New event in honor of Jordi Pujol. The senior staff of the old CiU paid tribute this Friday to the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol, whom they have claimed as “father of the modern Catalan nation.” In memory of those times when Pujol harangued his people, the former president has taken the floor to ensure that Catalonia “will not be independent” neither now nor in 15 years.
The former president’s confession of his fortune hidden in Andorra for four decades (which will be judged within a year) and the Convergència corruption cases contributed to putting an end to the nationalist coalition founded by Pujol. For 20 years, CiU was a machine for winning elections in Catalonia and a key hinge party in the stability of the PSOE and PP governments.
Times have changed, but not that much. At this Friday’s event, numerous leaders of the defunct CiU, such as Artur Mas, Núria de Gispert, Xavier Trias and Felip Puig, but also some prominent members of Junts, such as the deputy to the general secretary, David Saldoni, the former Minister of Economy Jaume Giró or the spokesperson for Junts in the Senate, Eduard Pujol, in addition to the former secretary general Jordi Sànchez.
The commemoration came days after the 50th anniversary of the founding of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), on November 17, 1974 in Montserrat (Barcelona). Under the name ‘There is Country’, it has been organized by the Associació d’Amics d’Enric Prat de la Riba.
At the end of the tribute ceremony, Pujol spoke in a speech that lasted more than half an hour, and in which he said that “it would have been worth maintaining Convergència.”
The party’s way of survival, Pujol pointed out, was to be “able to overcome a trauma”, for which he said he felt “responsible”, and for the rest of the party to “move forward”: “That could be saved”, he said. indicated.
“This hasn’t gone well like this, but there’s still time, all of you. You have to continue, to the extent that you can, maintaining everything we did, and that policy,” indicated the former president.
According to Pujol, at the age of 19 he already told his friend Pere Figuera, who was very pro-independence, that it would not be possible: “This can hardly be said now. Now something more can be said because it has been seen in recent years that this issue of independence is very difficult.”
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