The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had been alone for lower than a minute whereas they awaited the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron on the Spanish-French Summit on the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona.
60 seconds have been sufficient for Aragonès to make it clear to Sánchez that “the independence course of has not completed”. by letter, such because the reopening of border crossings, the official standing of Catalan and vitality and infrastructure points.
Aragonès has complied with the protocol by receiving the French president, however for the time being during which honors had been paid and a overview was held, the Catalan president, profiting from the truth that his automotive was strategically parked close by, left the realm earlier than the Spanish and Spanish anthems had been heard. French.
In a subsequent press convention, the Catalan president reiterated what he informed Pedro Sánchez, that the “procès has not completed” and has slipped that Moncloa is disengaging however that this isn’t the answer: “You can take a look at one other facet however this doesn’t remove the battle. The finest answer is a referendum acknowledged by all events”.
“You can look the opposite method however this doesn’t remove the battle. The finest answer is a referendum acknowledged by all events” (Pere Aragonès, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia)
In addition, in that very same look he revealed that he has insisted on Emmanuel Macron that Catalonia defends its proper to take part “absolutely within the European establishments, with its personal voice and as yet one more state”. Aragonès has claimed that he ought to attend the assembly however has additionally underlined his discomfort with Moncloa with that rudeness when he left with out ending the honors for Macron.
Parallel to the reception, there was a pro-independence rally –with 6,500 attendees in response to the Urban Police and 30,000 in response to Òmnium– below the slogan ‘Nothing has completed right here’ and known as by the sovereignist entities. Demonstration that the president of ERC Oriol Junqueras needed to abandon when he was booed between shouts of ‘traitor’.