The new ‘in pectore’ post-convergence duo promises a “cohesive” party with “all sensitivities”
Launch of the unique and “unitary” candidacy, facing the congress of the June 4 in Algerians (in French Rosselló), as defined by its promoters of Together for Catalonia. The president and the general secretary ‘in pectore’, Laura Borràs and Jordi Turull, have pointed out that a new era is opening in the party, but at the same time, and in case the resignation of Carles Puigdemont to the presidency of the force generated some kind of doubt in someone, they have promised that the figure of the ‘ex-president’, his great electoral value, “continues and will continue to be the reference” Of the information.
The Junts congressional process is divided into two bodies or deadlines, a practice that is spreading and that prevents the always greedy debate of who will fill the positions the discussion of political postulates is carried forward. Thus, on June 4, Carles Puigdemont in person (which is why the congress is being held on French soil) will anoint the new duo directive, with Borràs and Turull.
In parallel, a participatory process is opened that has to give birth, on the weekend of the July 16 and 17, the political, municipal and sectoral presentations that shape the new discourse. It will not be until then when, as Turull explained, the new leadership undertakes debates and decisions that affect, for example, the Government, where the post-convergents occupy 50% of the seats.
“We are serious people and we work rigorously and with data”, explained Borràs, who underlined the importance of the analyzes that are carried out in an internal key of the work of the Executiu led by Pere Aragones in this his first year in office.
“This is a candidacy”, the one led by Borràs and Turull, said the ‘former minister’, “the one that brings together everything, all ideological sensitivities, the entire territorial arc”. A clear reference to the purpose of amending the postconvergents in the face of what has been their weak point and main criticismthe multiplicity of voices“We are not here to manage resignation, but to activate determination, which led us to beat the State on 1-O 2017,” Turull said.
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Borràs, for his part, said that the new leadership reflects the origin of the force, which placed him at the December 21, 2017, that is, in the first elections in which the brand was presented and under which it obtained second place, after Ciudadanos, but the first on the pro-independence side, which facilitated the presidency of the Generalitat.
“We want to offer an image of solvency to move towards independence and, at the same time, be scrupulously obedient to the dictates of the members“, sentenced Borràs.