coexistence”.
It is no coincidence that this has been the ‘leitmotif’ of the campaign speech of the Socialists in their main event in Girona, the fiefdom of Carlos Puigdemontone of the great nurseries of the independence vote and the only Catalan capital where there has been unity between CKD, together and CUP to govern and seize the mayoralty from the socialist Silvia Paneque, which was the most voted. Nor is it trivial that, this time, the remastered version of ‘My dear Spain’, by Cecilia, who announces the start of each rally in this PSC campaign, has been discarded.
The PSC now feels muscular where the polarization made them falter and lose steam during moments of full boiling of the ‘procés’. “To go to block, stay at home! Can there be a more short-sighted approach than to go to block?”, snapped the leader of the Catalan socialists in clear reference to Junts. Are electionshas warned van to “stop the mess” that the PP-Vox duo supposes.
Being moderate is not talking softly
PSC leader
“The problem is not only Voxit is an unbearable PP that the only thing it proposes for Catalonia is confrontation”, lamented the PSC candidate, Meritxell Batet. And Illa has finished off warning that nobody be fooled by the envelope of moderation with which the leader of the PP intends to project himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóowhile sealing alliances against the extreme right.
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“Being moderate is not talking softly or make faces. Being moderate is saying ‘no’ to the censorship of Catalan or not agreeing with deniers,” he snapped, in addition to glossing chapters of the PP leader, from his public silence when in the middle of the pandemic he privately asked for a state of alarm for his opposition to the labor reform, the increase in pensions and the minimum wage “They disguise themselves as moderates and they are radicals who take off their mask when they come to power”, added the candidate for Girona, Marc Lamuain addition to letting fall that it is not time to return “neither to 1939” nor “to 2017” as he considers that a part of the independence movement that “aspires” for the right to govern wants.
Message to Puigdemont
Forceful and without contemplation has also been the speech against the popular that Paneque has intoned, whom he has reproached for having converted the murderer of ETA Txapote “in a commercial” and that they represent the “return of repression” against the citizens. She has been the only one who has made direct reference to Puigdemont, although without pronouncing her name, when she has recalled the TGUE ruling that has left the ‘ex-president’ without immunity. “It is not true that European justice amends us or that we live in a hidden dictatorship while there were those who said the days before that the mask of the Spanish State would fall. Everything has been barren and it has only caused pain. The speeches that are not fulfilled must be abandoned “, she has concluded.