Illa, on the possible return of Puigdemont: “We are not going to change our approach, which is for Catalonia to turn the page and open a new era”
The first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, gave an interview this Monday to The Hour of 1on TVE, in which he assessed the possible return of former president Carles Puigdemont to Catalan politics. “We are not going to change our approach. Our approach is that of a Catalonia that turns the page. This Catalonia that wants to open a new time is making its way. Turning the page for us means uniting and serving the Catalans,” said Illa after the former Catalan president announced that this Thursday he will reveal his electoral future at an event at the town hall of Elna (southern France). That is, he will reveal if he is the Junts candidate in the Catalan elections on May 12.
Illa has also attacked the commons for not supporting the budgets agreed by ERC and the PSC – which triggered the electoral call – and has accused them of not having a project. “The best thing now is for Catalans to vote as soon as possible and with their vote mark the future of Catalonia for the next four years,” he said.
The first secretary of the PSC has defended the amnesty law for those prosecuted for the process, which was approved in Congress last week and was sent to the Senate. “I believe that the amnesty law, which is a law for the political and social reconciliation of Catalonia, is an expression of generosity and strength of Spanish democracy, which is a solid democracy, which can be improved like all others, but solid. And it is a commitment to coexistence in Catalonia. Our Constitution does not exclude that positions of independence can be defended, as is well known, but what cannot be done is break the framework of coexistence,” Illa said about the statements by the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, in which He defended the unilateral declaration of independence of October 1, 2017 and the unilateral path.
“There is a desire and a transversal majority in Catalonia that wants to leave behind some years that have been bad for Catalonia and the rest of Spain. And that transversal majority is the one I am addressing,” he added.