Junts per Catalunya is activated to react to the change of color that occurred in the Generalitat. Just the day that advisors of Salvador Illa has taken officeJunts general secretary Jordi Turull called the party leadership on Monday to announce that the party congress is scheduled for next autumn. The congress is the most relevant event to define the party's roadmap. The JxCat regulations provide that it should be held every four years and, in theory, it was to take place in 2026. At the last congress, held in June 2022 in Argelès-sur-Mer (southern France), Laura Borràs won the presidency and Turull remained with the general secretary. Borràs' power is gradually diminishing, especially since his judicial conviction for breach of public contracts for the benefit of one of his acquaintances. The arrival of the PSC in government, thanks to an agreement with the ERC, motivates Junts to rethink the way it approaches its role as opposition in Catalonia. Another pending issue is that of determining what functions Carles Puigdemont will assume, after his new escapade in Belgium. Puigdemont is the undisputed leader of the party but does not occupy any organic position in the structure of the Junts.
Turull called a telematic meeting of the executive on Monday, where he stressed the advisability of calling a congress without delay. As revealed The National, The date chosen is the end of October, to coincide with the anniversary of the approval of the DUI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence), voted on October 27, 2017 in Parliament.
The call for the JxCat congress comes on the day of the inauguration of the advisors who appointed Salvador Illa to his government. On Thursday, the day Parliament voted to swear in Illa, Carles Puigdemont burst into Barcelona to give a brief speech near Parliament, then managed to escape police surveillance and return to Brussels. In 2017, Puigdemont left for Belgium after the 1-O referendum to avoid being brought to justice.
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