Jordi Pujol has advocated “achieving a system that cannot be discussed by the Spanish government”, involving aspects such as language, culture and education, in order to “create a city worth living”, and has pointed out the pact with the government as the way to achieve this.
The former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol recognized this Friday that Catalonia “will never be independent” because Spain “is a very powerful country” and has considered the end of the crisis. Democratic convergence of Catalonia (CDC) as a party.
“Now we can say something more: that has been seen This independence thing is very difficult“, he assured in one tribute after his figure in Castellerterçol (Barcelona) in which numerous leaders of the former CiU (Convergència i Unió) participated, such as the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas, the former mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias or the former councilor and former president of the parliament Núria de Gispert, and that comes two weeks after the 50th anniversary of the CDC.
At the end of his speech, recalling his approach to Catalanism when he was young, Pujol admitted that even as a young man he believed that Catalonia would not be independent, and that this is how he conveyed it at the age of 19. to an independence friend, a statement repeated today and adding that this will not happen again in fifteen years.
‘What we need to achieve is a sufficiently consistent country with autonomy, the country of Enric Prat de la Riba,” said the former president of the Generalitat, who said Catalonia must strive to “save itself.”
In this sense, he pointed out, referring to the pro-independence parties, that they must choose that Catalonia “stays alive during the winter”, because “this issue about Spain is not from the day before yesterday, because I always have this mentality had.”
“What we need to achieve is a system that cannot be discussed by the Spanish government,” and that would entail aspects such as: language, culture and education“to make it ‘a city worth living in,'” added Pujol, who pointed to the pact with the government as the way to achieve this.
During the event, and in front of former CDC leaders such as Mas and former councilor Felip Puig, Jordi Pujol acknowledged that “it would have been worth it” to maintain Convergència and that the party is “capable of overcoming trauma” , that he said he felt “responsible” and was able to “take responsibility”.
“That was salvageable. But then everyone got nervous. I understand. I’m pulling out and you’re disowning me, but you have to keep going. This didn’t go well, but you all still have time. You have to keep going, for as far as possible, while maintaining everything we have done and that policy,” he indicated.
Source: EITB
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