For Junts Secretary General Jordi Turull, Catalan President Pere Aragonès has made the decision to bring forward the elections due to ‘sectarianism and electoral calculation’.
Junts general secretary Jordi Turull opined on Wednesday that former Generalitat president and Junts member Carles Puigdemont could be the party’s candidate for the elections. early elections called for May 12 and who might be in Catalonia before the investiture debate.
This was stated at a press conference in the Catalan Chamber following Aragonès’ announcement to bring forward the elections following the rejection in the plenary of the Generalitat’s 2024 budget project.
According to Turull, the Catalan president made the decision to bring forward the elections due to ‘sectarianism and electoral calculation’.
“We will present the best candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, someone who has the nation in his head and in his heart, not like those who came before us, who perhaps more vocation to be a civil governor or delegate of the Spanish government in Catalonia“, said Turull, who believes it is “a very transcendent moment” for Catalonia.
When asked what the name of the candidate will be, he pointed to the figure of Puigdemont: “Every time they asked me who the JxCat candidate would be, they heard me say who we wanted the JxCat candidate to be “, he said. in an evening allusion to the former Catalan president, who was already present at the 2021 Catalan elections symbolic number one of Juntsalthough the effective candidate was Laura Borràs.
This time, however, JxCat believes that Puigdemont could once again be at the top of the list, no longer symbolically, but with the possibility of being sworn in personally in Parliament, once the amnesty law comes into force, towards late May or early June.
“Everyone knows who we want the JxCat candidate to be,” said Turull, confident that Puigdemont will have the legal permission to run: “Definitely yes”he said, although “we have seen the Spanish justice do everything.”
According to Turull, Aragonès chose the May 12 date to unseat its former JxCat partners, but “perhaps this calculation could go wrong.”
Source: EITB
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