The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, stated this Sunday that “the amnesty, by itself, does not resolve the sovereignty conflict with the State” and that this conflict will exist until Catalonia has a referendum.
Aragonés has said that the amnesty is the “guarantee that no one else will go to prison and that the exiles (sic) will return free”, in the institutional message on the occasion of the September 11 Day, which the Government dedicates into the Catalan language and which was delivered from the headquarters of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC).
“We are forcing the State Government to take decisive steps for amnesty. To assume it as essential and inevitable », he has claimed. He has said that the way forward is to be firm, negotiate and dialogue “to definitively overcome the repression” and lay the foundations so that Catalans can vote on their political future in a referendum, according to him.
To this end, he has defended the union of independentists and reaching a joint proposal: “If we join forces and work together we will have much more strength to take advantage of all the opportunities that open to us.”
Afterwards, Aragonés has proposed immediately starting a new phase of negotiation “focused solely and exclusively on the substance of the conflict.”
A negotiation so that the Government and the Government agree on a path that gives “response to the majority will of the citizens of Catalonia to decide by voting” their political future.
“Keep the language alive”
Aragonés also wanted to emphasize that “more than ever it is necessary to give a new impetus to the Catalan language” because, according to him, it is the pillar of the Catalan nation and an element of social cohesion.
He has said that the official status of Catalan in the European Parliament and its use in Congress would be “a great advance towards the total national recognition of Catalonia.”
“We must be aware that institutional recognition is not enough, that we have the historical responsibility to keep the language alive and we will only do so if we all unite to speak it,” he added.
He has assured that in order to achieve this objective, it is necessary to “strengthen the school in Catalan as a fundamental tool for equity and equal opportunities.”
National day of Catalonia
«Tomorrow we will fill the squares and streets, as we have always done: with all the pride. Valuing everything that unites us. “Everything that defines us as a nation,” said Aragonés, who confirmed his attendance at this year’s mobilizations, after being absent last year.
“We will do so by claiming the desire to continue building, together, a future full of opportunities, prosperity and freedom for all,” he added.
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