Puigdemont has explained that he will attend the elections to achieve his “restitution as president”. The former president of the Generalitat has offered to share a unitary list with the ERC. “Six years later, efforts to extradite us and seduce us with a pardon have failed,” he declared.
The former president of the Generalitat and Junts MEP, Carles Puigdemont, announced this in the city on Thursday Elna (Occitania) who will stand as a candidate for the parliamentary elections on May 12. He did this during a conference of the Elna City Council, accompanied by the leadership of the Junts. The former president of the Generalitat has offered to share a unitary list with the ERC.
A thousand people welcomed Puigdemont, shouting ‘president’ and applauding his arrival at city hall. Among those present at the event are the party’s senior staff, led by president Laura Borràs and general secretary Jordi Turull, as well as deputies in parliament and congress, territorial leaders and former councilors Toni Comín and Lluís Puig.
“I’m not a conformist, I don’t like to put myself down, I don’t look for what is most comfortable and least risky on a personal level. And I couldn’t explain, even to myself, that after six having spent months defending the presidency in exile for a year and a half, now that an opportunity arises to enable the return of that presidency unjustly, illegally and unlawfully deposed by 155, I would accept this responsibility for reasons of personal comfort avoid,” said Puigdemont.
Puigdemont has explained that he will attend the Catalan elections to achieve his “restitution as president”, which is why he has decided to resign as part of the European Parliament’s lists. “Six years later, efforts to extradite us and seduce us with a pardon have failed,” he declared. “We must move away from resignation and defeatism and build a shared future,” he added.
Elna radiates special symbolism for the independence movement because of its connection with 1-O, as it was printed there millions of ballots and ballot boxes They hid in a warehouse in a nearby town.
In addition, the municipality has hosted acts of the Council of the Republic (CdRep), led by the former Catalan president, as well as the program organized by Òmnium Cultural to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the entity.
From a historical point of view, at the end of the Civil warHundreds of exiled republican women have given birth at the Elna Maternity Hospital, a center promoted by Swiss nurse Elizabeth Eidenbenz.
Although the amnesty law is not yet in force, the former president can attend the elections as he did in 2021, when he headed the Junts list, accompanied by the president of the party, Laura Borràs, – number two – who was ultimately the party leader . effective candidate.
Puigdemont could therefore repeat himself as a candidate, but the approval of the amnesty law could open the scenario for the possible return of the former president to Catalonia once it comes into force, which, according to several voices, could happen in June or July.
The parties have already begun to accuse the Junts of presenting the trump card of the possible return of Puigdemont as the only one they have to win the elections, aware that this conditions their electoral strategies.
While they wait for the party to explain the campaign they will conduct, it will be difficult for the former president of the Generalitat to campaign in person because the amnesty law has not yet entered into force.
In the event that the former Catalan president were to return before the application was submitted, his possible arrest could shake up the election campaign and distort the election results.
Source: EITB
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