The ‘ex-president’ of the Generalitat Carlos Puigdemont has defended this Tuesday possible pacts in town halls who respects the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, in which he sees “a red line to delimit who you can understand and who you can’t”.
This has been stated in a note on Twitter as a result of the controversy over whether Junts will finally lend its votes in Ripoll (Girona) so that a government made up of ERC, PSC and CUP unseat the far-right party Catalan Alliancethe winning party in the 28-M elections.
“Maybe that at the time of agreeing to start here: for ratifying and respecting the Charter. The Europe in which I want to live is the one of these Fundamental rights. Everyone, not just the one who protects the right to security or private property,” he stressed.
Thus, it has requested that articles such as 21 must also be respected, which prohibits “all discrimination based on sex, race, color, ethnic or social origins, genetic characteristics, language, religion or convictions, political opinions or of any other type , membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation”.
“Municipalities have an essential responsibility in the dissemination and protection of these principles. Talking to its citizens about what these rights represent and demanding their respect seems to me to be an increasingly priority function “, she added.
The alternative is “hell”
In his opinion, no model of life that threatens fundamental rights is tolerable and he has asked to combat it within the framework of these same rights: “It is difficult and sometimes full of contradictions, but the only alternative to this is hell.”
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According to Puigdemont, thanks to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, useful questions have been opened for the defense of Catalonia and to be able to deal with issues such as “violations” of linguistic rights.
“Schools teach but the street also educates. Ensuring security and coexistence is ensuring fundamental rights, as is ensuring that each one can profess their beliefs,” he has settled.