“We socialists do not come to dismantle, but to build on what has been achieved“, he said during the event, held in the Casal Socialista Joan Reventós in Barcelona. Illa stated that the PSC's priority is “a good agreement, a solid agreement, which offers stability and perspective in Catalonia, and not an agreement to dismantle something.” With this list of reasons, he called on the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the Comuns to find common ground with the socialists and literally look for what unites them to build a majority of progress and stop political formations like Vox Aliança Catalana in the Parliament of Catalonia. “We do not ask anyone to give up their approaches and political objectives, nor will we give up ours,” he warned.
On the other hand, the Secretary of the PVC proposed to the National Council party leadership are the one who will assess the decisions on possible agreements with ERC and Comuns. “We ask the National Council, by supporting this proposed resolution, to authorize the party executive so that, when the time comes that we hope will come, these agreements, whenever that may be, can be ratified,” he explained.
Attack on Donald Trump
In turn, Illa took the opportunity to attack on the former President of the United States and a candidate for re-election, Donald TrumpSaturday afternoon ago in Pennsylvania. “We share almost nothing of his political project, but we condemn an act of unbearable violence“as we condemn and have condemned all the violence that has occurred, for example, in the last European elections,” he claimed. A condemnation that was also supported by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, through his profile in X.
“I want to express my strongest condemnation of Donald Trump's attack during a rally in Pennsylvania. Violence and hatred have no place in a democracy. “My best wishes for a speedy recovery to former President Trump and the rest of the injured and my most sincere condolences to the family of the deceased,” Sánchez wrote.
I want to express my strongest condemnation of the attack that Donald Trump suffered at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Violence and hatred have no place in a democracy.
My best wishes for a speedy recovery to former President Trump and the rest of the injured and my most sincere…
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) July 14, 2024
Trump was that shot multiple times by a gunman who was killed shortly after the assassination attempt. Not a single bullet hit the Republican completely: only one of the projectiles hit him, barely hitting his ear and causing a small wound.
Marta Rovira's return to Spain
In another vein, Illa also referred to the return to Spain of ERC General Secretary Marta Roviraafter living in Switzerland for six years, and other leaders and activists after the application of the amnesty law.”This is what we Catalan socialists want: all political actors in Catalonia have“, he added, asking the judiciary to respect the decision-making space of the legislature.
It should be noted that the return of the Secretary General of the Republicans is the result of a Judge García Castellón's error caused the investigation deadlines to expire, after which the case was filed.
