Carles Puigdemont refuses to consider him dead process. Even though he admits that “A new political stage” has opened in Catalonia with Salvador Illa at the head of the Generalitat, which “is the result of legitimate decisions”. He said it himself. former presidenthas once again fled Spanish justice, through an eight-minute video published on the social network via a digital message. In the same video, he attacks the ERC, which, according to him, chose to “accommodate”; against the Mossos, for having set up a device to try to arrest him at the gates of Parliament, while he was on the run; and against Spanish justice.
The reasoning that the former Catalan president is now using is that the process will end with independence. Yes, okay, has no choice but to assume that after the regional elections of May 12, during which the independence movement lost its parliamentary majority, “a phase has ended. A phase in which, in recent years, we have aligned, on the one hand, organized civil society [en referencia a la Asamblea Nacional Catalana y Òmnium Cultural] and, on the other, the political forces of the independence spectrum,” he added.
Now, Puigdemont continues, “a new stage is opening, in different conditions.” And it is here that he takes the opportunity to attack the ERC harshly, but not openly: “Faced with this [etapa]Those of us who defend independence must commit to fighting […] “Letting things go and settling in is perhaps the option of some, it is legitimate,” he emphasizes, looking at the camera with a certain mocking air. In these terms, the fugitive politician, who could not be tried by the process On the run, unlike several Esquerra leaders and other colleagues, he implicitly attacks his former collaborators.
In the video, Fugitive politician claims againwho is at his residence in Waterloo. He already did so this Friday around nine in the evening, when he published a message 36 hours after fleeing Barcelona after organizing a rally at the gates of the Parc de la Ciutadella, where the Parliament is located. However, throughout the morning of Saturday, he was not seen leaving the building – the one he and his supporters call the House of the Republic – nor looking out of the windows whose curtains are drawn.
Regarding this escape, by which the former Catalan president did not respect his commitment to be present at the investiture session, he tried to justify it by stating that “from the early morning, the Ministry of the Interior [de la Generalitat] “He had organized a police operation” that would not let him enter Parliament. “That is, to try to prevent me from exercising my political rights, which are fundamental rights,” he attacked, in line with the severe criticism he had launched a few hours earlier against the current Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, and the head of government. Commissioner of Mossos, Eduard Sallent.
Having tried to enter Parliament under these conditions, Puigdemont explains, “would have meant a certain arrest”. “I never intended to surrender myself to a judicial authority that is not competent to prosecute us for having defended the right to self-determination and organised the referendum on independence on 1 October 2017, and, on the other hand, has no interest in rendering justice. What it intends is to engage in politics, which is unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law,” he stressed.
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The speech continues with other score-settling with the ERC and the outgoing Catalan government. After stating that he would not accept an arrest without further delay, he says he is surprised because “in the strategy of judicial rebellion, the collaboration, sometimes enthusiastic, had already run out of time.”