The president in exile and Junts per Catalunya MEP, Carles Puigdemont, will announce his decision on the Parliament elections
Carles Puigdemont, president in exile and MEP of Junts per Catalunya, will announce this afternoon his decision on whether he will head the Junts list for the parliamentary elections to be held on May 12. The announcement will be made at an event in Elna (Rosselló), in North Catalonia. This decision comes a week after Puigdemont expressed his desire to be able to attend Parliament for the investiture debate, although there are still doubts about whether he will be able to do so due to the need to approve an amnesty and obtain recognition from the justice system to exercise his right. to welcome. Given this scenario and Puigdemont’s imminent announcement, Acció per la República, Moviment d’Esquerres de Catalunya and Reagrupament Independentista have issued a statement proposing a “country candidacy” led by Carles Puigdemont.
Building a broad sovereign front
The objective of this proposal is to form a broad sovereignist front that includes personalities, political forces and civic entities that wish to represent the return of the legitimate president at the head of the highest Catalan institution. The three pro-independence organizations propose that this candidacy present a program of maximum national and democratic demands, as well as a minimum sectoral program that represents a large majority of citizens. This program must defend social justice, the welfare model, sustainable economic progress, language policies and the international presence of Catalonia. Furthermore, the conviction is maintained that independence is the necessary condition for a good government at the service of the real needs of the country.
A call to pro-independence actors
Given this proposal, Acció per la República, Moviment d’Esquerres de Catalunya and Reagrupament Independentista call on the different actors in the pro-independence world to join this initiative and thus collectively complete the path to independence. The importance of the electoral advance, the approval of the amnesty and the negotiation between Junts and the PSOE with an international mediator is highlighted as a unique opportunity for the independence movement to recover the initiative and resume the spirit of October 1 from its own institutions, without renounce unilateralism, in a Spanish state in structural crisis due to the confrontation with Catalonia.
Criticism of the Government of Aragon
Finally, Action for the Republic, Moviment d’Esquerres de Catalunya and Reagrupament Independentista point out that the decision of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, to advance the elections is a direct consequence of the failure of the strategy promoted by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. Republicans are accused of wasting the pro-independence majority in votes and seats, leading Pere Aragonès’s government to an unsustainable parliamentary minority situation.
